CURRICULUM VITAE

Current employment: Professor Emeritus, former Jean Monnet chair of European Law, former Vice Dean, University of Lausanne/Switzerland

Professional address : Université de Lausanne
Centre de droit comparé, de droit européen et de législations étrangères
Internef
CH-1015 Lausanne
Suisse

Personal

Born: January 15, 1942, in Chemnitz, Germany
Family status: Widowed, one son (born 1973)
Nationality: German
Languages: German, English, French, Italian

Education

1953-1962
Martin Luther-School, Rimbach/Odenwald (W.-Germany)

1962-1964
University of Frankfurt/M., Faculty of Law

1965-1968
Special subjects: private and public international law, EEC law, political science

1964-1965
University of Geneva and Graduate Institute of International Studies
Subject: International Law, international political and economic relations, commercial law

Examinations

1972
Doctorate in Law (Dr. iur.) (subject: Comparative commercial Law) University of Frankfurt/Main

1974
Bar examination (“Assessorexamen”), Ministry of Justice, Land Hessen, Wiesbaden/Germany

1991
Habilitation (conclusion of procedure, qualifying for full time teaching at law faculties of German universities) University of Saarbrücken (“venia legendia” for the following subjects: European Law, Public International Law, German Constitutional and Administrative Law, Comparative Law).

Previous positions:

1991 – 2007
Full professor of European Law, chair Jean Monnet, Director, Center of Comparative Law, European Law and Foreign Legislations; (Vice Dean of the Law faculty 1997 – 2000), University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

1984 -1986
Visiting, subsequently Part-time Professor for European and International Law, Department of Law,
Director, Policy Unit of the EUI, European University Institute, Florence

1971-1991
European Parliament, Luxembourg, Legal Advisor

1970
Commission of the European Communities, Brussels, trainee

1968-1971
Ministry of justice (Land Hessen), trainee (“Referendar”)

Main fields of research and teaching

Main teaching areas : Law of the European Union, Constitutional Law, Transport Law, International Organisations, Comparative Constitutional Law.

Numerous lectures at universities in Europe and in the United States and contributions to major scientific conferences and colloquies.

Author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of twenty books and more than hundred articles on Constitutional Law, general issues of European Integration, Comparative Law and European Law.

Publications include a manual on EC Law (8th edition (2008), and a major comparative study on procedure in Constitutional Law of four European States and of several international organisations (1992).