PROF. TIM W. DORNIS PH. D. (TUEBINGEN), JSM (STANFORD) Email: tim.dornis@gmail.com EDUCATION Stanford Law School, Palo Alto/USA J.S.M. (SPILS Fellow) Scholarship award: German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) Eberhard-Karls-University, Tuebingen/Germany Ph.D. (= Dr. iur.), highest distinction (summa cum laude) Prizes awarded: Reinhold-und-Maria-Teufel Award; Deutsche Bank AG/db real estate & Society for Real Estate Scholarship, Real Estate Scholarship Award Columbia University School of Law, New York/USA LL.M., highest distinction (James Kent Scholar) Scholarship award: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and Alfred-Gleiss-Foundation Circuit Court of Stuttgart/Germany Second State Exam (bar equivalent), highest distinction, top 1% state-wide Eberhard-Karls-University, Tuebingen/Germany First State Exam (J.D. equivalent), highest distinction, top 1% state-wide 1999 WORK EXPERIENCE Leuphana University Lüneburg/Germany Professor of Law: Chair of Private Law, International Private and Economic Law, and Comparative Law District Court of Stuttgart/Germany Judge Special competence: IP, banking, and insurance law Gleiss Lutz Lawyers, Stuttgart Attorney-at-law (IP law and litigation) University of Augsburg/Germany Assistant professor of law (contract law & civil procedure) - 2006-2004- 2006-2004 1
Clayton Utz Lawyers, Sydney/Australia Legal intern (international product liability & insurance law) District Court of Tuebingen/Germany Law clerk ( Referendar ) 1999- OTHER ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES University of Augsburg/Germany Adjunct professor (private international law) T-Online International AG, Darmstadt/Germany Corporate counsel, IP & unfair competition law Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York/USA New York Bar Exam, admitted since May 2004 Alpmann & Schmidt, Repetitorium, Tuebingen/Germany Bar exam preparation courses ( Barbri equivalent) Instructor/lecturer Eberhard-Karls-University, Tuebingen/Germany Research/teaching assistant and lecturer in private law, European private law, civil procedure - 1997-2000 2
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (IN ENGLISH & GERMAN) Books Kaufpreiszahlung auf Notaranderkonto Erfüllung, Pfändung, Insolvenz (Payment on a Trust Account Performance, Seizure, Insolvency), Ph.D. thesis, 209 pages, published by Verlag Dr. Otto Schmidt, Cologne/Germany Current Project (Habilitation thesis): Transnational Goodwill, Transnational Policy International Trademark Law in Historical, Economic, and Doctrinal Perspective Treatises Honsell (ed.), Kommentar zum UN-Kaufrecht (Treatise on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG)), 2 nd edition, Artt. 14-24 Erman, Kommentar zum Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch (Treatise on the German Civil Code), 13th edition, 677-687 (negotiorum gestio) Articles (in English) Contribution and Indemnification among Joint Tortfeasors in Multi-State Conflict Cases A Study of Doctrine and the Current Law in the US and under the Rome II Regulation, Journal of Private International Law (JPrivIntL), 237-277 When in Rome, do as the Romans do? A Defense of the Lex Domicilii Communis in the Rome-II-Regulation, The European Legal Forum (EuLF), 152-159. Articles (in German) Current project: Das Dilemma der Erbensucher Versuch der ökonomisch-analytischen Befreiung aus einer dogmatischen Sackgasse (The heir searcher s dilemma An economic analysis of doctrinal cul-de-sacs) 3
Current project: Die auftragslose Geschäftsführung Rechtsinstitut zwischen privater Selbstbestimmung und Wohlfahrtsmaximierung (The law of rescue and salvage (negotiorum gestio) in historical and economic analysis The Good Samaritan in German private law) Die bestmögliche Rückläuferverwertung der Anfang vom Ende des Fahrzeugleasing, ZGS 2010, 1009-115 (Contractual risk allocation a particular view on leasing contracts under a law & economics perspective) Der Anschein eines besonders günstigen Angebots im Sinne des 16 Abs. 1 UWG, GRUR, 742-749 (Unfair Advertising under 16 German Unfair Competition Act) Phishing im Marken(straf)recht, C&R, 642-646 (with Simon Markus Beck) ( Phishing as Trademark Infringement) Der Schenkkreis in der Strafbarkeitslücke? Zum Tatbestandsmerkmal des geschäftlichen Verkehrs in 16 Abs. 2 UWG, WRP, 1303-1307 (The Requirement of Acting in Commerce for Unfair Competition Crimes) Die Unterwerfung: Rechtsnatur und Rechtsnachfolge, GRUR 2006, 195-201 (with Achim Förster) (Cease-and-Desist-Declaration: Legal Doctrine and Succession) Umfassender und andauernder Rechtsfrieden in Versicherungssachen von Holocaust-Opfern nach der Entscheidung des U.S. Supreme Court vom 23.06.?, VersR, 1235-1238 (Complete and Enduring Legal Certainty in Holocaust- Insurance-Claim Matters after the Supreme Court Decision of June 23,?) U.S. Supreme Court entscheidet über Mickey Mouse Protection Act, ZUM, 517-521 (U.S. Supreme Court decides on Mickey Mouse Protection Act ) Europäische Versicherer im Visier amerikanischer Bundesgerichte, VersR, 570-574 (European Insurance Companies and Holocaust Liability) 2010 2006 4
Annotations/Commentaries/Reviews Review of Jürgen Basedow, Toshiyuki Kono & Axel Metzger (eds.), Intellectual Property in the Global Arena (Max-Planck- Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, Mohr Siebeck 2010), in: The Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law (RabelsZ) (forthcoming) Annotation: OLG Stuttgart, Beschluss vom 12.02. 2 Ws 328/07, Urheberrecht und Internet: Öffentliche Zugänglichmachung von Audiodateien bei Music-on-Demand-Diensten, C&R, 319-322 (Copyright and the Internet: The Right of Making Available and Music-on-Demand-Services) Annotation: BGH, Urt. v. 11.11.2004, I ZR 182/02 ( Testamentsvollstreckung durch Steuerberater ), EWiR, 405-406 (Annotation to the Federal Court of Justice Decision I ZR 182/02) Conference Papers (in English) Extra-Territoriality and Trans-National Goodwill An Empirical Study of United States Case Law from 1952 until Building Bridges Between the Islands Why Separate Conventions Lead Separate Lives, Against an Undifferentiated Application of the 1980 UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and the 2006 Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts by an Interpretation in Context 5
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS (IN ENGLISH & GERMAN) Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg (Germany), 9 May, Topic: A Historical and Comparative Analysis of German and United States Trademark and Unfair Competition Conflicts Doctrine 2010 Leuphana University Lüneburg (Germany), 9 September 2010, Topic: An Economic Analysis of Moral Rights in Civil Law Copyright Protection Leuphana University Lüneburg (Germany), 8 September 2010, Topic: The Process of Trans-Nationalization in European Business Law Bay Area Fellows Technology & Intellectual Property Law Workshop, Berkeley University School of Law, Boalt Hall, 7 May Topic: Extra-Territorial Trademark Protection in United States Federal Courts, 1947- Stanford Law School, Stanford, USA, JSD Research Colloquium, 7 April Topic: Extra-Territorial Trademark Protection in United States Federal Courts, 1947- Conference of the Department of Justice, State of Baden- Wuerttemberg, Titisee, 20 June Topic: 16 UWG Werbung zwischen Vermögens- und Wettbewerbsschutz (Section 16 German Unfair Competition Act Advertising between Competition and Fraud) 6
Department of the Interior, State of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Boeblingen, 24 October Topic: Internationale Produktpiraterie in Theorie und Praxis (International Product Piracy Current Developments in Doctrine and Practice) 7