Tim Dornis

Curriculum

Tim W. Dornis holds the Chair of Private Law, International Private and Economic Law, and Comparative Law at Leuphana Law School. He joined the faculty in 2012.

He studied law and economics in Germany (Tübingen) and in the United States (Columbia University, LL.M. (James Kent Scholar) and Stanford Law School, J.S.M.). Before joining Leuphana´s faculty, Professor Dornis spent several years practicing in an international law firm and as a civil-law judge in Germany. From August until December 2011, he was a Hauser Global Fellow at New York University School of Law.

His habilitation thesis (University of Zurich, Switzerland) has been published by Cambridge University Press under the title "Trademark and Unfair Competition Conflicts: Historical-Comparative, Doctrinal, and Economic Perspectives" as part of the publisher´s Intellectual Property and Information Law Series.

Since 2015, Tim Dornis has been a visiting professor at the Università di Verona. In 2018, he has been appointed Global Professor of Law at the NYU Law in Paris program.

Professor Dornis´s research covers questions of private law, intellectual property, and competition law with a special focus on the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI). His research on conflicts law and international economic law focuses on policymaking and regulatory aspects of international and transnational structures in complex systems (marketplaces). As to the methods applied, Tim Dornis´s work embraces a historical-comparative and interdisciplinary approach to the law. This includes applying insights from economic theory, the social sciences (empirical methods), and legal-evolutionary theory.

Professor Dornis is admitted to practice law in New York (USA) and is a member of the German-American Lawyers` Association, the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR), the Association for Comparative Law (Gesellschaft für Rechtsvergleichung e. V.), the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) and the Robotics & Law Society (RAILS).

Short CV

May 2018: Scholar-in-residence at NYU School of Law´s Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration and Commercial Law (New York)

since Spring 2018: NYU School of Law (New York), Global Professor of Law at the "NYU Law in Paris" program

since May 2016: Visiting professor at the Università di Verona (Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche)

December 2015: Call (offer of a tenured position) for post as a professor of law (chair of Private Law, European and International Commercial Law), University of Leipzig (Juristenfakultät)

May 2014: Habilitation at the University of Zurich Law School, Zurich/Switzerland; Venia legendi awarded for private law, international privat law, comparative law, trade law, economic law, and intellectual property law

August 2011 until December 2011: Global Fellow from Practice & Government at the Hauser Global Law School Program of NYU School of Law, New York/USA; faculty sponsor: Barton Beebe

since August 2011: Professor of Law at Leuphana Law School, Lüneburg/Germany

August 2008 until July 2009: SPILS Fellow at Stanford Law School, Stanford/USA; research scholarship awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG); faculty supervisor: Mark A. Lemley

July 2006 until July 2011: Judge and public prosecutor (IP, banking and insurance law) at the District Court of Stuttgart/Germany, and in the Department of Justice

July 2004 until June 2006: Attorney-at-law in the IP and litigation department, Gleiss Lutz Lawyers, Stuttgart/Germany

November 2004: Ph.D. awarded, University of Tübingen/Germany; topic: Kaufpreiszahlung auf Notaranderkonto; supervisor: Wolfgang Ernst (highest distinction: summa cum laude)

August 2003 until June 2004: senior research associate, University of Augsburg/Germany

August 2002 until July 2003: Columbia University, New York/USA, LL.M. (highest distinction: James Kent Scholar); bar exam (attorney-at-law), New York/USA

October 2001 until July 2002: research associate, University of Tübingen

October 1999 until October 2001: practical training (Referendariat) at the District Court of Tübingen/Germany; stages inter alia with Clayton Utz Lawyers, Sydney/Australia

October 2001: Second state exam (bar equivalent) at the Circuit Court (OLG) of Stuttgart/Germany (result: top 1% state wide)

April 1995 until June 1999: Studies of law and economics; First State Exam (J.D. equivalent), University of Tübingen (result: top 1% state wide)

Research interests

Professor Dornis´s research covers questions of private law, private international law (conflicts law), and international economic law. With respect to private Law, his main focus ist on contract and tort law theory; he ist also interested in questions of intellectual property law and competition regulation. Meanwhile, his research on conflicts law and international economic law focuses on policymaking and regulatory aspects of international and transnational structures on complex systems (marketplaces).

As to the methods applied, Tim Dornis´s work embraces a historical-comparative and interdisciplinary approach to the law. This includes applying insights from economic theory, the social sciences (empirical methods), and legalevolutionary theory.

Teaching

Bis Ende Dezember 2011 ist Professor Dornis als Fellow des Hauser Global Law School Programs an der NYU School of Law tätig. Im Wintersemester 2011/12 (ab Januar 2012) wird er die Lehrveranstaltungen „Introduction to the US Common Law“ sowie „Rechtsgestaltung“ anbieten.