The Grand Forums of the Most Honorable Jurists A Current European Proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market Prof. Dr. iur. Matthias Leistner [Oct. 30]

Subject: A Current European Proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market

Speaker: Matthias Leistner, Professor of LMU Munich

Chair: Liu Kongzhong, Professor of Renmin Law School

Time: October 30, 2018, 15:00—17:00

Venue: Room 602, Mingde Law Builing

Introduction:

Matthias Leistner (1974) is Professor of Private Law and Intellectual Property Law, with Information and IT-Law (German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR) Chair) at LMU Munich. He studied law in Berlin, Brussels, Munich and Cambridge. Ph.D.-studies at the Max-Planck-Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law Munich; Dr. iur. (s.c.l.), LMU Munich 1999. Master of Law, Trinity Hall College, University of Cambridge 2004. Habilitation (Post-doc thesis), LMU Munich 2006.

    Matthias Leistner was Head of the Commonwealth Unit at the Max-Planck-Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Munich. From 2007-2016 he was Professor of Civil Law, Intellectual Property Law and Competition Law and Director of the Institute for Commercial and Economic Law at the University of Bonn. Apart from his Chair at LMU Munich, at present, he is a Member of the Faculty of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC), and a guest professor for European Intellectual Property Law at the University of Xiamen, China, and at the Tongji University, Shanghai.

    His specialties are intellectual property law (in particular copyright and patents), unfair competition law and internet law. He has published seven books and numerous articles in these fields and has been consulted on IP matters by various government departments and non-governmental organisations as well as international institutions. He was co-editor of the bi-lingual Zeitschrift für Geistiges Eigentum/Intellectual Property Journal (ZGE/IPJ), and is co-editor of a commentary on German unfair competition law (Grosskommentar UWG, Berlin 2013), and the standard commentary on German copyright law (Schricker/Loewenheim/Leistner/Ohly, Urheberrecht, 5th edition 2017).

(Editor: ZHANG Wenke)