born 1964; studied law, economics (Vordiplom) and French in Göttingen, Lausanne, Hamburg, Marburg 1984-1991; assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (Prof. Dr. Ulrich Drobnig) Hamburg 1991-1992; Dr. jur. Marburg 1992; LL.M. (Yale) 1992-1993; attorney-at-law (New York) 1994; law clerk at the German Constitutional Court (Prof. Dr. Paul Kirchhof) 1995-1998; senior assistant at the chair for German and Foreign Public Law, European Law and International Law (Prof. Dr. Eibe Riedel), University of Mannheim 1998-2002; Habilitation, venia legendi (teaching qualification) for public law, public international law, European law, and comparative law, Mannheim 2002; substitute professor, University of Heidelberg 2003; since Sept. 2003 Mercator Professor of Public Law, European Law and Comparative Law (North-Eastern Europe), University of Greifswald

Since 2008 president of the Section for Comparative Public Law of the German Society of Comparative Law