Nijmegen University appoints Danny Busch as professor of financial law 

Dr.  D. (Danny) Busch (35) has been appointed professor of financial law at Nijmegen University from 1 February 2010.

Danny Busch was born in Heidelberg, Germany. In 1997 he graduated cum laude in Dutch law at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. In the following year he obtained a Magister Juris degree in European and Comparative Law at Oxford University (St. John’s College). From 1998 to 2001 he worked as a lecturer and researcher at the Molengraaff Institute of Private Law in Utrecht and conducted research for his dissertation in Oxford and Hamburg. In 2002 he defended his dissertation Indirect Representation in European Contract Law at Utrecht University. 

Dr. Busch will continue to practice law at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek NV in Amsterdam, with a focus on banking and securities law and patrimonial law.

Dr. Busch has been a senior research fellow at Nijmegen University since 2008. He has also been a lecturer and course organiser for several post-academic courses. He is a member of the editorial board of Kluwer’s Law and Practice - Financial Law series and chief editor of a loose-leaf commentary on the Dutch Financial Supervision Act. He has also advised the Court of Audit on financial supervision issues.

In Nijmegen, professor Busch will continue to teach and do research on financial law, also seen from a European and comparative law perspective.