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Professor Dr. Meinhard Hilf
Bucerius Law School Emeritus
Jungiusstraße 620355 Hamburg
Phone +49-40-30706.158
Fax +49-40-30706.246
Email meinhard.hilf@law-school.de
Education
1960 – 1965 Legal studies at the Universities of Geneva, Munich and Hamburg (1st law degree)
1965 – 1968 Legal apprenticeship (Referendariat) in Baden-Württemberg (2nd law degree, bar exam)
Professional career
1965 – 1972 Research Assistant at Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign Public and Public International Law, Heidelberg
1972 Dr. iur., University of Heidelberg
1973 Clerk at the Federal Constitutional Court, Karlsruhe
1974 – 1976 Member of Legal Service of the Commission of the European Communities, Brussels
1977 – 1980 Research Fellow at Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign Public and Public International Law, Heidelberg
1981 Ph.D. (Habilitation) at the University of Heidelberg
1981 – 1982 Member of Legal Service of the Commission of the European Communities, Brussels
1982 – 1991 Professor for Public, European and Public International Law, University of Bielefeld
1991 – 2004 Professor for Public, European and Public International Law, Director of Department for European Law, University of Hamburg
2004 – 2008 Professor at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg
since 2008 Emeritus and Member of the Affiliates Faculty at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg
Current areas of research and teaching
Constitutional Issues of the European Union
WTO Law: Constitutional Issues, Implementation and Dispute Settlement under the DSU
Selected services and other professional activities
• Visiting Professor/Lecturer at College of Europe, Brugge; Europa Institute, Amsterdam; Institut universitaire internationale, Luxemburg; Centre d´études internationalles et européennes, Strasbourg; Law School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbour (1994/1995); Tonji-University Shanghai (1996); German-Chinese Institute of Economic Law, Nanjing (1997); Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing (1999, 2004); Lectures on China's Accession to the WTO in Western Provinces of China (2001, 2002, 2003); University Bordeaux IV (2003).
• Roster of Panelists for the Settlement of Disputes under GATT; Member of GATT-Panels Brazil/US (Rubber-Footwear, 1992); Norway/US (Salmon, 1994); Korea/US (DRAMS, 1998); Australia/New Zealand/US (Lamb, 2000).
• Member of various Societies and Associations in the field of Public Law, European and Public International Law; Member of the International Committee on Trade Law of the International Law Association. Member of the Council of the German Society of International Public Law.
• Co-Editor of Hamburger Studien zum Europäischen und Internationalen Recht (HEIR), Duncker & Humblot, Berlin
• Member of the Advisory Boards of the legal periodicals Europarecht, Cahiers de droit européen, Columbia Journal of European Law, Common Market Law Review and Journal of International Economic Law.
• Special Advisor to the Council of the European Union, Elaboration of the Charter of Fundamental Rights (2000). Honorary Member, Center of European Law Shandong University, China (2002).
• Chairman of Advisory Research Committee of the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg (2003 - 2009).
Courses taught at the Europa-Kolleg Hamburg
GATT/WTO-Law and EU External Economic Policy
EU External Relations Law
European Constitutional Law