Jörg Philipp Terhechte
Jörg Philipp Terhechte (born 1975 in Salzkotten) is a German legal scholar, a university professor at the University of Lüneburg[1] and an Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow.[2]
Life
After graduating from the Georgianum high school in Vreden Terhechte studied jurisprudence and philosophy at the University of Bielefeld from 1995 to 2000. In 2000 he passed the first state examination at the Higher Regional Court of Hamm. From 2003 to 2005 he completed his legal clerkship, inter alia at the Federal Cartel Office in Bonn, the law firm Coudert Brothers LLP US in Brussels and the US Federal Trade Commission in Washington D.C. In 2005 he completed the 2nd state examination in Düsseldorf. In 2003 he completed his studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bielefeld with a Dr. jur. Doctorate. In his dissertation Terhechte studied "The unwritten constituent elements of European competition law." From 2000 to 2004 he was a research associate of Armin Hatje at the Department of Public Law, European and International Law at the University of Bielefeld. From 2004 to 2006 he was an Assistant Professor at this Chair. From 2006 to 2011 he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Law and Political Science (European Community Law Seminar) at the University of Hamburg. In 2011 he was appointed to a Professorship for Public Law (Constitutional and Administrative Law) and European Law at the University of Siegen. Since October 2012 he holds the Chair of Public Law, European and International Law, Regulatory and Antitrust Law at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg. His research interests are public law as well as European and international law. He focusses on EU law as well as European and international business law, in particular the competition and regulatory law. Terhechte is considered very pro-European and internationally well-connected. Jörg Philipp Terhechte has two children and is married to the lawyer and lecturer Nicole Terhechte-Gerick.
Work
Terhechte is an executive director of the Competition & Regulation Institute of the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Director of the Leuphana Professional School (professional education) and a member of various university committees (including speaker of the doctoral program in jurisprudence and the doctoral committee of jurisprudence). He is the deputy director of the Leuphana Law School and therein responsible for internationality. He is the director of the PELP's program (Public Economics, Law and Politics - Political Science) as well as founder and director of the Competition & Regulation Master program at the Professional School of the Leuphana (LL.M.). In addition, he created the master's program "International Economic Law" (LL.M.) as a part of a dual master's program with the School of Law of the University of Glasgow which launched in 2014. Since 2008 Jörg Philipp Terhechte is co-editor of the European Yearbook of International Economic Law and since 2004 part of the editorial board of the leading academic journal on European law Europarecht. He is since 2008 overall editor of the ten-volume Enzyklopädie des Europarechts. Terhechte held a series of lectures, inter alia in Brussels, Budapest, Glasgow, Jakarta, Beijing, Prague, Seoul, St. Petersburg, Ulaanbaatar, Washington, DC and Vienna. In addition he was a lecturer for the German Foreign Ministry, the European Commission, the US Federal Trade Commission, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the German Lawyers Institute, the OECD, the European School of Governance and the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce.
Research stays / Guest Professorships / Awards
In 2005 Terhechte was honored for his doctoral thesis with the dissertation prize of the Westphalia-Lippe University Society. In 2006 he was a DAAD-visiting scholar at the George Washington University Law School and at the US Federal Trade Commission in Washington DC. In 2008 he was a DAAD-Visiting Fellow at the Institute for European and Comparative Law at the University of Oxford and a visiting professor at the Radboud University of Nijmegen. Since 2011 he is a Fellow of the Europa-Kolleg in Hamburg. Since 2006, he has been a lecturer and faculty member at the Europa-Kolleg in Hamburg. Since 2007 he is continuously lecturer at the Charles University in Prague. Since 2008 he is a lecturer at the China-Europe School of Law in Beijing and he is continuously a lecturer of "German and International Commercial Law" in St. Petersburg. Since 2014 he is a lay judge at the Administrative Court of Lüneburg (disciplinary tribunal) and since 2006 a member of the Judicial Examination Office at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg. In 2015 the University Court of the University of Glasgow appointed Jörg Philipp Terhechte as an Honorary Professor.
References
- ↑ "Leuphana Universität Lüneburg: Joerg Philipp Terhechte". www.leuphana.de. Retrieved 2015-09-23.
- ↑ "University of Glasgow - Schools - School of Law - Our staff - Jorg Terhechte". www.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-09-23.