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Prof. Dr. iur. Andreas Heinemann, Diplom-Ökonom, DIAP (ENA, Paris)

Ordinary Professor at the University of Zurich

Vice-Dean for International Relations of the Faculty of Law

Permanent Visiting Professor at the University of Lausanne

Former President of the Swiss Competition Commission (until the end of 2022)

   

1981 - 1988 Studies in economics and law at the universities of Bonn, Hagen, Geneva, Strasbourg and Munich 
1989 - 1992 Legal trainee period in Berlin (including internships in Stockholm, Paris and Munich) 
1990 - 1991

Cycle International of the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA) in Paris (Diplôme International d'Administration Publique - DIAP)

1993 - 2000 University of Munich (Institute for International Law – European and International Economic Law; 1993-1996 also at the Max-Planck-Institute for foreign and international patent, copyright and competition law) 
1995 PhD thesis entitled  "Grenzen staatlicher Monopole im EG-Vertrag" with Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Fikentscher (Prix Jean Rey 1995 of the University of Liège; Faculty prize 1995 of the Faculty of Law of the University of Munich) 
1996 On behalf of GtZ (German technical cooperation body) two stays in Ulaanbaatar: Draft competition law for Mongolia
2000 Habilitation thesis entitled "Immaterialgüterschutz in der Wettbewerbsordnung"; venia legendi for private law, commercial and economic law, intellectual property, European law and comparative law 
2000 - 2001 Acting chair at the universities of Munich, Jena and Lausanne
2001 - 2007

Chair at the University of Lausanne

Vice-Dean from 2004 to 2006

since 2007

Chair of Commercial, Economic and European Law at the University of Zurich

Permanent visiting professor at the university of Lausanne

2011 - 2022

Member of the Swiss Competition Commission;
Vice-Presiden
t from 2012 to 2017;
President from 2018 to 2022

2019 - 2022 Member of the Bureau of the OECD Competition Committee
   
Research focus Swiss, European and International economic law with special interest in competition and intellectual property law
   
Research stays and guest professorships

New York University School of Law, Senior Global Research Fellow (autumn 2010)

University of Haifa (2013, 2014 and 2019)

University of Uppsala (autumn 2016)

Victoria University of Wellington (spring 2023)

Tulane University School of Law, New Orleans, Coleman Visitors Fellowship (January/February 2024)

   
Visiting professor

LUISS Rom, Master in Diritto della concorrenza e dell'innovazione

Université de Genève, CAS Digital Finance Law

TU Berlin, Masterstudiengang European and International Energy Law (2015 - 2023)

CEIPI Strasbourg, Advanced Course Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer and Licensing (2015 - 2019)

     
Further activities Bilingual Joint Degree, Master's programme in law Lausanne – Zurich, design and supervision since its inception in 2012 
 

LL.M. International Economic Law, Study Commission and Steering Committee (University or Zurich)

LL.M. International Business Transactions and Technology Transfer, Specialization Course Coordinator (University of Zurich)

  Europa Institut at University of Zurich (EIZ), Board of Directors and Executive Committee
  Advisory Board of the journal "Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb"
  Committee for competition law of the Deutsche Vereinigung für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (GRUR)
  Gesellschaft für Rechtsvergleichung
  Zivilrechtslehrervereinigung
  Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA)
  Association Internationale de Droit Economique (AIDE)
  Swiss Association for Intellectual Property Law (INGRES)