Prof. Dr. jur. Matthias Leistner, LL.M. (Cambridge)
Office address:
Marstallstr. 8
80539 Munich
+49 89 24246-5415
Postal address:
Marstallplatz 1
80539 Munich
Professional Career
- Currently:
- Full professor (GRUR Chair) for Civil Law, Intellectual Property Law with Information and IT-Law, Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU), Munich.
- 2023
- Call for a position of a Director of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Munich and Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society – stayed at LMU Munich.
- Mar-May ‘23
Mar-Apr ’24 - Engelberg Fellow at Engelberg Centre, NYU Law, New York City.
- 2020
- International Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School, University of Columbia, New York City, in the Summer Term.
- 2016
- Call for a Full professorship (GRUR Chair) for Private Law, Intellectual Property Law with Information and IT-Law, Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU), Munich – accepted.
- 2016
- Guest lecturer at ARCIALA, Singapore Management University (SMU) Law School.
- 2010
- Call for a Full Professorship (Chair) for Civil Law, Economic and Technology Law to the University of Bayreuth – stayed at the University of Bonn.
- 2010
- Call for a Full Professorship (Chair) for Civil, European and International Private and Economic law to the Friedrich Alexander University Nuernberg – denied – stayed at the University of Bonn.
- 2010&2017
- Guest professor at the Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
- 2009-2011
- Honorary professor at the University of Xiamen, China.
- July 2007 –
Sep. 2016 - Full professor (Chair) for Civil Law, Intellectual Property Law and Competition Law, Director of the Institute for Commercial and Economic Law, Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelm University Bonn.
- 2007
- Call for a Full Professorship (Chair) for Civil Law, Intellectual Property Law and Competition Law, Director of the Institute for Commercial and Economic Law, Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelm University Bonn – accepted.
Call for a Full Professorship (Chair) for Civil law and Information/IT-law at the Leibniz-University Hannover – stayed at the University of Bonn.
Call for a Full Professorship (Chair) for Civil law, Intellectual Property Law and Competition law to the University of Mannheim – stayed at the University of Bonn. - Oct. 2006 –
Feb. 2007 - Associated Professor, Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelm University Bonn.
- April 2006 –
July 2006 - Associated Professor, University of Augsburg.
- Oct. 2003 –
Sep. 2006 - Fellowship of the Bavarian State for the Post-doc thesis (Bayerischer Habilitationsfoerderpreis).
- Since 2003
- Member of the Faculty of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC).
- May 2002 –
Sept. 2003 - Full-time research position as Head of the commonwealth department of the Max-Planck-Institute for foreign and international patent-, copyright- and competition law, Munich.
- Apr. 2002
- Public Notary Assessorship in Landshut for one month.
- 2001-Mar. 2002
- Full-time research position as Head of the commonwealth department of the Max-Planck-Institute for foreign and international patent-, copyright- and competition law, Munich.
- 1999-2001
- Part-time research assistant at Max-Planck-Institute for foreign and international patent-, copyright and competition law, Munich.
- 1997-1999
- Research fellow at Max-Planck-Institute for foreign and international patent-, copyright and competition law, Munich.
Education
- 2006
- Habilitation at Law Faculty of Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, acquired teaching authorization (venia legendi) for Civil Law, German and European Economic Law, Industrial and Intellectual Property Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law.
- 2003-2006
- Post-doc thesis (Habilitation) on Richtiger Vertrag und lauterer Wettbewerb (Fair contracts and fair competition), Law Faculty of Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU), Munich, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Josef Drexl.
Fellowship of the Bavarian State.
(Bayerischer Habilitationsfoerderpreis). - 2003-2004
- LL.M.-studies, Trinity Hall College, University of Cambridge (First Class LL.M.).
- 2001
- Second State Examination in Munich. Prize of the Bavarian State Minister of Justice for the Examination Result.
- 1999-2001
- Legal Clerkship at the Munich court of appeals (Rechtsreferendariat).
- 1997-1999
- Ph.D.-studies at the Law Faculty of Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU), Munich. Dissertation on Der Rechtsschutz des Datenbankherstellers im deutschen und europäischen Recht (Legal protection of database makers in German and European law), summa cum laude, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Gerhard Schricker.
- 1997
- First State Examination in Berlin.
- 1992-1997
- Studies of Law at the Freie Universitaet Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin, Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Functions, Memberships, Activities
- Since 2024
- Representative of the Law Faculty in LMU’s AI hub (AI HUB@LMU).
- Since 2023
- Member of the Editorial Board of GRUR-Patent (one of GRUR’s sister journals specializing in patent law).
- Since 2020
- Editor of the German GRUR Journal (leading journal in the area of intellectual and industrial property law).
- Since 2020
- Member of the General Board and the Executive Committee (since 2024) as well as various Expert Committees of GRUR Association.
- Since 2011
- German ALAI group (Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale) (from 2011-17 Member of the German ALAI Board).
- 2008-2016
- Member of the Centre for European Economic Law of Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelm University Bonn.
Director of the degree course in Law & Economics.
Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Bonn Law Journal. - 2008-2014
- Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the HumTEC-project (Law and Technology program) within the German „Excellency Initiative“ at the RWTH Aachen.
- Since 2007
- Expert for the German Universities‘ Association (DHV) in matters of copyright and publishing law.
- Since 2007
- Expert in different choice of law, contracts, IP and patent law cases before all relevant German courts (including the German Federal Court of Justice and the German Federal Constitutional Court) as well as international and foreign courts (including the CJEU, the High Court for England and Wales, different U.S. courts as well as the ITC, arbitration panels in Paris and Hong-Kong). Expert for German and European institutions, such as the European Parliament, the State of Bavaria and other.
Awards And Prizes
- 2006-2011
- Member of the Young Academy of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Leopoldina Academy.
- 2004-2006
- Fellowship of the Bavarian State (for the post-doc thesis).
- 2003
- Research Scholarship Trinity Hall College, University of Cambridge;
Honorary Cambridge European Trust Scholar;
Bateman Scholar of Trinity Hall College;
Cambridge European Society Scholar. - 2003/2004
- Fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
- 2000
- Dieter Rampacher Prize of the German Max Planck Society (for the dissertation).