Nadine Klass

Nadine Klass (* 1975 in Ilmenau ) is a German legal scholar and holder of the chair for civil law , intellectual property law and German and European procedural law at the University of Mannheim .

Career

Nadine Klass studied law at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and at the University of Padua from 1994 to 1999 . She completed her dissertation on “Legal Limits of Reality Television - A Contribution to the Dogmatics of the Protection of Human Dignity and General Personal Rights” in 2003. In 2004 the second state examination followed in Munich.

She then worked as a research assistant and then assistant to Josef Drexl at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , interrupted by an LL.M. - Graduated from Victoria University of Wellington , where she wrote a thesis on Choice of Law and Copyright Ownership.

From 2007 to 2009, Klass was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich. She was a lecturer in intellectual property law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and a member of the European Max Planck Group for Conflict of Laws in Intellectual Property . In 2009 she accepted a call to a W3 professorship for civil law and commercial law , in particular intellectual property law and media law at the University of Siegen .

In 2014, Klass was Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Socio-Legal Studies at Oxford University and Member of the Senior Common Room at Lincoln College .

Since April 2017, she has held the chair for civil law, intellectual property law and German and European procedural law at the University of Mannheim.

In 2012 she became a deputy member of the Constitutional Court for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Research and Teaching

Nadine Klass mainly publishes on media and copyright law, conflict of laws and legal fact research . She comments on general personal rights in Erman's BGB commentary.

At the University of Siegen, Klass is a member of the research college "Shaping the Future Humanly" "and heads the focus" Innovation and Development ". She has been a member of the Senate since 2015 and a member of the Ethics Council of the University of Siegen and a member of the research group" Popular Cultures "since 2015.

In 2012, Klass received the Faculty III award for the best teaching at the University of Siegen.

Since 2016, Klass has been co-director of the Institute for Copyright and Media Law in Munich and editor-in-chief of the specialist lawyers for copyright and media law .

Until 2019, Klass and Dagmar Hoffmann will participate in the Collaborative Research Center 1187 “Media of Cooperation” with the project “Media Practices and Copyright Law - Social and Legal Frameworks for Cooperative and Derivative Works on the Net”.

Publications (selection)

• Nadine Klass: “Legal Limits of Reality Television. A contribution to the dogmatics of the protection of human dignity and the general right of personality ”. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 978-3-16-148363-9 .
• Nadine Klass: “Entertainment without limits? The area of ​​protection of human dignity in the program principles of the state media treaties ”. Vistas, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-89158-554-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Nadine Klass in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of the chair for civil law, intellectual property law and the German and European procedural law chair at the University of Mannheim
• Curriculum vitae of Nadine Klass on the chair's website