After studies in philosophy and law Dan Wielsch graduated from the Frankfurt University lawschool in 1996. Afterwards he worked as a reserach fellow at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal Studies. His doctoral thesis, completed in 1999, was awarded with the Otto-Hahn Prize of the Max Planck Society. During his practical legal training he clerked inter alia at the German Federal Constitutional Court. Outside academia he worked as a lawyer for the lawfirm of Hogan & Hartson Raue LLP and as a legal advisor for the Federal Ministry of the Interior in Berlin. In 2003 he obtained the LL.M. degree from the University of California at Berkeley. Since 2004 he is writing his post-doctoral thesis in the field of information law at the University of Frankfurt.
Amongst others he is member of the German-American and the German-Israeli Lawyers’ Association and also of the German Council on Foreign Relations.
Dan Wielsch
Recent articles
If this were true ...
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Ninety Days
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Another Chapter in the Expansion of IPRs
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IP Enforcement Directive
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Competition Policy for Information Platform Technology
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Again: Search Engines
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Biased Search Engines and “Web Enlightenment”
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Browsing Spam Laws
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Civil Society goes transnational: bringing the law back in
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Cultural Theory and Digital Balance
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MPI on Collective Goods
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