Prof. Dr. Christoph U. Schmid, Ph.D. (EUI Florence)

Berufliche Tätigkeiten

Since 2007
Visiting Professorships at the Universities of La Laguna and Tarragona
(Spain); Trento and Sassari (Italy).

Since August 2005
Director at ZERP and Professor (W3) for European Private, Commercial, Economic Constitutional and Comparative Law at the University of Bremen
 
Additional academic functions:
•    Representative of the Department of International Affairs and Erasmus
•    Bremen coordinator of the course of studies "Hanse Law School" (Bachelor's and Master's programme in European and Comparative Law, together with the Universities of Oldenburg and Groningen)
•    Chairman of the examining board (2013-2018)
 
2004
Appointment as private lecturer at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
 
2002 – 2005
Scientific coordinator of the "European Private Law Forum" at EHI Florence; organisation of comparative law research projects on tenancy and real estate law in Europe, funded by the European Commission
 
2001 – 2004
Lecturer at the Universities of Rijeka (Croatia) and Novi Sad (Serbia), organized by the German Foundation for International Legal Cooperation and the DAAD.
 
11/2000
Participants of an expert hearing on the harmonisation of civil and commercial law in the EU before the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament in Brussels
 
1997 – 1999
Marie Curie Research Fellow at the EUI Florence
 
1995
Collaboration at the chair of Prof. Dagmar Coester-Waltjen, LMU Munich (focus: IPR expert opinion)
 
1994 – 95
Elective traineeship at the German Embassy in Brussels (legal and press department)
 
1992 – 1995
Legal clerkship in Landshut and Munich.
 
1992
Five-month research stay at the University of Berkeley/California

1991/1992
Four-month development aid internship at Brot für die Welt in Potosi, Bolivia
 
1989 – 1993
Worked for the German-Italian law firm Blume & Asam, Munich
 
 
Bildungsweg
 
2004
Habilitation (post-doctoral lecturing qualification); teaching authorisation granted in the subjects of civil law, commercial law, German, European and international business law, private international law, comparative law and legal theory
 
1999 – 2002
Bavarian Habilitation Award for the Habilitation Project The Instrumentalization of Private Law by the European Union (Supervisor Prof. Dr. Dagmar Coester-Waltjen, LL.M)
 
1997 – 1999
Start of a habilitation project on the Europeanization of private law, supervised by Prof. Dagmar Coester-Waltjen (Munich) and Prof. Christian Joerges (Florence)
 
Ab September 1995
Postgraduate studies in European Law and Comparative Law at the European University Institute Florence; Ph.D. research work on the conflict over the EC banana market organisation (supervisor Prof. Christian Joerges and Prof. Claus-Dieter Ehlermann)
Annual scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service and the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht e.V. (Studienvereinigung Antitrust Law Association)
 
1995
Second State Examination and Doctorate in Munich, Topic: The Interaction of Uniform UN Sales Law and National Law (Supervisor Prof. Dr. Andreas Heldrich)
 
1992
Start of doctorate with Prof. Andreas Heldrich, LMU Munich; Topic: "The Interplay of Uniform UN Sales Law and National Law";
Bavarian Doctoral Scholarship under the Law for the Promotion of Young Academics and Artists
 
1991

First State Examination in Law in Munich

1989 – 1991
Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
 
1988/89
Study abroad at the University of Geneva
 
1986 – 1991
Studied law and specialised foreign language training in English, French and Italian at the University of Passau

European private and commercial law, comparative law and legal theory, interdisciplinary connections to political science and integration theory. Current research projects on judicial governance in the EU, in particular the role of the European Court of Justice in private law, and on tenancy and real estate law in Europe.

Secretary
Antje Kautz

Scientific Staff

Tahsin Bensol

Luis Pinzon Assis

Annika Schulenberg

Wintersemester 2022/2023

Lecture Internationales Privatrecht
Lecture Wirtschaftsrecht II - 2 (Wettbewerbsrecht)
Seminar European Economic Constitutional Law
Seminar Comparative Contract Law ( english language, together with Tobias Pinkel)

Sommersemester 2022

Lecture Gesetzliche Schuldverhältnisse
Seminar European Housing Law & Policy
Summer School on Housing Law and Policy in Europe

Wintersemester 2020/2021

Lecture Internationales Privatrecht
Lecture Wirtschaftsrecht II - 2 (Wettbewerbsrecht)
Lecture Methodik der Rechtsvergleichung

Seminar Intellectual Property Law (english language, together with Dr. Chenguo Zhang)

 

Publications (pdf) (March 2021)

ORCID ID:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2321-5069

Selected publications (65MB)