Main Areas of Research:

German civil law, commerce and economic law (in particular CISG, competition and telecommunications law), civil procedure law, conflict of laws, media and information law, intellectual property, European law, comparative law and legal sociology

Academic Career:

Born in 1973. 1992 commenced legal and social science studies at the Philipps-Universität Marburg including a one year stay (1994/95) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) as an Erasmus scholarship holder. Fellowship recipient of the German National Merit Foundation. Completed first legal examination in 1998 in Marburg (Faculty Prize). 1995 to 1996 and 1999 to 2000 Research Assistant at the Institute for Comparative Law in Marburg. Doctoral fellowship recipient from the Hessian Scholarship for Young Scientists. Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law of the Oxford University (Merton College) in 2000 for three months. In July 2001 completed a six-week research stay with the European Commission in Brussels. From 2001 through 2003 law clerk in Frankfurt am Main. In 2003 doctorate conferred (s.c.l., Marburg), second state examination in Frankfurt am Main and four month research stay at UNIDROIT in Rome. LL.M. completed at Harvard Law School (2003/04) as German Academic Exchange Scholarship Recipient. 2004 an eight-week guest stay at the New York University, School of Law. Since September 2004 a Senior Research Fellow for European Private and Economic Law at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg. Since 2006 Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hamburg. In 2006 for three months Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge (Wolfson College). Since 2008 organiser of the Hamburg International Media Law Forum (IMLF) of the German-American Lawyers' Association (DAJV). Completion of post-doctorate thesis (Habilitation) at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hamburg in winter semester 2011/12 (forthcoming). 120 publications in German, English, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, Chinese und Japanese. 40 presentations in Germany and, i.a., in Great Britain, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Ex-Yugoslavia, Turkey, Brazil and Japan. Guest lectureships on economic and UN sales law as well as German law of obligations, in particular in Ankara (2007), Frankfurt am Main (since 2008), Istanbul (2008), Verona (2009), London (2010) and Beijing (2011).