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) 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 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 Research/teaching assistant and lecturer in private law, European private law, civil procedure - 1997-2000 2
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (IN ENGLISH & GERMAN) Books (in English & German) Current Project (Habilitation thesis): Transnational Goodwill, Transnational Policy International Trademark Law in Historical, Economic, and Doctrinal Perspective 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 Treatises (in English & German) The Principles of European Contract Law, the Draft Common Frame of Reference, and German Law, Chapter 9 (Particular Remedies for Non-Performance, artt. 9:101 bis 9:510), Matthias Lehmann & Stefan Leible (eds.), WoltersKluwer, 110 pages, forthcoming Rome I Regulation, artt. 5 and 11, Franco Ferrari (ed.), Sellier- Verlag, 30 pages, forthcoming Erman, Kommentar zum Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch (Treatise on the German Civil Code), 13th edition, 677-687 (negotiorum gestio) 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 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) 2008, 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. 2008 3
Articles (in German) Das Dilemma der Erbensucher, forthcoming in JZ, june issue (The heir searcher s dilemma An economic analysis of doctrinal cul-de-sacs) Die auftragslose Geschäftsführung auf der Grenzlinie zwischen realem und hypothetischem Vertrag, forthcoming in ZjS, june issue (The law of rescue and salvage (negotiorum gestio) in doctrinal and economic analysis) 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 2008, 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 ) 2010 2008 2006 4
Europäische Versicherer im Visier amerikanischer Bundesgerichte, VersR, 570-574 (European Insurance Companies and Holocaust Liability) SELECTED PRESENTATIONS (IN ENGLISH & GERMAN) New York University School of Law, New York, Hauser Global Fellows Forum, 18 November Topic: From International Goodwill to Transnational Policy: The Demise of Trademark Property in Conflicts Doctrine 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 Transnationalization in European Business Law Berkeley University School of Law, Boalt Hall, Bay Area Fellows Technology & Intellectual Property Law Workshop, 7 May Topic: Extra-Territorial Trademark Protection in United States Federal Courts, 1947-2008 Stanford Law School, Stanford, USA, JSD Research Colloquium, 7 April Topic: Extra-Territorial Trademark Protection in United States Federal Courts, 1947-2008 5