Thomas M. J. Möllers (born 25 January 1962 in Mainz) is a German legal scholar, focusing on capital markets law.

Academic life Möllers studied law in Mainz and Dijon. He conducted research for his doctorate under Walther Hadding and for his habilitation under Wolfgang Fikentscher. During this time he was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley and at the European University Institute in Florence. After his habilitation on the subject of "Legal protection in environmental and liability Law".Möllers, Thomas M. J. (1996). Rechtsgüterschutz im Umwelt- und Haftungsrecht: präventive Verkehrspflichten und Beweiserleichterungen in Risikolagen (in German). Mohr Siebeck. . at LMU Munich, Möllers became a full professor of civil law, commercial law, European law, international private law, and comparative law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Augsburg on 1 July 1996.Prof. Dr. Prof. h.c. Thomas M.J. Möllers, Academic Career with CV, University of Ausgburg.

Möllers has held visiting and research professorships at several universities among others in Sydney,Law School Visitors, The Sydney Law School Reports, Vol 1, 2007. Pittsburgh,Jean Monnet Lecture: “Investor Protection in the System of European Capital Market Law: Legal Foundations and Outlook”, University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh, Newsletter March 2011. North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Pepperdine, Hobart, Washington, D.C.,"Amerikareise von Professor Dr. Thomas M. J. Möllers" Retrieved 3 June 2024. BeijingThomas Moellers gives a lecture, College of Comparative Law, China University of Political Science and Law, 18 November 2025. Retrieved 6 June 2024., Changsha, Wuhan, Lyon,"Professeurs invités". IDCEL - Institut de Droit Comparé Édourd Lambert. Retrieved 28 October 2024. and LanzhouLecture tour in China and appointment as permanent visiting professor of the University of Political Science Gansu in Lanzhou, University of Augsburg. Retrieved 6 June 2024..

Work Möllers has helped shape European capital markets law with more than 500 publications.Bibliography Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. Möllers, University of Augsburg. Retrieved 21 October 2024. Within these he has discussed topics such as the investigated economic scandals involving Volkswagen and Wirecard.Möllers, Thomas M. J., Auditors report and the German Capital Markets Model Case Act (KapMuG)—legal consequences for EY in the Wirecard scandal, Capital Markets Law Journal, Volume 19, Issue 1, January 2024, Pages 22–55. More recently, Möllers has been working on sustainability in capital markets law and the interactions between psychology, environmental and capital markets law.Möllers, Thomas M. J., European Green Deal: Greenwashing and the Forgotten Good Corporate Citizen as an Investor, Columbia Journal of European Law, Vol. 28, No. 2, 2022.

He is most known for his publication Juristische Methodenlehre (Legal Methods), which has been translated to English in 2020Möllers, Thomas M. J., Legal Methods, Bloomybury Academic 2020. . and Chinese in 2022."90万字的法学方法论，一部近千页的不朽之作 | 重磅推荐", 22 July 2022. Retrieved 6 June 2024. Möllers' work also focuses on legal working techniques. In 2001 his book Juristische Arbeitstechnik und wissenschaftliches Arbeiten (Legal Working Technique and Academic Work) was first published and developed standards for the academic work of lawyers.Möllers, Thomas M.J. (2021). Juristische Arbeitstechnik und wissenschaftliches Arbeiten: Klausur, Hausarbeit, Seminararbeit, Studienarbeit, Staatsexamen, Dissertation (in German). Publishing house Franz Vahlen. . When the plagiarism of former German Defense Minister zu Guttenberg was uncovered, these standards were being used as a guideline.Schulz, Tanjev, Plagiatsvorwurf gegen Guttenberg:Spurensuche im Graubereich, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 16 February 2011. Retrieved 30 November 2022.Kommission „Selbstkontrolle in der Wissenschaft“ der Universität Bayreuth, Bericht an die Hochschulleitung der Universität Bayreuth aus Anlass der Untersuchung des Verdachts wissenschaftlichen Fehlverhaltens von Herrn Karl-Theodor Freiherr zu Guttenberg, 5. Mai 2011, S. 14.

Functions and honors since 2024: Honorary professor at the Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.Ehrenprofessor-Würde für Augsburger Juristen, Universität Augsburg. Retrieved 31 October 2024. 2016-2020: Jean Monnet Center of Excellence at the University of Augsburg "European Integration - Rule of Law and Enforcement (INspiRE)". Awarded the Ad Personam Jean Monnet Chair by the European Commission in 2010, and in 2005, a Jean Monnet Chair for European corporate, capital markets and competition law by the EU Commission. Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Deutsche Bundesbank's Money and Currency Foundation since 1 July 2015, and a permanent member of the Board of Trustees since 2009.Organisation der Stiftung. Mitglieder des Stiftungsrates und Vertreter, Stiftung Geld und Währung. Retrieved 6 June 2024. Member of the Advisory Board of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC).

Selected publications

Möllers, Juristische Methodenlehre. 6th ed. C.H.Beck, München 2025, . English translation of the 2nd ed.: Hart Publishing, Oxford u.a. 2020, . Chinese translation of the 4th ed.: Peking University Press, Peking 2022, . Möllers, Juristische Arbeitstechnik und wissenschaftliches Arbeiten. 11th ed. Vahlen, München 2024, . Chinese translation of the 9th and 10th ed.: Peking University Press, . Möllers, Thomas; Gsell, Beate, Enforcing Consumer and Capital Market Law in Europe. The Diesel Emissions Scandal, Intersentia, Cambridge 2020, . Möllers, Thomas; Hirte Heribert, Kölner Kommentar zum WpHG. 2nd ed. Carl Heymanns, 2013, .

References

External links Biography at the University of Augsburg Literature by and about Thomas M. J. Möllers in the catalogue of the German National Library