since 1 January 2016
University Professor, Chair in Public Law, Empirical Legal Research and Law & Economics at EBS Law School, EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, Wiesbaden
Professor of Law & Economics, EBS Business School, Oestrich-Winkel
since 1 October 2023 Vice-Dean Research, EBS Law School
since 1 February 2022 Director, BRYTER Center for Digitalization & Law
1 March 2018 – 30 June 2020 Dean, EBS Law School
since 1 August 2021
since 1 April 2016
Research Affiliate, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods (Department Prof. Dr. Christoph Engel), Bonn
since 2014
General Manager, Treuhand Weinheim Rechtsanwalts- und Steuerberatungsgesellschaft mbH, Weinheim
since 2008
Member of the Board of Partners, Freudenberg & Co. KG, Weinheim
since 2011 Member of the Advisory Board of Freudenberg SE
since 2008
Volunteer work at Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)
Reviewer, Selection Panel, Summer Schools etc.
since 2007
Attorney (Rechtsanwalt), admitted to the bar
since 2020 in towfigh.law professional partnership, Frankfurt am Main
Field of work:
- Non-Profit Associations, Trusts, Family Office
- Constitutional Law (focus on law & religion), Anti-Discrimination Law
- Law and Economics, Empirical Legal Research
1 July 2007 – 31 March 2016
Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods (Department Prof. Dr. Christoph Engel), Bonn
2007 – 2013 Member of the Scientific Council of the Max Planck Society and Ombudsperson for Good Scientific Practice
Fall/Winter 2015/16
Visiting Professor of Law, Chair in Public Law, Public International Law and European Law (Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ingolf Pernice), Faculty of Law, Humboldt University Berlin
Spring/Summer 2015
Visiting Professor of Law, Professorship for Public Law and Public International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Münster
Fall/Winter 2014/15
Visiting Professor of Law, Chair in Public Law (Prof. Dr. Hans Michael Heinig), Faculty of Law, Universität Göttingen
2011 – 2016
Elected Member, Young Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
2014 – 16 Member of the Board, 2014/15 Speaker of the Board
2005 – 2007
Clerkship and Second State Exam in Law (Bar Exam equivalent), Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht) Düsseldorf; admitted to the bar
2003 – 2007
Research and Teaching Fellow, Chair in Public Law and Public Administration (Prof. Dr. Janbernd Oebbecke), Faculty of Law, University of Münster
2003 – 2005
Dr. iur. (Ph.D. in Law equivalent) University of Münster
1998-2002
Student Assistant, Chair in Public Law and Public Administration (Prof. Dr. Janbernd Oebbecke), Faculty of Law, University of Münster
1997 – 2002
Studies of Law, Economics and Modern Chinese at the Universities of Münster (Germany) and of Nanjing (P.R. China)
