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Dr. Andreas Engel, LL.M. (Yale), Senior Research Fellow

Chair of Prof. Dr. Christian Heinze, LL.M. (Cambridge)

Room 104

Email: andreas.engel@igw.uni-heidelberg.de

Office Hours by appointment

Research Interests

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

Biographical stations

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

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)

Publications (Selection)

Monograph

Internationales Kapitalmarktdeliktsrecht [International Capital Market Tort Law], Tübingen 2019 (XXXI + 371 pages) (reviewed by Thomale, RdW 2020, 391).

Editorships

Oxford Handbook on the Foundations and Regulation of Generative AI (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
– joint work with Philipp Hacker, Brent Mittelstadt and Sarah Hammer –
Die Achtung des Fremden – Leerformel oder Leitprinzip im Internationalen Privatrecht? [Deference to the foreign – empty phrase or guiding principle of private international law?] (Proceedings of the 4th German Conference for Young Scholars in Private International Law), Tübingen 2024.
– joint work with Florian Heindler, Martina Melcher, Katharina Kaesling, Ben Köhler, Bettina Rentsch, Susanna Roßbach and Johannes Ungerer –

Commentaries

Art. 46–48 UPC (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court)
[Legal capacity, Parties, Representation]
in: Christian Heinze, Mary-Rose McGuire and Christian Osterrieth (eds.), Einheitspatentrecht (C.H. Beck, forthcoming).
Art. 15–32 Rom II-VO [Art. 15–32 Rome II Regulation]
in: juris PraxisKommentar BGB (7th-10th edition, 2015-2023).

Journal Articles and Contributions to edited volumes

Generative KI, Datenschutz, Hassrede und Desinformation – Zur Regulierung von KI-Meinungen [Generative AI, Data Protection, Hate Speech and Disinformation – On the Regulation of AI-Opinions]
in: ZUM (Zeitschrift für Urheber- und Medienrecht) 2023, 586–594
– joint work with Amelie Berz and Philipp Hacker –
Regulating ChatGPT and other Large Generative AI Models
in: FAccT'23: 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency – Proceedings, 1112–1123 / https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02337.
– joint work with Philipp Hacker and Marco Mauer –
The European Convention on Human Rights in the German Legal System: A Qualitative and Quantitative Introduction
in: Matteo Fornasier and Maria Gabriella Stanzione (eds.), The European Convention on Human Rights and its Impact on National Private Law – A Comparative Perspective, Cambridge (UK) 2023, 11–41.
Datenschutz und Allgemeines Persönlichkeitsrecht – Zu Schutzzweckerwägungen bei Art. 82 DSGVO und zu Gerichtsgutachten unter der DSGVO [Data Protection and the General Right of Personality – On Consideration of Purpose in Art. 82 GDPR and on Court Opinions under the GDPR]
(on OLG Düsseldorf, 16.2.2021 – 16 U 269/20)
in: ZEuP (Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht) 2023, 236–248.
Schwärme im Internationalen Zivilverfahrensrecht und im Internationalen Privatrecht [Swarms in Private International Law and International Civil Procedure]
in: Ben Köhler and Stefan Korch (eds.), Schwärme im Recht, Tübingen 2022, 123–144.
Datenverlust als materieller Schaden [Data loss as material damage?]
in: Christian Heinze (ed.), Daten, Plattformen und KI als Dreiklang unserer Zeit [Data, Platforms and AI as the Triad of Our Time], Edewecht 2022, 17–31.
Erfinderische Tätigkeit und Künstliche Intelligenz: Der Einfluss vermehrten KI-Einsatzes auf das Verständnis der erfinderischen Tätigkeit [Inventive Step and Artificial Intelligence: The Impact of Increased AI Use on the Understanding of the Inventive Step].
in: GRUR (Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht) 2022, 864–869.
Die GmbH mit gebundenem Vermögen und das Europarecht [GmbH with Asset Lock and European Law]
in: DStR (Deutsches Steuerrecht) 2022, 844–849
– joint work with David Haubner –
KI und Patentrecht [AI and Patent Law]
in: Martin Ebers, Christian Heinze, Tina Krügel and Björn Steinrötter (eds.), Künstliche Intelligenz und Robotik [Artificial Intelligence and Robotics], Munich 2020, 355–411.
– joint work with Christian Heinze –

Case Notes

Prüfpflichten für Bewertungsportale und Anforderungen an Rügen seitens Bewerteter im Lichte von (Unternehmens-)Persönlichkeitsrecht, UWG und Digital Services Act – [Duty of review for rating websites and requirements for complaints by rated parties in the light of (corporate) personality rights, the Unfair Competition Act (UWG) and the Digital Services Act (DSA)]
Note on BGH, 9 August 2022 - VI ZR 1244/20
in: ZUM (Zeitschrift für Urheber- und Medienrecht) 2022, 911–914.
Note on ECJ, 10 February 2022 - C-522/20 - OE [Nationality in International Civil Procedure and prohibition of discrimination]
in: GPR (Zeitschrift für das Privatrecht der Europäischen Union - European Union Private Law Review) 2022, 164–167.
Note on ECJ, 21 December 2021 - C-251/20 - Gtflix Tv [International jurisdiction for actions for disparaging statements on the Internet - so-called mosaic solution]
in: EuZW (Europäische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht) 2022, 226–227.

List of all publications

Presentations

The EU Approach to AI Regulation – Lessons for the UK, Legal implications of Artificial Intelligence, University of Sunderland, Symposium, 28.02.2024 (online)
Best practices for developing and securing AI systems: a legal perspective, Auditing AI Systems: New Challenges Introduced by Generative AI, 4th International Workshop, BSI / TÜV-Verband / Fraunhofer HHI, Berlin, 10.11.2023
Generative AI and Copyright, AI for Good – Workshop: Legal and technical challenges of large generative AI models, International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, 04 July 2023
Künstliche Intelligenz als Herausforderung für das Patentrecht [Artificial Intelligence as a Challenge for Patent Law], DigiKol, 02 February 2023 (online)
Face Recognition Technologies in the Public Sector: Observations from Germany, Facial Recognition in the Modern State, 15 September 2022 (online)
Datenverlust als materieller Schaden? [Data loss as material damage?], 23rd Autumn Academy of the German Foundation for Law and Informatics (DSRI), Hannover, 15 September 2022
Schwarmverhalten aus kollisionsrechtlicher Perspektive [Swarm behavior from a conflict of laws perspective], Swarms in Law, Max Planck Institute for International and Comparative Private Law, Hamburg, 30 June 2022 (online)
Schwärme im IPR und IZVR [Swarms in Private International Law and International Civil Procedure], Jour Fixe, Chair of Civil Law, Commercial Law, Private International Law, Comparative Law (Prof. Dr. Marc-Philippe Weller), Heidelberg, 14 June 2022
Künstliche Intelligenz und menschliche Tätigkeit im Patentrecht [Artificial Intelligence and Human Activity in Patent Law], lecture in the context of the lecture Wirtschaftsrecht 2.0, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, 03 March 2022
AI and Patent Law: Anthropo- and Technocentrism, ENS Research Seminar, European New School of Digital Studies, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), 30 November 2021 (online)
The ECHR in the German Legal System - an Introduction, The European Convention on Human Rights and its Impact on Private Law: Italo-German Perspectives, Villa Vigoni, Menaggio (Italy), 31 August 2021.
Staatenimmunität in der Rechtsprechung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts [State Immunity in the Jurisprudence of the Federal Constitutional Court], Jour Fixe, Chair of Civil Law, Commercial Law, Private International Law, Comparative Law (Prof. Dr. Marc-Philippe Weller), Heidelberg, 20 April 2021 (online)
Private International Law Between Objectivity and Power, Young Scholars Conference: The Law Between Objectivity and Power, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Munich, 12 October 2020.
Zur Anknüpfung von Prospekthaftung und Haftung wegen fehlerhafter Ad-hoc-Informationen [On the law applicable to prospectus liability and liability due to erroneous ad hoc information], Jour Fixe, Chair of Civil Law, Commercial Law, Private International Law, Comparative Law (Prof. Dr. Marc-Philippe Weller), Heidelberg, 25 October 2017
Internationales Kapitalmarktdeliktsrecht in der EU und den USA [International Capital Market Tort Law in the EU and in the US], 4th MPI & ZEW Law & Economics Workshop, Mannheim, 25 November 2016.
International Capital Market Liability in the US and the EU, Humboldt Private Law Workshop, Humboldt University of Berlin, 14 January 2016.
Internationales Kapitalmarktdeliktsrecht [International Capital Market Tort Law], Max Planck Institute for International and Comparative Private Law, Hamburg, 2 June 2014.