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Institute of Media and Information Law, Dept. I: Private Law
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Prof. Dr. Moritz Hennemann, M. Jur. (Oxon.)

Curriculum Vitae

  • Born in 1985
  • Military service and reserve officer training
  • Studied law in Heidelberg (first law exam in 2009), Krakow, Freiburg (doctorate in 2011), and Oxford (Master of Laws in 2011)
  • Research assistant at the Institute for Media and Information Law at the University of Freiburg and at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg
  • Legal clerkship with the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (second state law examination in 2014)
  • Lawyer at Hengeler Mueller, Düsseldorf
  • Academic advisor and postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Media and Information Law at the University of Freiburg (postdoctoral qualification 2019); visiting researcher at Harvard Law School (fall term 2018)
  • Chair of European and International Information and Data Law and head of the Research Center for Legal Issues of Digitalization at the University of Passau (2020 to 2023); Visiting researcher at the Institute of European and Comparative Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Oxford (Trinity Term 2023)
  • Since October 2023, holder of the Chair of Civil Law with Information Law, Media Law, Internet Law and Director of the Institute for Media and Information Law at the University of Freiburg