Heike Schweitzer
Curriculum Vitae
Positions:
Since October 2006: Professor of Law at the EUI, Chair for Competition Law, Joint Chair with the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
September 2005 – August 2006: John M. Olin Research Fellow at ColumbiaLawSchool, NYC, USA
April 2004 – September 2006: Junior Professor at the Erasmus Mundus Programme for Law & Economics, University of Hamburg, Germany.
January 2003 – March 2004: Postdoc position at the GraduateCollege for LawEconomics, Hamburg, Germany.
fall 1996 - summer 1999 andFall 2000 – End of 2002: Research Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private Law, Hamburg.
Education:
June 2001: Doctoral Degree, University of Hamburg
Sept. 1999 – May 2000: YaleLawSchool, New Haven, LL.M.-Program
Fall 1994 – Fall 1996: “Referendariat” (Junior Lawyership) in Hamburg, Germany; SecondLegalState Exam: September 1996
Fall 1987 – Fall 1988 and Fall 1990 – Febr. 1994: Albert-Ludwigs-UniversityLawSchool, Freiburg, Germany. FirstLegalState Exam: January 1994
Awards and Scholarships:
Award of the Otto-Hahn-Medal of the Max-Planck Society in May 2000 for the dissertation on “Daseinsvorsorge, ‘Service Public’, Universal Service”
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Scholarship for the Yale LL.M.-program: Sept. 1999 – May 2000
Scholarship of the HagueAcademy of International Law in Sept. 1998
DAAD Scholarship for a 5-months research stay in Paris, Paris I: May – Aug. 1998
Member of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (Study Foundation of the German People) since 1988
Publications:
Monographs:
Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker/Heike Schweitzer, Europäisches Wettbewerbsrecht Beck-Verlag, München 2004 (1200 p.)
Heike Schweitzer,Daseinsvorsorge, „service public“, Universaldienst. Art. 86 Abs. 2 EG-Vertrag und die Liberalisierung in den Sektoren Telekommunikation, Energie und Post, Diss., Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden 2001/2002 (450 p.)
Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker / Heike Schweitzer, Netzwettbewerb, Netzzugang und „Roaming“ im Mobilfunk, Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden 1999 (150 p.)
Essays:
Heike Schweitzer, Zurechnung von Wissen beim Unternehmenskauf, in: Eger et. al. (eds.), Festschrift Hans-Bernd Schäfer, 2008 [in print]
Heike Schweitzer, Private Legal Transplants in Negotiated Deals, 4 ECFR 2007, 79-125
Heike Schweitzer / Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker, Art. 31/Art. 86 EG-Vertrag, in: Immenga/Mestmäcker, Europäisches Wettbewerbsrecht, Kommentar, München, 3. Aufl. 2007
Heike Schweitzer, Öffentliche Unternehmen im Binnenmarkt – Zurück zur Prärogative mitgliedstaatlicher Wirtschaftspolitik? - Die Kompetenzverteilung zwischen Gemeinschaft und Mitgliedstaaaten als Auslegungsprinzip in der neueren Rspr. des EuGH zu Art. 31, Art. 86 und Art. 87 EG -, in: Behrens/Braun (eds.), Europäisches Wettbewerbsrecht nach der Reform, Baden-Baden 2006
Heike Schweitzer, „Handelsvertreterverträge im europäischen Wettbewerbsrecht“, in: Hopt / Tzouganatos (eds.), Europäisierung des Handels- und Wirtschaftsrecht, Tübingen 2006, 195-219
Heike Schweitzer, Die Daseinsvorsorge im Verfassungsentwurf des Europäischen Konvents – Ein europäischer “service public”?, in: Jürgen Schwarze (Hrsg.), Der Verfassungsentwurf des Europäischen Konvents. Verfassungsrechtliche Grundstrukturen und wirtschaftsverfassungsrechtliches Konzept, Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden 2004, S. 269-312.
Heike Schweitzer, Die rechtliche Bedeutung von Angehörigenverhältnissen im Rahmen der Konzentrationskontrolle nach dem Rundfunkstaatsvertrag, Zeitschrift für Urheber- und Medienrecht (ZUM) 1998, 597-615.
Working Papers:
Heike Schweitzer, Competition law and public policy: reconsidering an uneasy relationship, EUI Working Paper 2007
Heike Schweitzer, Controlling the unilateral exercise of intellectual property r rights, EUI Working Paper 2007
Heike Schweitzer, The History, Interpretation and Underlying Principles of Sec. 2 Sherman Act and Art. 82 EC, EUI Working Paper 2007
Recent Presentations at Conferences:
2nd ASCOLA Conference on Economic Theory and Competition Law, 8/9 Dec. 2006 in Paris, with a contribution on “Considering Public Policy Goals in Competition Law?”
1st ECFR Symposium 2006 on “Cross-Border Company Transactions” at the Universita Bocconi, Milan, with a contribution on “Private Legal Transplants in Negotiated Deals”
Faculty Seminar, EUI,6 March 2007;presentation on “The role of public policy goals in competition law”
Workshop on Intellectual Property, Market Power and Public Interest College of Europe, Bruges, 20 April 2007; presentation on “The U.S. experience with controlling the unilateral exercise of intellectual property rights: Which lessons for Europe?”
GraduateCollegefor “Law and Economics”, HamburgUniversity, May 22, 2007: Presentation on “Competition Law in a historical perspective: the drafting history of the EU competition rules and the evolution of the European approach towards competition law in the formative years of the EU”
Project AgirE, Conference on “Les restructurations des entreprises et les politiques éuropéennes”, Florence, June 4/5 2007; presentation on: “The coordination of economic and social policies in the EU and its relation to competition policy: Can employment policy goals be considered in EU merger control?”
12th EUI Competition Law and Policy Workshop, Florence, June 8/9 2007 on “A reformed approach to Article 82 EC”; presentation on: “Parallels and differences in the attitudes towards and rules regarding market power: What are the reasons?”
Master of European Governance and Administration (MEGA), Florence, June 26 2007:Die Auslegung, Anwendung und Durchsetzung des europaeischen Wettbewerbsrechts nach der Reform – ein Beispiel fuer „new modes of (good?) governance“ in Europa?
Summit atComo: A Discussion of Competition Policy, Law and Economics, 27. Oct. 2007: Presentation on: „Does Microsoft make new law?”
Editorships:
Co-editor of the „Schriftenreihe zum Europäischen und Internationalen Privat-, Bank- und Wirtschaftsrecht“ – De Gruyter Verlag, ab 2004 (editors: Behrens / Eidenmüller / Grundmann / Kalss / Kerber / Riesenhuber / Schweitzer /Schwintowski / Singer / Windbichler) [publication of dissertations, conference papers, other academic monographies etc.]
Memberships:
Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA)
Arbeitskreis Kartellrecht beim Bundeskartellamt
Gesellschaft für Rechtsvergleichung e.V.
European Corporate Governance Institute (ecgi)
Walter-Eucken Institut e.V.
Verein der Freunde des Max-Planck-Instituts fürausländisches und internationales Privatrecht e.V.
Seminars For 2007/2008:
EU competition law and US antitrust law – A comparative perspective (together with Prof. Giuliano Amato) (EUI – Fall 2007)
European and international economic law
(together with Prof. Ulrich Petersmann) (EUI – Spring 2008)
Seminars recently tought:
Mergers and Acquisitions – Corporate Governance and Merger Control (EUI – Spring 2007)
Telecommunications Law – Competition and Regulation for Competition (EUI – Fall 2006)
Corporate Governance – A European and Comparative Perspective(Hamburg, Spring 2005)
Tort and Contract Law in a Comparative and Economic Perspective (Hamburg, Fall 2004)
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