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Philipp Niklot Hacker, LL.M. (Yale)

Curriculum Vitae

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Kremmener Str. 15A

D-10435 Berlin

Germany

email: [email protected]

cell phone number: +49 1575 4854653

DATE OF BIRTH:

15.01.1985

Born in Wrzburg, Germany

EDUCATION:

1995

Admission to Wirsberg High School in Wrzburg, Germany

March to July 2000

Attendance of the German School of Paris

August to December 2001

Attendance of the private Casady High School, Oklahoma City, USA

June 2004

Final exams at Wirsberg High School, Germany, with advanced level classes in mathematics

and French;

Grade: 1.0 (on a scale ranging from maximum of 1,0 to a minimum of 4,0; Top 3 high school

graduates in all Bavaria)

Winter Term 2004/05 Summer Term 2009 Legal studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Main courses and seminars: Antitrust Law, European Economic Law, Media Law, Unfair

Competition Law, Intellectual Property Law

Summer Term 2005 and Winter Term 2005/06

Secondary studies in philosophy at the University of Philosophy, Munich

February August 2007 Exchange semester at the law school of the University of Salamanca, Spain

Main courses: Contract Law and Private International Law

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April 2009 April 2010 Secondary studies in German literature and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University

Munich

Agnes Ament Scholarship of the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich for these studies

July 2009

First State Exam in law

Grade: 13,65 (out of 18)

Top 0,5 % of class

May 2010 May 2012 Compulsory legal trainee program (Rechtsreferendariat) in Berlin

May 2012

Second State Exam

Grade: 12,26 (out of 18)

Top 1 % of class

Since July 2012

Ph.D. with Professor Dr. Dr. Stefan Grundmann, LL.M. (Berkeley) at Humboldt University of

Berlin on alternatives to the information model in private law and the normative implications

of behavioral economics

October 2013 May 2014 LL.M. program at Yale University

Main classes: securities regulation and corporate law; contracts; behavioral law and

economics; political and legal philosophy

Grades: straight Honors for all graded classes; a final grade for the entire LL.M. does not exist at Yale

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

August September 2006 Internship with the law firm SKW Schwarz in Munich

Focus of activities: Intellectual Property, especially Trademark Law, Corporate and Contract

Law

June 2007

Internship with the law firm of Professor Llamas Pombo in Salamanca, Spain

Focus of activities: Spanish Private, Corporate and Insolvency law

July 2007

Internship with Roxin Rechtsanwlte Focus of activities: Commercial and Tax Penal Law

December 2007 May 2010 Scientific assistant to Professor Wolfgang Fikentscher, at the Ludwig Maximilian University

Munich, Chair for European and International Competition Law, and at the Max-Planck-

Institute for Competition, Intellectual Property and Tax Law in Munich

Main topics: Legal Anthropology, Antitrust Law, Law of the Capital Markets


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January April 2010 Scientific assistant to the Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Competition, Intellectual

Property and Tax Law, Professor Josef Drexl

Main topic: Study project in the Law of the Capital Markets

July 2012 July 2013 Scientific assistant at Noerr LLP in the corporate law department

October 2012 April 2013 Teaching assistant at Humboldt University of Berlin in commercial and company law

January July 2013 and again since December 2014 Initiation and organization of the PhD seminar at Professor Grundmanns chair

January May 2014 Initiation and organization of the reading group The Debates on Rationality in Social and Legal Analyses at Yale Law School, jointly with Professor David Singh Grewal

Since October 2014

Scientific assistant at Professor Grundmanns chair at Humboldt University of Berlin

AWARDS AND MEMBERSHIPS:

1999/ 2000

Second prize in the final round of the Bavarian State Mathematics Competition

2003

Second prize in the first round of the German National Mathematics Competition

First Prize with the languages English and French in the final round of the German National

Foreign Language Competition, the largest and most competitive language competition in the

country, sponsored by the German Government; 2 4 individuals receive the First Prize every year after four rounds of selection out of roughly 800 initial candidates

Subsequent admission to the German National Scholarship Foundation (membership until

October 2009), the most common scholarship foundation in the country capitalized by the

German Government

2004

Passing of the Bavarian Special Exam for Highly Gifted Students and subsequent admission

to the Bavarian Scholarship Association

Apollinaire-Award of the Robert Bosch Foundation for special merits in the French Advanced

Level Class

Admission to the Stiftung Maximilianeum in Munich, an institution awarding free board and

lodging during the time of studies to students from all disciplines within the House of the


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Bavarian Parliament; the scholarship is limited to 4 8 students admitted each year out of approximately 400 passing the final high school exams in Bavaria with the top grade of 1,0

2005

Second prize with the languages of French and English in the final round of the German

National Foreign Language Competition

2013

ERP Scholarship of the German National Scholarship Foundation (European Recovery

Program) to support the completion of the LL.M. program

Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to support the completion

of the LL.M. program

Arthur T. Vanderbilt Scholarship of NYU (rejected)

Elsa-Neumann-Scholarship of Berlin to support the completion of the PhD thesis in law

PUBLICATIONS:

Papers:

Korruptionsamnestie: Eine neue Vokabel im nachhaltigen Kampf gegen Korruption [Amnesty for Corruption: A New Term in the Fight against Corruption], Zeitschrift fr Rechtspolitik 2009, 4-6 (with Alexander Schemmel).

Rechtsgeschfte mit Unbekannten? Zu dogmatischen und praktischen Tcken im Umgang mit kartellrechtswidrigen Joint Ventures [Transactions with Unknown Parties? On Doctrinary and

Practical Difficulties in Dealing with Joint Ventures Violating Antitrust Law], Rheinische

Notar-Zeitschrift 2014, 349-365 (with Christoph Spiering).

Book:

FairEconomy Crises, Culture, Competition and the Role of Law, 19 MPI Studies on Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Springer, Heidelberg et al., 2013, 150 pages (with

Wolfgang Fikentscher and Rupprecht Podszun)

Reviews:

Adi Ayal, 45 International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law 734-

736 (2014).

Marco Saverio Spolidoro, Rivista delle Societ 2014, 940-941.

TALKS AND LECTURES:

January 2013

Zwischen Gemeinwohlutopie und illiberaler Dystopie Gedanken zum debiasing im Privatrecht, Lecture at the PhD Seminar, Humboldt University of Berlin


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July 2013

Bounded Rationality and Legal Concepts of Human Agency - Towards a Transparent System of Trade-Offs in Unfair Competition and Tort Law, Lecture at the PhD Seminar, Humboldt University of Berlin

November 2013

Debias Them!? Towards a Critical Theory of Reducing Biases and Uncertainty in Private Law, Lecture at the 3rd Yale Doctoral Scholarship Conference, Yale Law School, New Haven

February 2015

Bounded Rationality, Uncertainty, and the Information Model in Private Law - Overcoming the Knowledge Problem in Behavioral Law and Economics, Lecture at the Private Law Forum for Doctoral Researchers, European University Institute, Florence

COMMUNITY SERVICE AND COMMITMENT:

2002-2004

Representative of the native village of Gerbrunn in the Youth Council of City Partnerships in

Lower Franconia

2002-2006

Part of the organizing team of the Africa Festival in Wrzburg, responsible for translation and interpretation, event management and support of musicians

LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES:

German: mother tongue

English: fluent in oral and written expression

French: fluent in oral and written expression

Spanish: fluent in oral and written expression

Portuguese: medium knowledge

Latin: advanced knowledge