Address
– Civil Law Division –
Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoeren
Leonardo-Campus 9, Room 110.118
48149 Münster Consultation hours: by appointment (also by email)
About the person
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Birth in Dinslaken |
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Studied Catholic theology and law in Münster, Tübingen and London |
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Acquisition of the degree of ecclesiastical licentiate in theology with a thesis on „Churches and data protection“ |
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First state examination in law |
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Second state examination in law |
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Doctorate at the University of Münster (dissertation topic: „Software transfer as a purchase in kind“) |
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Habilitation at the University of Münster (topic of the habilitation: „Self-regulation in banking and insurance law“) |
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Member of the editorial board of the magazine „Computer und Recht“ |
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Legal advisor to the European Commission/DG XIII in the „Legal Advisory Board on Information Technology“. Member of the Task Force Group on Intellectual Property of the European Commission. Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of DENIC eG. Member of the Board of Trustees of the Swiss Forum for Intellectual Property Law |
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University professor at the law faculty of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (professorship for civil law and international commercial law) and rejection of an appointment at the University of Kiel |
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Judge at the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf (20th Civil Senate, responsible for copyright and competition law, among other things) |
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University professor at the Faculty of Law of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and rejection of a call to the University of Cologne (2002)
Director of the Institute for Information, Telecommunications and Media Law (ITM) |
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Co-editor of the journal „Multimedia und Recht“ (C.H.Beck), the „Zeitschrift für Rechtstheorie“ (Duncker & Humblot) and the „International Journal of Law and Information Technology„/IJILT (Oxford University Press) |
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WIPO Domain Name Panelist and arbitrator for the EU Commission inthe allocation of .eu domains |
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Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute/BalliolCollege Lecturer at the Kunstakademie Münster, specializing in copyright law and art trade law. Lecturer in information and IT law at the Universities of Zurich and Vienna |
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Honored with the ALCATEL-SEL Research Award „Technical Communication“ Member of the Expert Committee for Copyright and Publishing Law of the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property and Copyright Law |
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Liaison lecturer at the German National Academic Foundation and member of its doctoral committee (since 2013) |
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Adjunct Professor at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT) |
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Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Münster |
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Research stay at Harvard Law School, Boston |
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Research stay/visiting professor at Stanford University
Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts |
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Visiting professor at Kyushu University (Fukuoka/Japan) and artist-in-residence in Itoshima (Japan) |
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General Rapporteur of the International League of Competition Law(LIDC) |
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Honored with the prize for German-Dutch scientific cooperation |
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Daidalos silver coin awarded by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes |
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Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam (Institute for Information Law)/ Fellowship of the NWO and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation |
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Artist-in-Residence at the Old School Hrisey/North Iceland |
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Member of the Concordia Vienna Press Club |
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Central Asia Research fellow at Tashkent State University (Uzbekistan) |
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Member of the editorial board of the international ejournal of Tashkent State University „TSUL Legal Report“. |
| Married, two children | |
Teaching authorization
Civil Law, Commercial Law, Civil Procedure Law, Legal Informatics
Publication list
The list of publications is available online.
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