Philipp Niklot Hacker, LL.M. (Yale) Curriculum Vitae - Hu

Philipp Niklot Hacker, LL.M. (Yale)
Curriculum Vitae
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Lehrstuhl für Deutsches, Europäisches und
Internationales Privat- und Wirtschaftsrecht
Unter den Linden 9
10117 Berlin
email: [email protected]
phone: +49 30 2093 3498
DATE OF BIRTH:
15.01.1985
Born in Würzburg, Germany
CURRENT POSITIONS:
PhD student and research fellow at the chair for European and International Private and
Business Law of Professor Stefan Grundmann at Humboldt University of Berlin
Member of the Graduate School “Unity and Difference in the European Legal Sphere” at
Humboldt University of Berlin
Founder and organizer, Humboldt Private Law Workshop
Founder and organizer of the Humboldt Comparative and European Law Lectures (HUCELL)
EDUCATION:
1995-2004
Wirsberg High School in Würzburg, Germany
March to July 2000
Attendance of the German School of Paris
August to December 2001
Attendance of the private Casady High School, Oklahoma City, USA
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June 2004
Final exams at Wirsberg High School, Germany, with advanced level classes in mathematics
and French; Grade: 1.0 (on a scale ranging from maximum of 1.0 to a minimum of 4.0), 833
out of 840 points
Winter Term 2004/05 – Summer Term 2009
Legal studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Main courses and seminars: Antitrust Law, European Economic Law, Media Law, Unfair
Competition Law, Intellectual Property Law
Summer Term 2005 and Winter Term 2005/06
Secondary studies in philosophy at the University of Philosophy, Munich
February – August 2007
Exchange semester at the law school of the University of Salamanca, Spain
Main courses: Contract Law and Private International Law
April 2009 – April 2010
Secondary studies in German literature and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University
Munich
July 2009
First State Exam in law
Top 0.5 % of class in Bavaria
May 2010 – May 2012
Compulsory legal trainee program (Rechtsreferendariat) in Berlin
May 2012
Second State Exam
Top 1 % of class in Berlin and Brandenburg
Since July 2012
Ph.D. with Professor Dr. Dr. Stefan Grundmann, LL.M. (Berkeley) at Humboldt University of
Berlin on alternatives to the information model in private law and the normative implications
of behavioral economics
October 2013 – May 2014
LL.M. program at Yale University
Main classes: securities regulation and corporate law; contracts; behavioral law and
economics; political and legal philosophy
Grades: straight “Honors” for all graded classes; a final grade for the entire LL.M. does not
exist at Yale
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
June 2007
Internship with the law firm of Professor Llamas Pombo in Salamanca, Spain
Focus of activities: Spanish Private, Corporate and Insolvency law
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December 2007 – May 2010
Scientific assistant to Professor Wolfgang Fikentscher, at the Ludwig Maximilian University
Munich, Chair for European and International Competition Law, and at the Max-PlanckInstitute for Competition, Intellectual Property and Tax Law in Munich
Main topics: Legal Anthropology, Antitrust Law, Law of the Capital Markets
January – April 2010
Scientific assistant to the Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Competition, Intellectual
Property and Tax Law, Professor Josef Drexl
Main topic: Study project in the Law of the Capital Markets
July 2012 – July 2013
Scientific assistant at Noerr LLP in the corporate law department
October 2012 – April 2013
Teaching assistant at Humboldt University of Berlin in commercial and company law
January – July 2013
Foundation and organization of the PhD seminar at Professor Grundmann’s chair
January – May 2014
Foundation and organization of the reading group “The Debates on Rationality in Social and
Legal Analyses” at Yale Law School, jointly with Professor David Singh Grewal
January – May 2014
Editor, Yale Journal on Regulation
Since October 2014
Scientific assistant at Professor Grundmann’s chair at Humboldt University of Berlin
Since December 2014
Foundation and organization of the Humboldt Private Law Workshop
Since May 2015
Foundation and organization of the Humboldt Comparative and European Law Lectures
(HUCELL)
AWARDS AND MEMBERSHIPS:
1999/ 2000
Second prize in the final round of the Bavarian State Mathematics Competition
2003
Second prize in the first round of the German National Mathematics Competition
First Prize with the languages English and French in the final round of the German National
Foreign Language Competition, the largest and most competitive language competition in the
country, sponsored by the German Government; 2 – 4 individuals receive the First Prize every
year after four rounds of selection out of roughly 800 initial candidates
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Subsequent admission to the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des
Deutschen Volkes) (membership until October 2009), the most prestigious national
scholarship foundation in the country capitalized by the German Government
2004
Apollinaire-Award of the Robert Bosch Foundation for special merits in the French Advanced
Level Class
Passing of the Bavarian Special Exam for Highly Gifted Students and subsequent admission
to the Bavarian Scholarship Association
Prize of the Corporations of Würzburg for the best performance at the Bavarian Special Exam
for Highly Gifted Students in Lower Franconia
Admission to the Stiftung Maximilianeum in Munich, an scholarship institution awarding the
most selective student scholarship in Germany; it includes free board and lodging during the
time of studies for students from all disciplines within the House of the Bavarian Parliament;
the scholarship is limited to 4 – 8 students admitted each year out of approximately 400
passing the final high school exams in Bavaria with the top grade of 1.0
Second prize with the languages of French and English in the final round of the German
National Foreign Language Competition
2009
Agnes Ament Scholarship for the studies of German Literature and Philosophy, awarded by
the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
2013
ERP Scholarship (European Recovery Program) of the German National Academic
Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) to support the completion of the LL.M.
program
Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to support the completion
of the LL.M. program
Arthur T. Vanderbilt Scholarship of NYU (declined)
Yale Law School Scholarship (declined due to funding from Germany)
Elsa-Neumann-Scholarship of the State of Berlin to support the completion of the PhD thesis
in law
PUBLICATIONS:
Monograph:
FAIRECONOMY – CRISES, CULTURE, COMPETITION AND THE ROLE OF LAW, 19 MPI Studies on
Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Springer, Heidelberg et al., 2013, 150 pages (with
Wolfgang Fikentscher and Rupprecht Podszun).
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Reviews:
Adi Ayal, 45 International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law 734736 (2014).
Marco Saverio Spolidoro, Rivista delle Società 2014, 940-941.
Book Chapters:
Rethinking Autonomy, in: CONSUMER RESEARCH HANDBOOK (Hans-W. Micklitz, Kai
Purnhagen & Anne-Lise Sibony eds., Edward Elgar, forthcoming).
Versicherung und Verbriefung – Der Irrweg der Kommission auf der Suche nach einer
Regulierung von derivativen Finanzprodukten [Insurance and Securitization – How the
Commission has been led astray in Its Search for a Regulation of Derivative Financial
Products] in: VERSICHERUNGSMECHANISMEN IM RECHT [Insurance Mechanisms in Law]
(Mohr Siebeck, forthcoming).
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals:
The Behavioral Divide. A Critique of the Differential Implementation of Behavioral Law and
Economics in the US and the EU (forthcoming, European Review of Contract Law).
Articles in Non Peer-Reviewed Journals:
„Korruptionsamnestie“: Eine neue Vokabel im nachhaltigen Kampf gegen Korruption
[„Amnesty for Corruption“: A New Term in the Fight against Corruption], Zeitschrift für
Rechtspolitik 2009, 4-6 (with Alexander Schemmel).
Rechtsgeschäfte mit Unbekannten? Zu dogmatischen und praktischen Tücken im Umgang mit
kartellrechtswidrigen Joint Ventures [Transactions with Unknown Parties? On Doctrinary and
Practical Difficulties in Dealing with Joint Ventures Violating Antitrust Law], Rheinische
Notar-Zeitschrift 2014, 349-365 (with Christoph Spiering).
Leere Hülse, volle Haftung? Plädoyer für eine Insolvenzausnahme bei
Unternehmensfortsetzung und wirtschaftlicher Neugründung [Empty Shell, Full Liability?
Advancing a Liability Exemption for the Continuation of Companies after Insolvency], ZIP
2015, 761-770 (with Andrea Petsch).
Working Papers:
Overcoming the Knowledge Problem - Behavioral Economics, Uncertainty, and Legal
Concepts of Human Agency. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2632022.
More Behavioral vs. More Economic Approach: Explaining the Behavioral Divide between
the US and the EU
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Nudging and Autonomy. A Philosophical and Legal Critique.
Debiasing as Disenchantment? Moral and Political Limits of Debiasing
Learning and the Law. Individual, Institutional, and Interrelated Processes (with Georgios
Dimitropoulos)
VERHALTENSÖKONOMIK UND NORMATIVITÄT. ALTERNATIVEN ZUM INFORMATIONSMODELL IM
PRIVATRECHT [BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND NORMATIVITY. ALTERNATIVES TO THE
DISCLOSURE PARADIGM IN PRIVATE LAW] (Dissertation, in German).
TALKS AND LECTURES:
January 2013
“Zwischen Gemeinwohlutopie und illiberaler Dystopie – Gedanken zum debiasing im
Privatrecht“, Lecture at the PhD Seminar, Humboldt University of Berlin
July 2013
“Bounded Rationality and Legal Concepts of Human Agency - Towards a Transparent
System of Trade-Offs in Unfair Competition and Tort Law”, Lecture at the PhD Seminar,
Humboldt University of Berlin
November 2013
“Debias Them!? Towards a Critical Theory of Reducing Biases and Uncertainty in Private
Law”, Lecture at the 3rd Yale Doctoral Scholarship Conference, Yale Law School, New
Haven
January 2015
“The Knowledge Problem in Behavioral Law and Economics – A Decision Theoretic
Perspective”, Lecture at the Humboldt Private Law Workshop, Humboldt University of Berlin
February 2015
“Bounded Rationality, Uncertainty, and the Disclosure Paradigm in Private Law Overcoming the Knowledge Problem in Behavioral Law and Economics”, Lecture at the
Private Law Forum for Doctoral Researchers, European University Institute, Florence
May 2015
“Versicherung und Verbriefung – Der Irrweg der Kommission auf der Suche nach einer
Regulierung von derivativen Finanzprodukten” [Insurance and Securitization – How the
Commission has been led astray in Its Search for a Regulation of Derivative Financial
Products], Lecture at the conference “Versicherungsmechanismen im Recht”, LMU Munich.
June 2015
“Learning and the Law. Individual, Institutional, and Interrelated Processes”, Lecture at the
Humboldt Private Law Workshop, Humboldt University of Berlin (with Georgios
Dimitropoulos)
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July 2015
“The Promises and Perils of Behavioral Law and Economics”, Class taught at the Global Law
and Governance Summer School, Cap Sounion, Greece (with Ioannis Lianos)
Panelist on the panel concerning “The New Frontiers of the Regulatory Enterprise: Behavioral
economics and psychology, RCT, socio-metrics”, EPLO and IMEDIPA Conference “The
Future of Regulation”, Athens, Greece
COMMUNITY SERVICE AND COMMITMENT:
2002-2004
Representative of the native village of Gerbrunn in the Youth Council of City Partnerships in
Lower Franconia
2002-2006
Part of the organizing team of the Africa Festival in Würzburg, responsible for translation and
interpretation, event management and support of musicians
Since 2015
Voluntary work for the Zionskirche, Berlin-Mitte
LANGUAGES:
German: mother tongue
English: fluent in oral and written expression
French: fluent in oral and written expression
Spanish: fluent in oral and written expression
Portuguese: medium knowledge
Latin: advanced knowledge
Medieval German: medium knowledge
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