Current research interests: competition and energy law, contract law
| Since 1985 | Member of national and international arbitration courts |
| CURRENT AND PREVIOUS POSITIONS | |
|---|---|
| Since 2017 | Member of the Reviewers Group of the Energy Law Journal of the Brazilian Institute for the Energy Law Studies (IBDE) |
| 2015 – 2020 | Guest Professorship of College of Comparative Law, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing |
| 1994 – 2018 | Executive Director of the Institute of Energy and Regulatory Law in Berlin, Germany |
| 2014 – 2022 | Academic Director Master’s Programme European and International Energy Law at the TU Berlin |
| 2013 | Member of the Advisory Board of the German Government for Modernisation of the German Water Industry
Founding member and First Executive Director of the German and European Scientific Society of Regulatory Law |
| 2004 – 2022 | Member of the Advisory Board of the Academic Institute of Infrastructure and Communication Services (WIK) |
| 2004 – 2021 | Member of the Academic Society for Competition Law (ascola) |
| 2003 – 2018 | Member of the Academic Advisory Committee for Regulatory Issues of the Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (Bundesnetzagentur) |
| 1998 – 2001 | Advisor to legislators in Hanoi and Jakarta on competition and company law as a legal expert of the German Company for International Cooperation (GIZ) |
| 1985 – 2022 | Member of various company advisory and supervisory boards |
| 1994 – 2014 | Executive Director of the Institute of German and European Business, Competition and Regulatory Law at the Freie Universität Berlin |
| 1984 – 1994 | Director of the Institute of Business and Tax Law at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel |
| 1975 – 1984 | Director of the Institute of German and European Labour and Business Law at the Freie Universität Berlin |
| 1974 – 1984 | Judge in antitrust law at the High Court of Berlin, Germany (Kammergericht) |
| 1973 – 1975 | Professor of civil law and labour law at the University Hamburg |
| 1971 – 1972 | Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin |
| 1971 – 1973 | Offers of professorships in civil law, labour law and business law at the universities of Berlin, Augsburg, Bielefeld, Innsbruck, Tuebingen, Hamburg and Kiel |
| 1969 – 1970 | Academic assistant to Prof. Dr. Biedenkopf at the University of Bochum |
| 1966 – 1968 | Academic assistant to Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Nipperdey, University of Cologne, former President of the Federal Industrial Law Court |
| EDUCATION / ACADEMIC CAREER | |
| 1970 | Habilitation (postdoctoral qualification) in law at the University of Bochum in the areas of civil law, trade law, competition law and labour law |
| 1970 | Doctorate in economics |
| 1968 | Assessor jur. |
| 1966 | Doctorate in law at the University of Cologne |
| 1962 | Scholarship of the German National foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) |
| 1961 – 1965 | Student of law and economics at the universities of Muenster (Germany), Bonn (Germany) and Geneva (Switzerland) |
| 1963 | Member of the German National Academic Foundation |
| 1961 | Abitur |
| HONOURS AND GRANTS | |
| 2017 | Honorary doctorate title of the National Kapodistrias University of Athens |
| 2015 | Guest Professorship of College of Comparative Law, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing |
| 2013 | Hon. Ph.D. of the Chinese Culture University (PCCC), Taipeh, Taiwan |
| 2008 | Awarded the Order of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany by the German President |
| 2002 | Consulting Professor at the University of Hangzhou, China |
| 1997 | Honorary doctorate title of the Russian Academy of Science, Institute of State and Law in Moscow |