Curriculum Vitae
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Since 2017
Professor (with special responsibilities)
Syddansk Universitet (University of Southern Denmark), Department of Law, Odense / Denmark
- Public international law, esp. international economic law focusing on international investment law, investment arbitration, international dispute settlement; investment law reform and sustainable development, comprehensive trade and investment agreements, regime collisions, norm diffusion in international and regional trade and investment regimes, economic analysis of investment protection norms, the relationship of international investment law to (general) public international law and to EU law, and small- and medium-sized enterprises in cross-border transactions
- EU law
- German and comparative constitutional and administrative law
Administration
- Member of the Committee for Internationalisation of Education (since 2017)
Teaching and Supervising LL.M. and Ph.D. Theses:
- Public international law, esp. international economic law
- EU law
- Legal expert and consultant for the European Parliament, legal expert for the Deutsche Bundestag (German Federal Parliament), for the Hessischer Landtag (State Parliament of Hesse), for the German Federal Government, i.e. the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, for the Slovak Government, for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva, and others on matters of regulating foreign investment
2011-2017
Professor as Juniorprofessor
Freie Universität Berlin (Free University of Berlin), Law School / Germany
- most recently on leave to perform a guest professorship at Uppsala University as 26. Sweden Prize Laureate of the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences) Stockholm in cooperation with the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Bonn
- In 2014 successful interim evaluation (equivalent to Habilitation in accordance with § 100 Abs. 1 Nr. 4, Abs. 2 BerlHG)
Research Focus
- Public international law
- EU law
- German and comparative constitutional and administrative law
Academic Self-Administration
- Full Member of the Working Group "International Network" of the "Excellence Council", Executive Board of the Free University (2015-17)
- Deputy Managing Director of the Institute of Public Law at the Department of Law (2015-17)
- Full Member of the Council of the Institute of Public Law at the Department of Law (2015-17),
- Full Member of the De-central Election Committee of the Department of Law (2011-15)
- Deputy Member of the Board of Examiners of the Department of Law (2011-5)
Teaching
- EU law
- European and international norm and standard setting
- International economic and investment law, investor-State dispute settlement, WTO law
- German constitutional and administrative law
- Faculty coordinator and supervisor of the Free University team in the European Law Moot Court Competition
Supervision
- Ph.D. and master theses in EU, public international and german public law
Knowledge Transfer
- Legal expert and consultant for the European Parliament, legal expert for the Deutsche Bundestag (German Federal Parliament), Hessischer Landtag (State Parliament of Hesse), expert advisor to different EU Member State governments, to a “Permanent Five”-Member of the UN Security Council, to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva, and to others on matters of regulating foreign investment
2010 – 2011
Wissenschaftlicher Assistent (Senior research associate)
Humboldt-Universität (Humboldt University) of Berlin, Law School / Germany
to Professor Dr. Dres. h.c. Ingolf Pernice (Chair of Public Law, European Law and International Law) and senior lecturer at the Law School
2004 – 2009
Wissenschaftlicher Angestellter (Research associate)
Eberhard-Karls-Universität of Tübingen, Law School / Germany
to Prof. Dr. Martin Nettesheim (Chair of Public Law, European Law, International Law and Foreign Policy) and lecturer at the Law School
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENT
Since 2017
Adjunct faculty, Energy investment and trade law
Technische Universität Berlin (Technical University of Berlin) / Germany
Since 2011
Adjunct faculty, European and international investment law
Humboldt-Universität (Humboldt University) of Berlin, Law School / Germany
01.2018-03.2018
Guest professor, European and international economic law
Nagoya University / Japan
05.2017-12.2018
Guest professor, EU and international investment law
Uppsala University / Sweden
as 26. Sweden Prize Laureate of the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences) Stockholm in cooperation with the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Bonn
SS 2017, SS 2018
Guest professor - "Flying Faculty", Public International Law
Turkish-German University Istanbul / Turkey
SS 2017
Acting professor, German public law
University of Mannheim / Germany
WS 2014/15
Guest professor, EU law
Moscow State Institute of International Relations / Russia
Joint LL.M. Programme Free University/MGIMO on “German and European Public and Commercial Administrative Law
SS 2014
Guest professor, International economic law
Université de Lausanne / Switzerland
Erasmus Teaching Staff Mobility Programme
SS 2012
Guest professor, EU and international economic law
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi Milan / Italy
EDUCATION
2007 - 2009
Zweites Juristisches Staatsexamen (Second legal state examination; bar exam equivalent) at the German State of Baden-Württemberg / Germany
Referendariat (legal clerkship) with stages inside and outside state judiciary,
among others, at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, at Gleiss Lutz Rechtsanwälte (law firm), Dispute Settlement Department, and CMS Hasche Sigle Rechtsanwälte (law firm), Public Procurement Department
Rechtsassessor (fully qualified German lawyer)
2004 – 2008
Dr. iur. (Ph.D. in law equivalent)
Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen, Law School / Germany
“The Free Movement of Capital and Foreign Direct Investment” (Oxford University Press, 2009); Thesis Prize
07/2005
Participation in the Academy of European Law
EUI, Florence / Italy
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Merit scholarship
2001 – 2003
Erstes Juristisches Staatsexamen (1st legal state examination; J.D. equivalent)
Philipps University of Marburg, Law School / Germany
2000 – 2001
LL.M. in International, European and Commercial Law
University of Sheffield, Law School / Great Britain
1997 – 2000
Law and Economics Studies
University of Bayreuth, Law School / Germany
OTHER ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS / EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Since 2011
Senior Fellow
Walter-Hallstein Institut für Europäisches Verfassungsrecht Berlin (Walter-Hallstein Institute for European Constitutional Law)
Since 2010
Academic Advisor
International Investment Law Center of the University of Cologne
SCHOLARSHIPS AND PRIZES (SELECTION)
2016/17
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (The Swedish Foundation for
Humanities and Social Sciences) in cooperation with the
Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (Foundation)
26th Swedish Prize (merit research award for outstanding German scholars)
2009
Doctoral Thesis Prize
Reinhold und Maria Teufel Stiftung (Foundation)
2005 – 2008
Merit doctoral scholarship
Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (Foundation of German Business)
07/2005
Merit DAAD scholarship
for the participation in the Academy of European Law, EUI, Florence / Italy
1998 – 2003
Merit student scholarship
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (Foundation)
Please see section on Knowledge Transfer
MEMBERSHIPS (Selection)
Deutsche Vereinigung für Internationales Recht (German Branch of the International Law Association)
u. a. Alternate Member of the German Branch of the International Law Association to the ILA Committee on “The Rule of Law and International Investment Law”
European Society of International Law (ESIL)
Society of International Economic Law (SIEL)
Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für das gesamte Regulierungsrecht (Scientific Association for Regulatory Law)
Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Europarecht in der Gesellschaft für Rechtsvergleichung (Scientific Society for European Law in the Society for Comparative Law)
Deutsche Initiative junger Schiedsrechtler (German Initiative of Young Arbitration Lawyer)
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS)
Mitglied des Auswahlausschusses der Deutschen Studienförderung (member of the selection committee for German study grants)
Vertrauensdozent für die Stipendiatengruppe "Dänemark" (Professorial mentor for KAS scholarship holders studying in Denmark)
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
ad-hoc member of the LL.M. scholarship selection committee
MEDIA
