Axel Metzger
Axel Metzger (born May 24, 1971 in Mainz ) is a German legal scholar and has held the chair for civil law and intellectual property law , in particular industrial property law, at the Humboldt University in Berlin since October 2014 . He was founding director of the Weizenbaum Institute for the networked society from 2017 to 2019.
Career
Metzger studied law at the University of Hamburg and the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne from 1993 to 1998 and passed his first state examination in 1998 . From 1999 to 2001 he was a doctoral candidate at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the University of Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas and received his doctorate with a dissertation entitled Legal Transactions on the Droit Moral in German and French Copyright Law. He was also a doctoral candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property .
From 2000 to 2002, Metzger completed his legal clerkship with stations in the Netherlands and Hamburg . He then passed his second state examination. In addition, Metzger was a speaker at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg from 2001 to 2007 and was appointed a member of the specialist committee for copyright and publishing law of the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property and Copyright (GRUR) in 2004.
From 2005 to 2006, Metzger completed a master’s degree at Harvard Law School and obtained the academic degree of Master of Laws (LL.M.). This was followed in 2008 by the habilitation at the University of Hamburg with the title Extra legem, intra ius: General legal principles in European private law . Metzger received the Venia Legendi for civil law , business law , in particular intellectual property law , international private law and comparative law as well as legal methodology .
Following his habilitation, Metzger was appointed professor for civil law , intellectual property , information technology law and international private law at the Law Faculty of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University in Hanover in 2008. He also taught as a visiting professor at the University of Basel in 2011 and at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg in 2012 , before accepting a call to the law faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin in October 2014 .
Research priorities
Metzger's research focuses on intellectual property law and, in particular, on intellectual property law. The development in commercial legal protection has always been driven by technical innovations, in recent years especially in the areas of information technology and biotechnology . The research questions raised as a result are processed in an interdisciplinary manner and with a special focus on international issues. In recent years, Metzger has also been researching the legal issues of data markets more intensively.
Fonts (selection)
- Legal transactions about the droit moral in German and French copyright law , Verlag CHBeck , Munich 2001.
- Open source software - legal framework for free software , Verlag CHBeck (together with Till Jaeger), 1st edition Munich 2002 to 5th edition 2020.
- Intellectual Property in the Conflict of Laws (Ed. Together with Jürgen Basedow, Josef Drexl and Annette Kur), Mohr Siebeck Verlag , Tübingen 2005
- Extra legem, intra ius: General legal principles in European private law , Mohr Siebeck Verlag , Tübingen 2009.
- Intellectual Property in the Global Arena - Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, and the Recognition of Judgments in Europe, Japan and the US , Mohr Siebeck Verlag , Tübingen 2010.
- Legal protection of plant breeds (Ed.), Mohr Siebeck Verlag , Tübingen 2014.
- Plant variety protection law (published jointly with Herbert Zech), Verlag CHBeck, Munich 2016.
- Patent law: With utility model and plant variety protection law ("Start ins Legal Area ") , together with Rudolf Nirk and Eike Ullmann, Verlag CFMüller, Heidelberg 2018.
- Methodological issues of patent law, Theo Bodewig on his 70th birthday (Ed.), Verlag Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2018.
Web links
- Literature by and about Axel Metzger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Chair for civil law and intellectual property law, in particular industrial property rights, at the Humboldt University in Berlin
- ILA Committee: Intellectual Property and Private International Law
- Answers from Prof. Dr. Axel Metzger, LL.M. (Harvard) on the questions of the Bundestag committee "Digital Agenda" - meeting on December 3, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Butcher, Axel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mainz |