EDUCATION
1995 – 2001 Legal Studies, University of Bielefeld
2001 First State Examination, Hamm
2005 Master of Laws (LL.M.), Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York (focus on Intellectual Property Law)
2005 Ph.D. (Doctor Juris - Dr. iur), University of Bielefeld
2005 New York Bar Exam
2008 Second State Examination, Hamburg

PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE
2002 – 2004 Research Assistant, Chair for Public Law, European and International Law, University of Bielefeld
2005 – 2006 Intern at Eaton & Van Winkle LLP, New York
2007 Internships with Taylor Wessing, IP-/IT-Department (Hamburg), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (New York) and Itzeck Incorporated (Cape Town)
since 2008 Attorney at Unverzagt von Have

AREAS OF PRACTICE
Unfair competition law, trademark law, new media law, film and television law, press law

FOREIGN LANGUAGES
English

EXPERTISE IN FOREIGN LAW
United States

PUBLICATIONS
Risk Prevention and the Free Movement of Goods in the European Common Market, Ph.D. thesis, Berlin 2005
Commentary on §§ 48, 48a BImSchG (German Federal Immission Control Act), in: Kotulla, M. (ed.), Bundes-Immissionsschutzgesetz, Stuttgart 2004 (together with Prof. Dr. Armin Hatje)