Our Leadership

Michael Grünberger completed his law studies at the University of Cologne (1st State Examination in Law, 1999) before completing postgraduate studies at New York University (LL.M., 2005). Two of his legal clerkships he spent at the Higher Regional Court of Cologne and an internationally oriented law firm in New York (2nd state law examination, 2002). After successfully completing his doctorate at the University of Cologne ("The Interpreter's Law" (Performers Rights), 2005, awarded the Doctoral Prize of the Faculty of Law), Grünberger worked as a post-doch researcher at the Institute for Intellectual Property at the University of Cologne from 2005 to 2011 where he completed his habilitation in 2011 with a thesis on "Personal Equality - The Principle of Equal Treatment in Civil Law". Since 2012 he has held the Chair for Civil, Commercial and Technology Law at the University of Bayreuth. From 2012 to 2015 he was the Spokesperson for the DFG graduate school " Intellectual Property and Public Domain.” Since April 2016, he has been managing director of the Institute for Copyright and Media Law in Munich.

Grünberger was appointed President of Bucerius Law School on October 1, 2023.

Jörn Axel Kämmerer, born in 1965, studied law at the universities of Tübingen and Aix-en-Provence/Marseille. After obtaining a Maîtrise en Droit (1988) and passing the First State Examination in Law (1991), he worked as a research assistant at the University of Tübingen from 1991 to 1995 where he also received his doctorate in 1993. His dissertation, entitled “Antarctica in the International Legal Order of Spatial and Environmental Protection”, was published by Duncker & Humblot in 1994. In 1992, Kämmerer served as a parliamentary adviser to the Saxon State Parliament. Following the Second State Examination in Law (1995), he continued his academic career in Tübingen as a senior research associate and completed his habilitation in 2000 with the thesis “Privatization: Typology – Determinants – Legal Practice – Consequences,”published by Mohr Siebeck in 2001.

Since 2000, Kämmerer has held the Chair of Public Law I – Public Law, Public International and European Law at Bucerius Law School. He has also served as Director of the Institute for Corporate and Capital Markets Law (IUKR) since 2007 and was its Executive Director from August 2017 to April 2018. In 2023, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.

In addition to his work at Bucerius Law School, Kämmerer has been actively involved in the Societas Iuris Publici Europaei (SIPE) for many years. He served as its Secretary General from 2016 to June 2022 and has been its President since June 2022. He is a member of numerous national and international academic associations, including the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers and the International Association of Constitutional Law, as well as several scholarly societies in the fields of international, comparative, and public law.

Jörn Axel Kämmerer was appointed Vice President for International Affairs at Bucerius Law School, effective 1 January 2026.