Curriculum vitae

  • 2021 Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge (England)
  • November 2019 Scholar-in-residence at the Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration and Commercial Law of New York University School of Law (United States)
  • Since 2017 National Correspondent for Switzerland at UNCITRAL (United Nations Commission for International Trade Law)
  • Since 2017 Full Professor of Private Law at the University of Basel (Switzerland)
  • Since 2012 Honorary Fellow, Asian Institute of International Financial Law, University of Hong Kong (China)
  • 2012–2017 Full Professor with tenure at the University of Mannheim (Germany)
    • Chair for Private Law, International Corporate and Financial Markets Law, European Business Law
    • Director of the Institute for Corporate Law at the University of Mannheim (IURUM)
    • Senior Member of the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (MaCCI)
  • 2011/2012 Received offers of
    • the Chair for Private Law, Commercial and Business Law, in particular Company and Capital Markets Law at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen (declined) and of
    • the Chair for Private Law, International Corporate Law and European Business Law at the University of Mannheim (accepted)
  • 2011 Acting Professor at the University of Münster (Germany) and then at the University of Mannheim (Germany)
  • February 2011 Habilitation by the Faculty of Law of Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
    • Professorial thesis: Ratings – Bonitätsbeurteilungen durch Dritte im System des Finanzmarkt-, Gesellschafts- und Vertragsrechts. Eine rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung [Ratings – Creditworthiness Assessments by Third Parties within the System of Financial Markets Law, Company Law and Contract Law. A Comparative Law Treatise]
    • Granted the venia legendi for Private Law, Commercial Law, Company Law, International Private Law and Comparative Law
  • September/October 2009 and May 2010 Visiting Scholar at New York University School of Law (U.S.A.)
  • February/March 2009 Visiting Fellow at the University of Hong Kong (China), Asian Institute of International Financial Law
  • Winter Term 2005/06 Research Assistant, since Summer Term 2006 Assistant Professor (Akademischer Rat) at the Institute for Foreign and International Private Law, Dept. II of the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg (Director: Prof. Dr. Hanno Merkt, LL.M.)
  • 2004–2005 Research Assistant at the Institute for the Legal Profession of Humboldt University Berlin (Director: Prof. Dr. Reinhard Singer)
    • Lecturer in Law at Humboldt University Berlin
    • admitted as Attorney to the Berlin Bar
  • 2004 Second State Examination in Law in Berlin
  • 2002–2004 Judicial traineeship (Rechtsreferendariat) at the Court of Appeals Berlin; including various positions in Berlin, at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer and the German Consulate General in Hong Kong (China)
  • 2003 Granted the academic title Doctor iuris with highest honors (summa cum laude) by the Freie Universität Berlin based on the doctoral thesis UN-Kaufrecht und Europäisches Gemeinschaftsrecht – Verhältnis und Wechselwirkungen [UN Sales Law (CISG) and European Community Law – Relationship and Interaction] supervised by Prof. Dr. Helmut Grothe
  • 2000–2002 Holder of a full research scholarship awarded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft); Member of the Graduate College "European Private and Business Law" at Humboldt University Berlin
  • 1998–1999 Thirteen-month trip around the world
  • 1998 First State Examination in Law in Freiburg
  • 1995–1998 Student research assistant at the Institute for Foreign and International Private Law, Dept. I of the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg (Director: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Peter Schlechtriem, M.C.L.)
  • 1992–1998 Law studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg (Germany) and at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland)