Florent Thouvenin

Florent Thouvenin (* 1975 ) is a Swiss lawyer and professor at the University of Zurich .

Life

Thouvenin studied law at the University of Zurich from 1995 to 2001 . After completing his studies, he worked in Zurich as a research assistant to Reto M. Hilty until 2003 . After a research stay at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property in Munich, he completed his legal clerkship as an auditor at the Zurich District Court and as a trainee at Lenz & Staehelin in Zurich. In 2007 he passed his bar exam in the canton of Zurich and completed his doctorate in the same year. iur. He then worked as a lawyer at Lenz & Staehelin.

From 2010 to 2014 he was assistant professor at the University of St. Gallen , from 2014 to 2016 at the University of Zurich. Since March 2016 he has held the extraordinary chair for information and communication law in Zurich.

Publications (selection)

• Functional systematisation of competition law (UWG) and intellectual property rights . Heymanns, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-452-26422-0 (dissertation).
• with Marcel Bircher and Roland Fischer: revision course intellectual property law: textbook and revision course with tables, exercises and solutions . 2nd publisher = Orell Füssli edition. Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-280-07228-8 .
• The cooperation agreement, cooperation in the border area of ​​contract and company law . Zurich 2016 (habilitation thesis).

Web links

• Thouvenin Chair at the University of Zurich
• Remembering and Forgetting in the Digital Age: Challenges and Solution Approaches , Lecture by Thouvenin