Professor Dr.
Michael Grünberger, LL.M. (NYU)
President of Bucerius Law School |
Claussen-Simon-Professor of Private Law and Responsive Jurisprudence
president(at)law-school.de
Jungiusstr. 6, 20355 Hamburg
Tel.: +49 (0) 40 3 07 06 - 167 (Sekretariat)
Research Focus
- Civil Law, Commercial Law, Technology Law
- Responsive jurisprudence as a scientific method
- Legal issues of digitalization and building blocks of contract law for the 21st century
- Non-discrimination law (in analog and digital contexts)
- Intellectual property law with a focus on copyright law
Other offices
President of Bucerius Law School (since 1 Oktober 2023)
Publications
Biography
EMPLOYMENT
University of Bayreuth, Germany
Professor of Civil, Commercial and Technology Law, since August 2012 (tenured)
Dean of the Faculty of Law, Business and Economics, October 2022 - May 2023
Vice dean of the Faculty of Law, Business and Economics, October 2020 - September 2022
Chair of the Bayreuth Graduate and Research Training Group “Intellectual Property and the Public Domain” (http://www.gkrw.uni-bayreuth.de), from November 2012 - March 2015. (The group was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany’s largest and most prestigious independent research funding organisation, with € 540.000,- (approx. $ 700.000,-) annually.
Visiting Professor of Civil, Commercial and Technology Law, April – August 2012
Rupprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany
Visiting Professor of Civil Law, October 2011 – March 2012
University of Cologne, Germany
Assistant Professor at the Institute for Industrial Property Rights and Copyright, August 2005 – September 2011
Fordham Law School, New York, NY
Visiting Foreign Scholar, March – April 2008
novalex/juriq, Germany
Coaching students for the first state exam (JD equivalent) in public law,
October 2005 – March 2006; April 2003 – July 2004
University of Cologne, Germany
Graduate Senior Assistant and Ph.D. student, Chair of Civil, Commercial and Corporate Law and Intellectual Property Law, January 2003 – August 2004
Mayer, Brown & Platt, Germany
Freelancer, May 1999 – October 2000
University of Cologne, Germany
Graduate Assistant, Department for German Legal History, February 1999 – September 2000
University of Cologne, Germany
Student Research Assistant, Department for German Legal History, January 1995 – January 1999
EDUCATION
University of Cologne, Faculty of Law, Germany
Habilitation (post-doctoral degree), 2011
Dr. jur. (doctorate in law), 2005
New York University, New York
Master of Laws (LL.M.), 2005 (Artur T. Vanderbilt scholarship, DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship)
Landesjustizprüfungsamt [Legal State Exam Authority] Düsseldorf, Germany
Second State Examination, 2002
(Top 3 % of all participants in 2002)
Oberlandesgericht [Regional High Court] Cologne, Germany
First State Examination (J. D. equivalent), 1999
(Top 1 % of all law school graduates in North-Rhine Westfalia in 1999)
Memberships in associations
- Board member of the Institut für Urheber- und Medienrecht e.V., Munich (Institute for Copyright and Media Law)
- Board member of the Society of Comparative Law (since 2015-2022)
- Co-Editor of the Zeitschrift für Geistiges Eigentum (Intellectual Property Journal), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen (since 2014)
- Member of the advisory council of the Gender Studies Institute at Cologne University (since 2012-2020)
- Elected Member of the Faculty Council of the Law and Economics Department at Bayreuth University (2013-2020)
- Hiring committee member for tenured positions at the Law and Economics Department at Bayreuth University (2012-2020)
- Elected Member of the Faculty Council of the Law Department at the University of Cologne (2009-2011)
- Member of the Diversity Committee of Cologne University (2008-2011)
