Josef Drexl

Josef Drexl (born March 20, 1962 in Fürstenfeldbruck ) is a German legal scholar. Since 2002 he has been Director at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich and honorary professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He has also headed the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center as Chairman of the Managing Board since 2009. He has been a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 2009 .

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Drexl studied law in Munich and Geneva and obtained an LL.M. at Berkeley University . He did his doctorate and habilitation with Wolfgang Fikentscher at the LMU Munich. His habilitation deals with consumer protection law. From 1997 to 2006 he taught as a full professor in Würzburg and Munich.

His main research interests are antitrust law and intellectual property law , i.e. the law of intellectual property (especially copyright ). He also deals with questions of European law , WTO law and general civil and commercial law . Professor Drexl's research is internationally oriented. He presents his research results in numerous publications, through lectures and when advising national governments and international organizations. Professor Drexl was u. a. involved in the creation of the Chinese anti-monopoly law .

In addition, Josef Drexl is a member of numerous associations and committees. He is u. a. Chairman of the competition law association ASCOLA ( Academic Society for Competition Law ) and vice-president of the commercial law association AIDE ( Association Internationale de Droit Economique ). Visiting professorships have led Professor Drexl to the University of Oxford , the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali (LUISS) in Rome and to New York University . He teaches not only at the University of Munich, but also at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC) and at the University Paris II Panthéon-Assas . He is co-editor of the journal IIC and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Research Institute for Economic Constitution and Competition (FIW) and has been a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 2009 .

literature

• Between antitrust law and commercial legal protection: Josef Drexl: Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law In: Max Planck Society: Yearbook 2003. Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-24930-6 , p. 77 -78. (Article about Drexl)

Web links

• Literature by and about Josef Drexl in the catalog of the German National Library
• FAZ interview with Josef Drexl on Chinese antitrust law
• Website of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law with further information about Josef Drexl
• Honorary professorship at the LMU Munich

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information under Munich Intellectual Property Law Center in the English Wikipedia.
2. ^ Bavarian Academy of Sciences elects new members , press release in the Science Information Service dated March 5, 2010, accessed on March 8, 2010