Heike Schweitzer

Heike Schweitzer is a German lawyer and professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Life

Schweitzer studied law at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg with a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation and received her first state examination in 1994. After her legal clerkship in Hamburg, she passed her second state examination in 1996. She then worked as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute from 1996 to 1999 . In 1998 she had a research stay at the Hague Academy of International Law with the help of a scholarship from the Hague Acedemy and a research stay at the University of Panthéon-Assas with the help of a DAAD research grant . From 1999 to 2000, Schweitzer completed a master’s degree at Yale Law School with the help of a DAAD scholarship and obtained the academic degree of LL.M. In May 2001 he completed his doctorate at the University of Hamburg , which was awarded the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society.

She then worked as a speaker at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. From 2000 to 2002 she worked on Mestmäcker / Schweitzer, European Competition Law, 2nd edition 2004. From 2003 to 2004 she held a postdoctoral position at the Graduate College for Law & Economics at the University of Hamburg and was then from 2004 to 2006 a university assistant at the University of Hamburg at the Institute for Law and Economics and worked in the Erasmus Mundus LL.M. program for Law & Economics. From 2005 to 2006 Schweitzer was John M. Olin Research Fellow at the Center for Law and Economic Studies at Columbia University in New York and worked on the research project The private law of corporate acquisitions and the acquisition of corporate control . From 2006 she was a professor at the European University Institute (EUI) and held a Chair for Competition Law and a Joint Chair with the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies. From 2010 she held the chair for civil law with a focus on antitrust law at the University of Mannheim .

From March 2014 to March 2018, Schweitzer held the chair for civil law, competition and regulatory law at the Free University of Berlin . On April 1, 2018, she accepted an offer at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From April 1, 2018 to March 31, 2019, Heike Schweitzer has also been appointed as Special Advisor to the EU Commissioner for Competition , Margrethe Vestager , for questions of competition policy in the context of digitization.

Research priorities and memberships

Schweitzer's research focuses on antitrust law, civil law and European business law.

Since January 2014 she has also been a member of the Kronberger Kreis , the scientific advisory board of the Market Economy Foundation .

At the eleventh annual meeting of the Academic Society for Competition Law (Ascola), she was elected Vice-Chair in 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from March 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b} https://ec.europa.eu/commission/commissioners/2014-2019/vestager/announcements/commission-appoints-professors-heike-schweitzer-jacques-cremer-and-assistant-professor-yves_en
3. ↑ Michal Gal elected Chair of Ascola - Heike Schweitzer Vice Chair. Ascola, July 2, 2016, accessed August 4, 2016 .