Public International Law, focusing on International Economic
Law, Theories of International Law, Regime Interactions, (Shared)
Responsibilities in International Law
(Behavioral) Law and Economics, Legal Theory, Deliberative Theories
Corruption, Development, Corporate Social Responsibility
Theories of Regulation and Supervision, Regulatory Impact Assessment, Administrative Law, Risk Regulation
State Liability and Responsibility in Cooperative States
Curriculum Vitae
2018: Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Chair for Law and
Economics, Legal Theory, Public International Law and European Law
within the Faculty of Law at the Universität Hamburg, Director of the
Institute of Law and Economics
2012: Full professor for law and economics, legal theory, international and European law at the University of St. Gallen
2012: Habilitation, Osnabrück University
2010/11 (academic year): fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (WIKO), Berlin
October 2006–2012: Max Schmidheiny Foundation: Tenure-track
professor for law and economics, legal theory, international and
European law at the University of St. Gallen
July 2005–September 2006: senior researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
April 2003–June 2005: senior researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative and International Public Law, Heidelberg
2000–2003: assistant at the chair for German, European, and
international civil and corporate law, institutional economics at
Humboldt-Universität Berlin (Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Christian Kirchner)
2002: second Staatsexamen (state examination), Berlin, Germany (2003: admitted to the bar)
November 2000–November 2002: legal traineeship at the Court of Appeals (Kammergericht), Berlin
2001: doctorate at the European University Viadrina, supervised by
Prof. Gerard Rowe (Rational Choice Theory in Law: On the Significance of
Economic Theory in Law)
1998–2000: assistant within the professorship for economic policy at
the University of Fribourg, Switzerland (Prof. Dr. Henner Kleinewefers)
1997–1998: visiting scholar at UC Berkeley Law School and Yale Law
School, financed by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
1997: first Staatsexamen (state examination), Bavaria, Germany
1992–1997: first law degree at Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität (LMU), Munich
1987–1992: Master degrees in economics and communication sciences, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
