Curriculum vitae

Personal Information

  • Born: September 15, 1968 in Kabul (Afghanistan)
  • Marital status: married
  • Nationality: German

School education

  • 1975 – 1979 Sankt Albani Primary School, Göttingen
  • 1979 – 1988 Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium, Göttingen, Abitur
  • January – July 1986 attended Milikan High School, Long Beach, California

University education / legal clerkship

  • 1988 – 1994 Law studies at the Universities of Göttingen, Bayreuth and Bordeaux
  • 1992 Maitrise en droit public (Bordeaux)
  • 1994 First State Examination in Law (Bayreuth)
  • 1994 – 1996 Legal clerkship in Bayreuth, Second State Examination in Law

Scientific and professional career

  • 08/1996 – 06/1999 Research Assistant at the Chair of Civil Law, International Private Law and Comparative Law of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Spellenberg, University of Bayreuth
  • 07/1999 – 08/2000 Research Assistant at the Chair of Civil Law, International Private Law and Comparative Law of Prof. Dr. Thomas Pfeiffer, University of Bielefeld, Germany
  • 3 March 2000 Doctoral examination at the University of Bayreuth
  • 09/2000 – 11/2002 In-house lawyer in the Foreign Law Department of the Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG, Munich, part-time lawyer at the District Court of Munich I
  • 2002 – 2005 Research assistant at the Chair of Civil Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Spellenberg, University of Bayreuth, preparation of the habilitation thesis
  • 14. 7. 2005 Habilitation at the Faculty of Law and Economics of the University of Bayreuth, teaching qualification for the subjects Civil Law, International Private and Procedural Law, Comparative Law, German and European Commercial and Corporate Law
  • 2006 – 2011 Chair of German and European Commercial and Corporate Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hamburg
  • since 2011 Holder of the Chair for German, European and International Private and Commercial Law at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg
  • since 2019 Judge at the Higher Regional Court of Nuremberg

Languages

  • English: business fluent, written and spoken
  • French: business fluent in word and writing
  • Italian: basic knowledge

Membership in scientific associations

  • Society for Comparative Law
  • Civil Law Teachers Association
  • Banking Law Association
  • Society of Young Civil Law Scholars (supporting member)