EDUCATION
1999 First State Examination in Law, Kiel University
1999 - 2003 Dissertation (Dr. iur.) at Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, for Promotion at University of Hamburg
2000 Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Media, Communications and
Information Technology Law, University of New South Wales,
Sydney, Australia
2003 Second State Examination in Law, Regional Court of Appeals Hamburg
2003 Doctor Iuris, University of Hamburg

Scholarship recipient of German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE
1999 Summer Student, Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP, Toronto, Canada, Information, Communications & Entertainment Department (ICE)
2001 Intern at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), Hamburg
since 2003 Attorney at Unverzagt von Have


AREAS OF PRACTICE
Film- and Television, Intellectual Property, Licensing, IT and New Media, Trademarks


FOREIGN LANGUAGES
English


EXPERTISE IN FOREIGN LAW
Australia


PUBLICATIONS
Access to Maritime Ports, Dissertation, ISBN 3-8334-0373-X