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Team Dr. Andreas Engel, LL.M. (Yale)

Senior Research Fellow

 

Room No..: 104
Friedrich-Ebert-Platz 2
D-69117 Heidelberg

E-Mail: andreas.engel@igw.uni-heidelberg.de

Office Hours by appointment

Dr. Andreas Engel

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Research Interests

  • Civil Law
  • Law of Digitalization, with particular emphasis on Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Data Protection Law
  • Private International Law
  • Intellectual Property Law

Biographical stations

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6/2025 
Fellow, Weizenbaum-Institut
5/2025 
Fellow, European New School of Digital Studies, Europa-Universität Viadrina
Since 12/2020
Lecturer (Akademischer Rat a.Z.) with Prof. Dr. Christian Heinze, LL.M. (Cambridge), Chair of Civil Law, Commercial Law, European Law and Comparative Law, Heidelberg University
2019-2020
Lecturer (Akademischer Rat a.Z.) with Prof. Dr. Christian Heinze, LL.M. (Cambridge), Institute for Legal Informatics, Leibniz University Hanover
2017-2019
Clerkship with Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court Prof. Dr. Peter M. Huber, Former Minister
2010-2017
Research Assistant to Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Jürgen Basedow, LL.M. (Harvard Univ.), Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg (with interruptions for studies and placements abroad)
2014-2015
LL.M. coursework (Yale Law School)
2012
Summer Course (Private International Law) at the Hague Academy of International Law
2010-2013

Legal clerkship, Hanseatic Higher Regional Court, Hamburg, placements at, inter alia 

  •  Circuit Court (Landgericht) Hamburg, Civil Chamber 27 (Private International Law and Patent Law)
  •  Circuit Court (Landgericht), Civil Chamber 15 (Law of unfair commercial practices)
  •  Goldman Sachs Bank AG, Zurich
  •  Federal Ministry of Finance
2006-2007
Student of law at New College, Oxford
2004-2006/2007-2010
Student of law at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Qualifications

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2018

Dr. iur. (University of Hamburg) 

  • Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Jürgen Basedow, LL.M. (Harvard Univ.)
  • Dissertation: Internationales Kapitalmarktdeliktsrecht [International Capital Market Tort Law]
2015
Bar Exam (New York)
2015
LL.M. (Yale University)
2013
Second State Exam (Hamburg)
2010
First State Examination (Bavaria/LMU Munich)
2007
Diploma in Legal Studies (Oxford University)

Scholarships (Selection)

  • Maximilianeum Foundation
  • Max Weber Program of the Free State of Bavaria
  • Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)
  • DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)

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