Dirk Uwer

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Dirk Uwer (2017)

Dirk Uwer (born October 26, 1969 in Siegen / Westphalia) is a German lawyer, lawyer and honorary professor .

education

After graduating from high school Am Rosterberg (today Peter-Paul-Rubens-Gymnasium) in Siegen (1989) Uwer began studying law and linguistics and literature at the University of Trier ; an Erasmus scholarship took him to the University of Ferrara / Italy in 1992/93 . With his dissertation media concentration and safeguarding pluralism in the light of the European Human Rights Press Freedom , he was in the winter semester 1997/98 at Michael Kloepfer at the Humboldt University of Berlin PhD . His dissertation was awarded the Science Prize for European Research from the Association of Berlin Merchants and Industrialists , and its publication was supported by the Donors' Association of the Press.

He completed an interdisciplinary degree in administrative sciences at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer with a Magister rerum publicarum under the supervision of Peter Schiwy . At Northumbria University Newcastle , England , he completed a master's program (LL.M.) specializing in European law . From 1997 to 1999 he did his legal preparatory service as a trainee lawyer at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court .

job

From 1994 to 1997, Uwer was a research assistant at the Institute for Environmental and Technology Law at the University of Trier , with Udo Di Fabio among others . After passing the second state examination in law, he joined the Düsseldorf office of Hengeler Mueller as a lawyer in 1999 and became its partner on January 1, 2006. In 2001/2002 he worked as a lawyer at the British law firm Slaughter and May in London .

His legal work focuses on public commercial law including European, constitutional and administrative law, environmental law, energy law, health law, in particular pharmaceutical law, data protection law and foreign trade law, compliance, internal investigations and commercial criminal law as well as the law of the liberal professions. He represents domestic and foreign clients before the German constitutional and administrative courts, the European courts and in proceedings before the European Commission .

As a German lawyer, Uwer is listed in international and national lawyers' directories in the areas of public commercial law, environmental law, energy law and life sciences, including:

  • Juve
  • Chambers Europe
  • Who's Who Legal
  • Best Lawyers International
  • LMG Life Sciences Europe 2014
  • Expert Guide, Energy and Natural Resources

Uwer was a Steering Committee Member of the International Environmental Law Forum in New York in 2008 and from 2015 to 2017 a Steering Committee Member of the Forum on International Privacy Law.

In the Handelsblatt's Best Lawyers Ranking 2018 , Uwer was named the best lawyer in the field of regulation.

Teaching

In 2016, Uwer was appointed honorary professor at the Faculty of Economics at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences and teaches international and European law, constitutional law, public commercial and regulatory law as well as human rights and international law and the like. a. in an English-language Master of Business Administration course .

Uwer has been a lecturer at the Executive School of Management, Technology and Law at the University of St. Gallen since 2010 . There he teaches as part of the u. a. postgraduate, integrated course HM Akademie St. Gallen developed by him together with Leo Staub for the field of public business law. The five-year program concludes with a certificate after two and a half years and with a Diploma of Advanced Studies from the University of St. Gallen after five years.

Uwer also teaches at the Faculty of Law at the Free University of Berlin , in the Master’s program in European and International Energy Law at the Technical University of Berlin and in the inter-university Master’s program at the German Sport University in Cologne and the Justus Liebig University in Gießen .

Director of the Institute for Regulation and Governance

In 2017, Uwer founded the interdisciplinary Institute for Regulation and Governance, together with the legal scholar Martin Nolte and the economist Franz W. Peren, located on the campus of the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences and acts as its managing director. The institute deals with German, European and international energy, telecommunications, regulatory, competition and public commercial law, with European and constitutional law as well as economic and business analysis and strategic planning of corporate decisions. The institute pays particular attention to the consideration of regulatory and regulatory policy, including corporate social responsibility and the sustainable development of control and regulation systems in the government and public sector as well as in the private sector ( governance ).

Memberships

Uwer has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Law School of the University of St. Gallen since 2015, board member of the Düsseldorf Bar Association, since 2019 of the Professional Law Committee and since 2020 of the Europe Committee of the German Bar Association as well as a member of numerous scientific societies, including:

Private

Dirk Uwer is married and has two children. The family lives in Düsseldorf-Grafenberg and at Schloss Wiesenburg in Brandenburg .

Publications

Uwer is the author of over 100 publications on questions of public commercial law, constitutional and European law.

His most important recent publications include:

  • Limits to European Standardization - EU Competencies and European Fundamental Rights. Hamburg: Bucerius Law School Press, 2015. (Mithrsg. With Doris König and co-author)
  • Gambling regulation. State Treaty on Gambling and ancillary laws: Commentary. Cologne: Carl Heymanns, 2016. (co-editor and co-author)
  • Pricing and Reimbursement - Germany, in: Manley / Marina Vickers (Ed.), Navigating European Pharmaceutical Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015 (with K. Wodarz)
  • "Data protection in corporate transactions", "Energy (energy industry / renewable energies)" and "Transactions in the pharmaceutical industry", in: Wolfgang Meyer-Sparenberg / Christof Jäckle (eds.), Beck'sches Handbuch Mergers & Acquisitions, Munich: CH Beck , 2017
  • Environmental Law in the Commercial Code: The Promotion of Corporate Social Responsibility with the Means of Non-Financial Reporting, in: Reiff / Proelß / Hofmann / Hebeler (ed.), Yearbook of Environmental and Technology Law 2017, Berlin: E. Schmidt, 2017 (with M. Schramm)
  • Outsourcing of digital functions, in: Journal for the entire commercial and economic law, 183 (2019), pp. 154–168
  • Commentary on §§ 40–47, 60–65, in: Assmann / Pötzsch / Schneider (ed.), Securities Acquisition and Takeover Act (WpÜG), 3rd edition, Cologne: Dr. Otto Schmidt, 2020

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter-Paul-Rubens-Gymnasium - start. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Donors' Association of the Press e. V. Accessed on June 9, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ Hengeler Mueller - Prof. Dr. Dirk Uwer . In: Hengeler Mueller . August 15, 2016 ( hengeler.com [accessed June 9, 2020]).
  4. ^ Slaughter and May - Home. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .
  5. ↑ JUVE - www.juve.de: JUVE HANDBUCH «JUVE. Accessed June 9, 2020 (German).
  6. ^ Law Business Research Ltd, http://www.lbresearch.com : The Latest Legal News, Research and Legal Profiles - Who's Who Legal . In: Who's Who Legal . ( whoswholegal.com [accessed June 9, 2020]).
  7. ↑ Best Lawyers List for Germany | Best Lawyers. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Home. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Germany's best lawyers. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Home. Accessed June 9, 2020 (German).
  11. ↑ University of St.Gallen | University | Advisory Board Law School HSG. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .
  12. ^ Düsseldorf Bar Association. In: https://www.rak-dus.de/die-kammer/praesidium-und-vorstand/ . Retrieved June 9, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Professional law. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Europe. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .
  15. ↑ WisteV - Economic Criminal Association e. V. Accessed on June 9, 2020 (German).
  16. ^ Publications Dirk Uwer. In: Hengeler Mueller. Hengeler Mueller, September 1, 2019, accessed June 9, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Uwer, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, attorney and honorary professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Siegen , Westphalia