CURRICULUM VITAE OF

Christoph Ulrich Schmid (German nationality) Dr. iur. habil. (Munich), Ph.D. (EUI Florence) Professor in European Private and Economic Law Director, Centre of European Law and Politics (ZERP), University of Bremen

PERSONAL DATA Foreign languages:

English, French, Italian, Spanish (active) Portuguese, Dutch (passive)

SCHOOL EDUCATION 1973

primary school in Loiching/Bavaria

1977

high school (“Gymnasium”) in Dingolfing/Bavaria

1984 - 1985

school exchanges in Glasgow and Paris

1986

maturity exam at the Gymnasium Dingolfing (average grade 1,0); scholarship by the Bavarian state for for entire university studies (Stipendium nach dem Bayerischen Begabtenförderungsgesetz)

UNIVERSITY STUDIES 1986 - 1988

studies of law and languages (French, Italian, and English) at the University of Passau/Bavaria

1986 - 1990

summer courses in French and Spanish language and culture at the universities of Dijon and Santiago de Compostela; scholarship of the Italian state for a one-month language course in Florence

1988

degree in Italian language and legal translation, University of Passau/Bavaria

1988/89

studies of law at the University of Geneva; scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst – DAAD)

1989

degree in French language and legal translation, University of Passau/Bavaria

1989 - 1991

studies of law at the University of Munich

1991

Erstes Juristisches Staatsexamen (first "state exam", 11,0 p.) in Munich

1991 - 1992

four months stage with "Bread for the World " (an NGO working in the field of aid to development) in Potosi/Bolivia, consisting in legal counselling for poor Indian inhabitants; at the same time teaching German at the University of Potosi

PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC CAREER September 1992

Ph.D. studies at the University of Munich (subject: "The interplay of United Nations Sales Law and domestic law: gap-filling and the concurrence of norms"); doctorate scholarship by the Bavarian State (Gesetz zur Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses)

February - July 1992

research mission at the University of Berkeley (5 months), supervision by Professors Richard D. Buxbaum und Stefan A. Riesenfeld; scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service

1992 - 1993

teaching at the chamber of commerce, Leipzig/Saxony (6 weeks): Introduction to Private and Economic Law",

1992 - 1995

Rechtsreferendariat (legal training) in Landshut and Munich

March 1994

submission of Ph.D. thesis

November 1994 – January 1995

internship at the German embassy, legal section, in Brussels

1995

collaboration at the chair of Prof. Dr. Coester-Waltjen, University of Munich (preparing reports on private international and foreign law cases at the request of courts)

June 1995

Zweites Juristisches Staatsexamen (second "state exam", 9, 52 p.)

July 1995

defense of Ph.D. thesis, graded "summa cum laude" (Supervisor Prof. Dr. Andreas Heldrich, director of the Institute of Comparative Law and President of the University of Munich)

October 1995 - 1997

postdoctoral studies in European, comparative and competition law at the European University Institute (EUI), Florence; Ph.D. research project: "The Banana saga: Multi-level Constitutionalism and Constitutional Conflicts between International, European and National Trade and Constitutional Law"; supervision by Prof. Dr. Christian Joerges and Prof. Dr. Claus-Dieter Ehlermann; grants by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD – 1995-1996) and the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht (1996-1997)

May 1997

teaching a one-week course on Federalism in Germany and Europe at the University of Sarajevo/Bosnia (in the framework of an exchange programme with the EUI)

1997 - 1999

Marie Curie Fellow (TMR-Programme of the European Commission) at the EUI Florence; habilitaton research project: Europeanization of Private Law – Theoretical, Doctrinal and Legal Policy Aspects; supervision by Prof.

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Dr. Christian Joerges and Prof. Dr. Dagmar Coester-Waltjen LLM, Professor at the University of Munich; submission of the thesis planned in Autumn 2002; 1999-2002

Bavarian Award for Postdoctoral Research ("Bayerischer Habilitationsförderpreis"); continuation of the research at the EUI as a visting fellow of the Bavarian Government

2001/2002

part-time lecturer of the German Foundation for International Legal Co-operation; courses on European Private Law at the Universities of Rijeka/Croatia and Novi Sad/Serbia

March 2002 – April 2005

scientific project co-ordinator at the European Private Law Forum at the EUI Florence

July 2004

completion of the Habilitation procedure at the University of Munich and nomination as Privatdozent at the University of Munich – venia legendi in national, European and international private, commercial and economic law, comparative law and legal theory

Since Summer 2005

professor of European private, economic and constitutional economic law; director of the Centre of European Law and Politics (ZERP) at the University of Bremen; design and implement of research projects for the European Commission and the OECD

Since 2007

guest professorships at the Universities of Tarragona, La Laguna, Sassari and Trento

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SELECTED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS, RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS, LEGAL TRANSLATIONS AND LECTURES Authored Books 1. Das Zusammenspiel von Einheitlichem UN-Kaufrecht und nationalem Recht: Lückenfüllung und Normenkonkurrenz [The Interface of United Nations Sales Law and National Law], 295 p., Berlin: Duncker & Humblot (1996), Schriften zum Internationalen Recht, vol. 77 (Ph.D. Thesis, University of Munich 1995); - reviewed by: R. Meyer-Pritzl, Neue Juristische Wochenschrift 1998, 667f. 2. Multi-Level Constitutionalism and Constitutional Conflicts. Interconnecting the National, European and International Economic Constitutions in the Banana Dispute, 311 p., European University Institute Florence, December 2001 (EUI Ph.D.-Thesis, electronically published at: www.zerp.eu\ChristophSchmid 3. Die Instrumentalisierung des Privatrechts in der Europäischen Union [The Instrumentalization of Private Law in the EU], Habilitation Thesis (University of Munich), updated book version published with Nomos publisher, 2010 (899 p.)  Review articles in: Ch. Joerges/ T. Pinkel (Hrsg.), Europäisches Verfassungsdenken ohne Privatrecht – Europäisches Privatrecht ohne Demokratie, ZERP-Workshop on 9.7.2010, ZERP-Diskussionspapier 1/2011, with reviews by Michelle Everson, Marc Amstutz, Erich Schanze, Jules Stuyck, Brigitta Lurger, Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi, Jan Smits und Florian Rödl; English version: Ch. Joerges/ T. Ralli (eds.), European Constitutionalism without Private Law – Private Law without Democracy, Arena Report No. 3/2011, Arena, Oslo; for a review, see also: F. Bydlinski, Die Maxime beidseitiger Rechtfertigung im Privatrecht in: Apathy et. al. (Hg.), Festschrift für Helmut Koziol, 2010, 1355. Edited Books and Documents 4. Evolutionary Perspectives and Projects on Harmonisation of Private Law in the EU, with contributions by Ole Lando, Kristina Preinerstorfer, Mauro Bussani, Pierre Larouche und Christoph Schmid; 124 p.; co-edited with Sonja Feiden on behalf of the EUI Working Group on Private Law; EUI Working Paper Law no. 7/98. 5. Tenancy Law and Procedure in the EU, Comparative Research Project carried out at the EUI Florence, composed of 15 national reports, 3 background reports and a general report, ca. 850 pages, available at: http://www.iue.it/LAW/ResearchTeaching/EuropeanPrivateLaw/. 6. Real Property Law and Procedure in the EU, Comparative Research Project carried out at the EUI Florence, composed of 13 national reports, 2 background reports and a general report, ca. 900 pages, available at: http://www.iue.it/LAW/ReserachTeaching/EuropeanPrivateLaw/. 7. Conveyancing Services Market, COMP/2006/D3/003, Study for DG Competition, European Commission (together with Steffen Sebastian and Gabe Lee, Regensburg, and Marcel Fink and Iain Paterson, Vienna), 274 p., 2007, 4

forthcoming at: http://ec.europa.eu/comm/competition/sectors/professional_services/conferences/2 0061230/index.htm 8. Conveyancing Services Market, COMP/2006/D3/003, Country Reports, separate annex to Study for DG Competition, European Commission, 354 p., 2007, forthcoming at: http://ec.europa.eu/comm/competition/sectors/professional_services/conferences/2 0061230/index.htm 9. Europäische Gesellschaftsverfassung. Zur Konstitutionalisierung sozialer Demokratie in Europa, 408 S., ZERP-Schriftenreihe Bd. 57, Nomos 2009, edited with Andreas Fischer-Lescano and Florian Rödl. 10. Il Ruolo Sociale del Diritto Privato in Europa – Die gesellschaftliche Rolle des Privatrechts in Europa, contributions to joint doctoral workshops of the Universities of Bremen and Sassari (edited with Michele Comenale Pinto), forthcoming 2012.

Commentary 11. Product Liability, Art. 5 Rome II – Regulation (with T. Pinkel), in: G.-P. Calliess (ed.), Rome Regulations, Commentary on the European Rules of the Conflict of Laws, Wolters Kluwer (2011), p. 431-450.

Contributions to Books and Major Professional Journals 12. Das Verhältnis von Einheitlichem UN-Kaufrecht und nationalem Recht am Beispiel des Ersatzes von Mangelfolgeschäden, Recht der Internationalen Wirtschaft 1996, p. 904-913; 13. Das Unbedenklichkeitsverfahren nach § 16 III UmwG n.F. und die Reversibilität von ins Handelsregister eingetragenen fehlerhaften Verschmelzungsbeschlüssen Neue Waffen im Kampf gegen die Räuber, Zeitschrift für Unternehmens- und Gesellschaftsrecht 1997, p. 493-521; 14. Die gemeinschaftsrechtliche Überlagerung der Tatbestände des Mißbrauchs der Vertretungsmacht und des Insichgeschäfts, Die Aktiengesellschaft, 1998, p. 127-133; 15. Der Status des GATT/WTO-Systems im Gemeinschaftsrecht, Neue Juristische Wochenschrift 1998, p. 190-199; 16. Einstweiliger Rechtsschutz von Kapitalgesellschaften gegen die Blockade von Strukturentscheidungen durch Anfechtungsklagen, Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht (ZIP) 1998, p. 1057-1068; 17. Konsolidierung und Vereinfachung des europäischen Primärrechts wissenschaftliche Modelle, aktueller Stand und Perspektiven, in A. v. Bogdandy and C.-D. Ehlermann (Hrsg.), Konsolidierung und Kohärenz des Primärrechts nach Amsterdam (1998), Europarecht, Beiheift 2, p. 17-38;

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18. Vertical and Diagonal Conflicts in the Europeanisation Process in C. Joerges and O. Gerstenberg (eds.), Private Governance, democratic constitutionalism and supranationalism (European Commission COST A 7 EUR 18340, 1998), p. 185-191; 19. From Pont d Avignon to Ponte Vecchio. The Resolution of Constitutional Conflicts between the European Union and the Member States through Principles of Public International Law, Yearbook of European Law 18 (1998), p. 415-476; 20. The Neglected Conciliation Approach to the Final Arbiter Conflict, Common Market Law Review 36 (1999), p. 519-525; 21. Zur Einführung: Europäische Integration und Privatrecht, JURA 1999, p. 167-177; 22. The Emergence of a Transnational Legal Science in Europe, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 19 (1999), p. 673-689; abridged conference version also in V. Heiskanen and K. Kulovesi (eds.), Function and Future of European Law, Helsinki University Press (1999), p. 75-91; 

German version: Anfänge einer transnationalen Privatrechtswissenschaft in Europa, Zeitschrift für Rechtsvergleichung 1999, p. 213-222;

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Completely revised and updated French version (together with Prof. Anthony Chamboredon, Paris): Pour la Création d‘un Institut Européen du Droit, Revue Internationale du Droit Comparé, 2001/3, p. 685-708;

23. Desintegration und Neuordnungsperspektiven im europäischen Privatrecht, in T. Ackermann et al. (Hrsg.), Tradition und Fortschritt im Recht, Jahrbuch Junger Zivilrechtswissenschaftler 10 (1999), p. 33-63; 24. Die Vermittlung von Verfassungskonflikten im Europäischen Staatenverbund, in R. Scholz (Hrsg.), Europa als Union des Rechts, Veröffentlichungen der Hanns Martin Schleyer-Stiftung, Bd. 54, 1999, p. 204-212; 25. Diagonal Competence Conflicts between European Competition Law and National Law. The example of book price fixing, European Review of Private Law, 8 (2000), p. 155-172; 26. All bark, and no bite - A Review Essay on the German Federal Constitutional Court‘s Banana Decision, European Law Journal 7 (2001), p. 95-113; 

German Version: Ein enttäuschender Rückzug – Zum Bananenbeschluss des BVerfG, Neue Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsrecht 2001, p. 249-258;

27. Legitimacy Conditions of a European Civil Code, Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 8 (2001), p. 277-298. 

German Version: Legitimitätsbedingungen eines Zivilgesetzbuchs, Juristenzeitung 2001, S. 674-683;

Europäischen

28. Basic Patterns of Legislative and Adjudicative Integration of Private Law in Europe, Columbia Journal of European Law 8 (2002), 415-486. 29. European Influences on Real Property Law, Contribution to the EULIS Project, Lund 2003, available at: http://www.eulis.org/. 30. Coordination Problems of European and National Private Law, EUI Paper Law, 2004, available at: http://www.iue.it/LAW/ResearchTeaching/EuropeanPrivate Law/.

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31. Tenancy Law and Procedure, General Report, EUI 2004, 47 p., available at: http://www.iue.it/LAW/ResearchTeaching/EuropeanPrivateLaw/. 32. Diverse Options under EU Law for the Implementation of a Eurohypothec, in Agnieszka Drewicz-Tulodziecka (ed.), Basic Guidelines for a Eurohypothec, 2005, 61-68. 33. Le projet d’un code civil européen et la Constitution européenne, Les Cahiers de Droit (Québec) 46 (2005), 113-128. 34. Real Property Law and Procedure, General Report (together with Christian Hertel, Germany Notary Institute), EUI, 2005, 103 pp., available at: http://www.iue.it/LAW/ResearchTeaching/EuropeanPrivateLaw/. 35. The Instrumentalist Conception of the Acquis Communautaire in Consumer Law and its Implications on a European Contract Law Code, European Review of Contract Law 1 (2005), 211-227; revised reprint in: Stephan Grundmann/ Martin Schauer (Hrsg.), The Architecture of European Codes and Contract Law, Kluwer Law International (2006), 255-267. 36. Redefining the Traditional Pillars of German Legal Studies and Setting the Stage for Contemporary Interdisciplinary Research (together with Stephan Leibfried, Christoph Möllers und Peer Zumbansen), German Law Journal 7 (2006), 661-679. 37. Private suretyships as a socio-legal crucible of modern civil law, in: A. Colombi Ciacchi (Hrsg.), Protection of Non-Professional Sureties in Europe: Formal and Substantive Disparity, Nomos, Baden-Baden (2007), 21-52. 38. Regulierung der juristischen Dienstleistungen beim Grundstückskauf – Verbraucherschutz oder EG-rechtswidrige Wettbewerbsbeschränkung? (together with Tobias Pinkel) Hanse Law Review, vol. 3 no. 1 (2007), 1. 39. Il difficile coordinamento tra norme generali e norme speciali nel sistema pluriordinamentale europeo, in: E. Navaretta (ed.), Il rapporto tra norme generali e norme di settore, Giuffrè, Milano (2008), 505-516. 40. Judicial Governance in the EU, in: Ch. Joerges/ F. Roedl (eds.), Law and Democracy in Europe's Postnational Polity, Routledge (2008), 85-105. 41. Erfahrungen mit der unordentlichen Gerichtsbarkeit, in K. Hilbig et al., Schülerfestschrift für Dagmar Coester-Waltjen (2009), 97-108. 42. The Spanish Mortgage Reform from a Foreign Perspective – A Step Forward in Flexibility and Liberalisation? (mit T. Pinkel) in: S. Nassare-Aznar et al., La Reforma del Mercado Hipotecario (2009), 553-579. 43. Legal Services in Conveyancing, in: A. Bakardieva-Engelbrekt (Hrsg.), New Directions in Comparative Law, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (2009), 185-200. 44. Die Zulässigkeit nationaler Einschränkungen der Grundfreiheiten für juristische Dienstleistungen im Grundstücksverkehr vor dem Hintergrund des Verfahrens Kommission ./. Deutschland (EuGH C-54/08), Hanse Law Review, Vol. 5 No. 2 (2009), 129 (with T. Pinkel). 45. Vom effet utile zum effet néoliberal, Eine Kritik des neuen judiziellen Expansionismus des Europäischen Gerichtshofs, in: A. Fischer-Lescano/ F. Rödl/ Ch. Schmid (Hrsg.), Europäische Gesellschaftsverfassung, Nomos (2009), 33-54.

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English version: From effet utile to effet néoliberal, in: R. Nickel (ed.), Conflict of Laws and Laws of Conflict in Europe and Beyond - Patterns of Supranational and Transnational Juridification, Intersentia (2010), 295314.

46. A European Civil Code as a Building Block for a European Social Model? Review Essay, European Law Review 2010, 103-111. 47. The Three Lives of European Private Law, in: L. Antoniolli/ F. Fiorentini, A Factual Assessment of the Draft Common Framework of Reference, Sellier European Publishers (2010), 299-312. 48. Die Instrumentalisierungsthese aus der Vogelperspektive in: Ch. Joerges/ T. Pinkel (Hrsg.), Europäisches Verfassungsdenken ohne Privatrecht – Europäisches Privatrecht ohne Demokratie, ZERP-Diskussionspapier 1/2011, 25-42. 

English version: The Thesis of the Instrumentalization of Private Law by the EU in a Nutshell, in: Ch. Joerges/ T. Ralli (eds.), European Constitutionalism without Private Law – Private Law without Democracy, Arena Oslo, Report No. 3/2011, 17-36; revised version forthcoming in: F. Werro/ M. Bussani (eds.), Handbook of European Private Law (2012).

49. Towards Proceduralization of Private Law in the European Multi-Level System (with Ch. Joerges), in: A. Hartkamp/ M. Hesselink/ E. Hondius/ Ch. Mak/ E. du Perron (eds.), Towards a European Civil Code, 4th ed., Wolters Kluwer (2011), 277-310. 50. Grundfreiheitskonforme Reformierung der nationalen Notariatsverfassung (with T. Pinkel), Neue Juristische Wochenschrift 2011, 2928-2931. 51. The German and Dutch Notarial Systems Compared, forthcoming in: Ch. Godt (ed.), Hanse Law School in Perspective (2012). 52. Satira e Diritto Privato, forthcoming in: Rivista Giuridica Sarda (2012). 53. The Protection of Immovables, German National Report (with T. Pinkel), forthcoming in: S. Martin Santisteban/ P. Sparkes (eds.), The Protection of Immovables in Europe, volume of the series “The Common Core of European Private Law”, Cambridge University Press (2012). Major Research Projects and Collaborations 54. Karl Firsching und Hans-Lothar Graf, Nachlaßrecht, 7. Aufl., Handbuch der Rechtspraxis, Bd. 6, München: Beck (1993); drafts of the chapters on substantive and procedural law of successions. 55. Robert Schuman Center, EUI Florence, A Unified and Simplified Model of the European Communities Treaties and the Treaty on European Union in Just one Treaty, Report for the European Parliament (Reporter: Armin v. Bogdandy; Coordinator: Claus-Dieter Ehlermann), September 1996; German version. 56. Parlement Européen, Direction Générale des Etudes, Serie politique POLI 105 FR, Quelle Charte constitutionnelle pour l‘Union européenne?, étude élaborée par le Centre Robert Schuman de l‘ IUE, May 1999; Member of the Working Group.

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57. Robert Schuman Center, EUI Florence, A Basic Treaty for the European Union, Study on the Reorganization of the Treaties, elaborated for the European Commission, May 2000; German Version (together with Claus K. Meyer). 58. European Private Law Forum, EUI Florence, Tenancy Law and Procedure in the European Union, comparative research project on tenancy regulation in the EU, 2003-4; elaboration of the research proposal and scientific coordination. 59. European Private Law Forum, EUI Florence, und Deutsches Notarinstitut, Würzburg, Real Property Law and Procedure in the European Union, comparative research project on real property and mortgage law in the EU, 20034; elaboration of the research proposal and scientific coordination. 60. ZERP, Conveyancing Services Regulation, Studie für die EU-Kommission, GD Wettbewerb, COMP/2006/D3/003, 2007-9, elaboration of the tender and scientific coordination. 61. ZERP, Tenancy Law and Housing Policy in the EU, cooperative project under FP 7, starting on 1/4/2012; elaboration of the research proposal and scientific coordination. Legal Translations 62. Massimo La Torre, La tolleranza come principio non relativo dell‘ esercizio di un diritto. Un approssimazione "discorsiva", Ragion pratica 1997/9, p. 181-196, translation from Italian to German, published as: „Toleranz als nicht-relatives Rechtsausübungsprinzip“ in Archiv- für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie; 63. Fritz W. Scharpf, Governing in Europe, monograph, 1998; translation from English to German, published as: Regieren in Europa. Effektiv und demokratisch?, Campus Verlag: Frankfurt 1999, 201 p. Other Scientific Functions 

Member of the European Society of Contract Law (SECOLA)

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Member of the Trento Common Core Project

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Member of the Study Group on Social Justice in European Private Law

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Member of the German Society of International Law

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Member of the European Law Institute (since its foundation on 1.7.2011)

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Member of the Interdisciplinary Research Training Network (Sonderforschungsbereich) “Statehood in Change” at Bremen University

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Member of the Faculty of the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Bremen (funded by the Volkswagen foundation)

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Member of the Doctoral School in Law at the University of Modena (Italy)

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Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center for International and European Private Law at the University of Luzern, Switzerland (Director: Prof. Dr. Andreas Furrer) Regular „peer reviewer“ for the European Law Journal, Florence

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Jury Member in doctoral commissions at the University of Tarragona Regular guest professor and external member of the Graduate School in Economic Law at the University of Sassari. Expert acting for the Portuguese Government in the Reform of Notarial Law 2008/9 („casa pronta“-Program) Coordinator of an OECD expert group dealing with the evaluation of property and register law systems of EU candidate and associate states (since 2009)

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