Professional Experience
Since 2024: Of Counsel at the law firm Aitava
10/2023 – present Technical University of Munich: Full Professor of Law and Regulation of the Digital Transformation
04/2021 – 09/2023 University of Leipzig: Full Professor of Civil and Media Law, Information and Data Law
- Director, Institute for Media Law, Data Law, and Digitalization
2021 – 2024: Of Counsel at the law firm Nikol & Goetz
02/2020 – 2023: Judge, Hamburg District Court (Copyright and IT Law)
2009 – 2021 University of Freiburg: Full Professor of Civil Law, Media Law, and Internet Law
- Director, Institute for Media and Information Law, Department I: Civil Law
- 2016 – 2018: Dean, Faculty of Law
- 2012 – 2014: Dean of Studies, Faculty of Law
2004 – 2009 University of Heidelberg: Research Assistant with Professor Werner F. Ebke, LL.M.
- 2009: Habilitation, venia legendi for Civil Law, Commercial Law, Business Law, International Private Law, and Media Law
2001 –2003 OLG Duesseldorf: Rechtsreferendariat (State Training Scheme Leading to the Second Legal State Examination)
- 2003: Second Legal State Examination
2000 – 2001 University of Oxford/GB: Magister Juris in European and Comparative Law (M.Jur.), Magdalen College („distinction“)
1995 – 2000 und 2004 University of Constance
- 2004: Research Assistant with Professor Werner F. Ebke, LL.M.
- 2001: Dissertation – Dr. jur. („summa cum laude“)
- 1999 – 08.2000: Research Assistant with Professor Werner F. Ebke, LL.M.
- 1999: First Legal State Examination
- 1995 –1999: Undergraduate Studies
1994 – 1995 Leibniz Kolleg Tuebingen: Studium Generale, Leibniz-Kolleg, Tuebingen