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Dr
Christophe Germann Attorney at law admitted to the
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Professionals Dr. Christophe Germann Dr. Christophe Germann is an attorney at law admitted to the bar of Geneva and is authorized to practice both in Switzerland and in the European Union (www.germann-avocats.com). He set up his own law firm in March 2000 after having worked as an associate of the international law firm of Baker & McKenzie (Geneva office) for four years (www.bakernet.com). In 1995, he earned his bar admission ("Fähigkeitszeugnis für den Rechtsanwaltsberuf") in Zurich. Christophe Germann lectures on international intellectual property laws and policies at the Institute for European and International Economic Public Law (IEW) of the University of Berne Law School, Switzerland, since 2001 (www.iew.unibe.ch). Christophe Germann was head of the legal program of "Avanti" from 2003 to 2004 (professional training programme on audiovisual laws and policies, for lawyers from Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan; this programme was funded by the Swiss Development and Cooperation Agency, www.deza.ch). From 2006 to 2007, he has been working on a part-time basis as deputy leader of the research project on international trade regulations which addresses special and differential treatment, variable geometry and regionalism in the framework of the Swiss National Science Foundation’s program "National Centres of Competence in Research" (NCCR) at the World Trade Institute (WTI) in Berne (www.nccr-trade.org). In 1996, Christophe Germann participated in a professional training programme in the area of international copyright with the legal department of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in Los Angeles (www.mpaa.org). Subsequently, he attended an associate training programme with the firm of Baker & McKenzie in Palo Alto (Silicon Valley) and San Francisco (www.bakernet.com) focusing on software and contract law. Education Christophe Germann holds a PhD from the University of Berne Law School (www.unibe.ch) where his doctoral thesis focused on cultural diversity and international trade regulations from the perspective of intellectual property, competition, trade and culture laws and policies. In 2000, Christophe Germann obtained a Master in European Studies ("Diplôme d'Etudes Appronfondies" DEA) at the European Institute of the University of Geneva (www.unige.ch/ieug). He studied at the University of Geneva Law School (www.unige.ch), where he obtained the diploma "Licentiatus iuris" in 1992. Areas of Practice Intellectual property and contract law (copyright and performers’ rights, trademarks and related litigation, license agreements); information technology (software, Internet, new media, data protection); corporate law, mergers and acquisitions; competition law, European law and international trade law. Languages Native speaker of French and German, fluent in English (working languages), basic knowledge of Italian and Portuguese. Research Interests Trade related cultural diversity law and policies, international intellectual property law, competition law and international trade regulations. Fellowships, research and teaching From 2009 to 2010, Christophe Germann is working as a visiting research fellow on cultural genocide in international law at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law of the University of Cambridge (www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/) and at the Genocide Studies Program at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies of Yale University (www.yale.edu/gsp/). This research in the framework of the Marie Curie and Swiss National Science Foundation grant programmes shall result in a habilitation thesis. Previously, he was post doctoral researcher at the Research Institute for Comparative Law of the University of Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne / Centre National de Recherche Scientifique CNRS (http://www.univ-paris1.fr/centres-de-recherche/umrdc/; grant awarded by the scientific council of the City of Paris) and at the European University Institute of Florence/Fiesole (www.eui.eu; "Max Weber" fellowship granted by the European Commission). From 2000 to 2005 he worked as a lecturer on international intellectual property rights and as a research fellow with professor Thomas Cottier at the Institute of European and International Economic Law (IEW) of the University of Berne Law School (www.iew.unibe.ch). |
