Professorship for Civil Law, Commercial Law and Competition Law

Prof. Dr. Jens-Uwe Franck, LL.M. (Yale)

Jens-Uwe Franck holds the Professorship for Civil Law, Commercial Law and Competition Law. As part of the LL.B. Program he teaches, inter alia, courses on consumer protection law as well as on competition law. Moreover, he teaches the course on the European Market Freedoms as part of the M.C.B.L. degree and on Comparative Competition Law as part of the master’s degree in Competition and Regulation.

Jens-Uwe Franck has been appointed as Non-Governmental Advisor for the German Federal Cartel Office within the International Competition Network (ICN).

Research focus

While his research focus is on competition law, research projects regularly focus on cross-cutting issues and therefore also concern banking law and securities regulation as well as consumer protection law.

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Mannheim Professor of Law Advises Federal Ministry of Finance on Simplifying Corporate Tax

Together with 12 other experts, Professor Dr. Erik Röder prepared a report with proposals for simplifying corporate taxation and lessen the bureaucratic burden on companies. The report has now been handed over to Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner.

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Professor Oliver Brand Elected to the Presidential Council of the International Association for Insurance Law

At the XVI World Congress of Insurance Law in Melbourne, Australia, Professor Oliver Brand, holder of the chair of Private Law, Insurance Law, Business Law and Comparative Law, was elected to the Presidential Council, the highest decision-making body of the International Association for Insurance ...

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Professor Jochen Taupitz Appointed to the Commission on Reproductive Self-Determination and Health

Over the next twelve months, the commission is to address the revision of legislation on reproductive medicine and the future of Section 218 of the German Criminal Code (StGB) regulating abortion.

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New Research Project Will Analyze Genetic Newborn Screening with Regard to Legal Implications, Values, Ethics, and Society

For their research project “NEW_LIVES”, researchers of Heidelberg University Hospital and the University of Mannheim will receive funding of several millions of euros from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Professor Dr. Dr. Eva Winkler from Heidelberg University Hospital will ...

Professorship for Civil Law, Commercial Law and Competition Law

Prof. Dr. Jens-Uwe Franck, LL.M. (Yale)

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