Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law
Prof. Dr. Josef Drexl , LL.M. (Berkeley)

Managing Director
Honorary Professor at the University of Munich

Phone:
+49 89 24246-434
Facsimile:
+49 89 24246-507
Mail:
Assistance:
Areas of Interest:

International competition law; German, European and international IP law (in particular copyright law); European and international economic law; European civil law, consumer protection, media and information law.

Academic Résumé:

Born 1962 in Germany; Study of law in Munich and Geneva; Doctorate in Munich (1990); Master of Laws at the University of California at Berkeley (1993); Postdoctoral lecture qualification in civil law, commercial law, intellectual property law, European law, and comparison of laws in Munich (1996); Professor of civil law and European economic law in Würzburg (1997); Professor of civil law, European and international commercial law in Munich (2000-2006); Director of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law (since 2002; from 2011 on Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law); Chairman of the Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA; since 2003).

Academic Prizes / Honours / Memberships etc.:

Honours:

1984/85: Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (studies in Geneva)

1991/92: Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (LL.M. studies in Berkeley)

Fall 2001: Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford

2005/06: Visiting Professor at the Libera Università degli Studi Sociali (LUISS) Guido Carli in Rom

Fall 2007: Visting Professor at the New York University (Hauser Global Law School Program)

Since 2009: Member of the International Advisory Board of the American Antitrust Institute

Since 2010: Member of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften

 

Memberships:

Academic Society of Competition Law (ASCOLA) (Chair since 2003)

Association Internationale de Droit Economique (AIDE) (Vice-Chair since 2002)  

Deutsch-Amerikanische Juristenvereinigung (DAJV)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Rechtsvergleichung

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerrecht

Deutsche Vereinigung für Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (GRUR) (Member of the Executive Committee) 

Deutsche Zivilrechtslehrervereinigung

Gesellschaft für Recht und Ökonomik 

Institut Euro-Africain de Droit Economique (INEADEC)

International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL)

International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP)

International Law Association (ILA)

International Literary and Artistic Association (ALAI)

Society for European Contract Law (SECOLA)


Current Publications:

Drexl, Josef / Na Ri Lee (Eds.): Pharmaceutical Innovation, Competition and Patent Law - a Trilateral Perspective. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2013.


Drexl, Josef: EU Competition Law and Parallel Trade in Pharmaceuticals: Lessons to be Learned for WTO/TRIPS?. In: Rosén, Jan (Eds.): Intellectual Property at the Crossroads of Trade. Cheltenham, UK / Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar, 2012, p. 3 - 24.


Drexl, Josef: Comment identifier des pools anticoncurrentiels : Regards transatlantiques et institutionnels. In: IRPI (Eds.): Propriété intellectuelle et concurrence : Pour une (ré)conciliation. Paris, LexisNexis, 2012, p. 51 - 83.


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Lectures:

 

Legal and Economic Research in Intellectual Property and Competition Law

MPG-CASS Conference on Perspectives of Cooperation

  • Location: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, München

15.06.12

The Social Dimension of Intellectual Property Law

Graduation LL.M. Program Magister Lucentinus, Universität Alicante

  • Location: Alicante

25.05.12

Beschränkungen des Innovationswettbewerbs als normative Herausforderung

Interdisziplinäres Seminar: Juristische und ökonomische Perspektiven des Innovationswettbewerbs, MPI für Immaterialgüter- und Wettbewerbsrecht

  • Location: München

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Courses:

WS 2012/13

 

Europäisches Wirtschaftsrecht

  • Location: LMU München, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, Raum A 214