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Tim W. Dornis
Curriculum Vitae
October 20, 2011
PROF. TIM W. DORNIS
PH. D. (TUEBINGEN), JSM (STANFORD)
Email: [email protected]
EDUCATION
Stanford Law School, Palo Alto/USA
J.S.M. (SPILS Fellow)
Scholarship award: German Research Foundation (Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft)
2009
Eberhard-Karls-University, Tuebingen/Germany
Ph.D. (= Dr. iur.), highest distinction (summa cum laude)
Prizes awarded: Reinhold-und-Maria-Teufel Award; Deutsche
Bank AG/db real estate & Society for Real Estate Scholarship,
Real Estate Scholarship Award
2005
Columbia University School of Law, New York/USA
LL.M., highest distinction (James Kent Scholar)
Scholarship award: German Academic Exchange Service
(DAAD) and Alfred-Gleiss-Foundation
2003
Circuit Court of Stuttgart/Germany
Second State Exam (bar equivalent), highest distinction,
top 1% state-wide
2001
Eberhard-Karls-University, Tuebingen/Germany
First State Exam (J.D. equivalent), highest distinction,
top 1% state-wide
1999
WORK EXPERIENCE
Leuphana University Lüneburg/Germany
Professor of Law: Chair of Private Law, International Private
and Economic Law, and Comparative Law
2011-
District Court of Stuttgart/Germany
Judge
Special competence: IP, banking, and insurance law
20062011
Gleiss Lutz Lawyers, Stuttgart
Attorney-at-law (IP law and litigation)
20042006
University of Augsburg/Germany
Assistant professor of law (contract law & civil procedure)
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Clayton Utz Lawyers, Sydney/Australia
Legal intern (international product liability & insurance law)
District Court of Tuebingen/Germany
Law clerk (“Referendar”)
2001
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OTHER ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
University of Augsburg/Germany
Adjunct professor (private international law)
T-Online International AG, Darmstadt/Germany
Corporate counsel, IP & unfair competition law
2005
Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York/USA
New York Bar Exam, admitted since May 2004
2003
Alpmann & Schmidt, Repetitorium, Tuebingen/Germany
Bar exam preparation courses (“Barbri” equivalent)
Instructor/lecturer
2001
Eberhard-Karls-University, Tuebingen/Germany
Research/teaching assistant and lecturer in private law,
European private law, civil procedure
2011-
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (IN ENGLISH & GERMAN)
Books
Kaufpreiszahlung auf Notaranderkonto – Erfüllung, Pfändung,
Insolvenz
(Payment on a Trust Account – Performance, Seizure, Insolvency), Ph.D. thesis, 209 pages, published by Verlag Dr. Otto
Schmidt, Cologne/Germany
2005
Current Project (Habilitation thesis): Transnational Goodwill,
Transnational Policy – International Trademark Law in Historical, Economic, and Doctrinal Perspective
Treatises
Honsell (ed.), Kommentar zum UN-Kaufrecht
(Treatise on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the
International Sale of Goods (CISG)), 2nd edition, Artt. 14-24
2009
Erman, Kommentar zum Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch
(Treatise on the German Civil Code), 13th edition, §§ 677-687
(negotiorum gestio)
2011
Articles (in English)
Contribution and Indemnification among Joint Tortfeasors in
Multi-State Conflict Cases – A Study of Doctrine and the Current Law in the US and under the Rome II Regulation, Journal of
Private International Law (JPrivIntL) 2008, 237-277
2008
”When in Rome, do as the Romans do?“ – A Defense of the Lex
Domicilii Communis in the Rome-II-Regulation, The European
Legal Forum (EuLF) 2007, 152-159.
2007
Articles (in German)
Current project: Das Dilemma der Erbensucher – Versuch der
ökonomisch-analytischen Befreiung aus einer dogmatischen
Sackgasse
(The heir searcher’s dilemma – An economic analysis of doctrinal cul-de-sacs)
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Current project: Die auftragslose Geschäftsführung – Rechtsinstitut zwischen privater Selbstbestimmung und Wohlfahrtsmaximierung
(The law of rescue and salvage (negotiorum gestio) in historical
and economic analysis – The Good Samaritan in German private
law)
Die „bestmögliche Rückläuferverwertung“ – der Anfang vom
Ende des Fahrzeugleasing, ZGS 2010, 1009-115
(Contractual risk allocation – a particular view on leasing contracts under a law & economics perspective)
2010
Der „Anschein eines besonders günstigen Angebots“ im Sinne
des § 16 Abs. 1 UWG, GRUR 2008, 742-749
(Unfair Advertising under § 16 German Unfair Competition Act)
2008
„Phishing“ im Marken(straf)recht, C&R 2007, 642-646
(with Simon Markus Beck)
(„Phishing“ as Trademark Infringement)
2007
Der „Schenkkreis“ in der Strafbarkeitslücke? – Zum Tatbestandsmerkmal des „geschäftlichen Verkehrs“ in § 16 Abs. 2
UWG, WRP 2007, 1303-1307
(The Requirement of “Acting in Commerce” for Unfair Competition Crimes)
2007
Die Unterwerfung: Rechtsnatur und Rechtsnachfolge, GRUR
2006, 195-201 (with Achim Förster)
(Cease-and-Desist-Declaration: Legal Doctrine and Succession)
2006
„Umfassender und andauernder Rechtsfrieden“ in Versicherungssachen von Holocaust-Opfern nach der Entscheidung des
U.S. Supreme Court vom 23.06.2003?, VersR 2003, 1235-1238
(Complete and Enduring Legal Certainty in HolocaustInsurance-Claim Matters after the Supreme Court Decision of
June 23, 2003?)
2003
U.S. Supreme Court entscheidet über „Mickey Mouse Protection
Act“, ZUM 2003, 517-521
(U.S. Supreme Court decides on ”Mickey Mouse Protection
Act“)
2003
Europäische Versicherer im Visier amerikanischer Bundesgerichte, VersR 2003, 570-574
(European Insurance Companies and Holocaust Liability)
2003
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Annotations/Commentaries/Reviews
Review of Jürgen Basedow, Toshiyuki Kono & Axel Metzger
(eds.), Intellectual Property in the Global Arena (Max-PlanckInstitut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, Mohr
Siebeck 2010), in: The Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law (RabelsZ) 2011
(forthcoming)
2011
Annotation: OLG Stuttgart, Beschluss vom 12.02.2008 – 2 Ws
328/07, Urheberrecht und Internet: Öffentliche Zugänglichmachung von Audiodateien bei Music-on-Demand-Diensten, C&R
2008, 319-322
(Copyright and the Internet: The Right of Making Available and
Music-on-Demand-Services)
2008
Annotation: BGH, Urt. v. 11.11.2004, I ZR 182/02 („Testamentsvollstreckung durch Steuerberater“), EWiR 2005, 405-406
(Annotation to the Federal Court of Justice Decision I ZR
182/02)
2005
Conference Papers (in English)
Extra-Territoriality and Trans-National Goodwill – An Empirical Study of United States Case Law from 1952 until 2008
2009
“Building Bridges Between the Islands” – Why Separate Conventions Lead Separate Lives, Against an Undifferentiated Application of the 1980 UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and the 2006 Convention on the Use of
Electronic Communications in International Contracts by an
“Interpretation in Context”
2009
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SELECTED PRESENTATIONS (IN ENGLISH & GERMAN)
2011
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private
Law, Hamburg (Germany), 9 May 2011,
Topic: ”A Historical and Comparative Analysis of German and
United States Trademark and Unfair Competition Conflicts Doctrine“
2010
Leuphana University Lüneburg (Germany), 9 September 2010,
Topic: “An Economic Analysis of Moral Rights in Civil Law
Copyright Protection”
Leuphana University Lüneburg (Germany), 8 September 2010,
Topic: “The Process of Trans-Nationalization in European Business Law”
2009
Bay Area Fellows Technology & Intellectual Property Law
Workshop, Berkeley University School of Law, Boalt Hall,
7 May 2009
Topic: “Extra-Territorial Trademark Protection in United States
Federal Courts, 1947-2008”
Stanford Law School, Stanford, USA, JSD Research Colloquium, 7 April 2009
Topic: “Extra-Territorial Trademark Protection in United States
Federal Courts, 1947-2008”
2008
Conference of the Department of Justice, State of BadenWuerttemberg, Titisee, 20 June 2008
Topic: “§ 16 UWG – Werbung zwischen Vermögens- und Wettbewerbsschutz“
(Section 16 German Unfair Competition Act – Advertising between Competition and Fraud)
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2007
Department of the Interior, State of Baden-Wuerttemberg,
Boeblingen, 24 October 2007
Topic: “Internationale Produktpiraterie in Theorie und Praxis“
(International Product Piracy – Current Developments in Doctrine and Practice)
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