The Organizing Team
Organizers
Prof. Dr. Florian Bien, Maître en Droit (Aix-Marseille III)
E-Mail: florian.bien@uni-wuerzburg.de
Prof. Dr. Florian Bien holds the Chair for Global Business Law, International Arbitration Law and Private Law at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg. In addition to that, he acts as the vice Director of the Würzburg Graduate School Law, Economics, and Society. Before joining the Würzburg Law School, Professor Bien was a Senior Lecturer at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany (2007 - 2011) and at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France (2004 -2007), where he hold the position of a Maître de conferences associé. He is a regular guest professor of leading French universities, i. e. Aix-Marseille Université, Paris 1 Paris-Panthéon, Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas, Paris Ouest-Nanterre-La Défense, and Sciences Po Paris (Chair Alfred Grosser). He regularly publishes in the field of German and European Competition Law.
Education included a Master in European and International Law ("Maîtrise en Droit"), University of Aix-Marseille III, France (1999), First and Second State Examination, Tübingen, Germany (2001 and 2003), Doctorate in law (thesis on third party rights in merger control procedures, Prize of the Association of the Metal and Electrical Industry Baden-Württemberg 2006, Prize of the Reinhold-and-Maria-Teufel-Foundation 2007) and Habilitation in law (thesis on the coordination of liability in chains of contracts due to a divison of labor, Grant by the Baden Württemberg Foundation), both University of Tübingen (2006 and 2011). Practical training included internships in Law firms in Stuttgart, Paris and New York as well as a traineeship with the Competition Directorate of the European Commission in Brussels.
Professor Bien is a co-editor of the Neue Zeitschrift für Kartellrecht (Beck), a journal focusing on competition law, a co-editor of the Münchener Kommentar zum Europäischen Wettbewerbsrecht, an article-by-article commentary on EU competition law and practice (it’s first volume was edited in English language as “Brussels commentary”, Sweet & Maxwell, 2008), and a co-editor of the publication series “Wirtschaftsrecht und Wirtschaftspolitik” (Nomos) founded by Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker and comprising more than 300 volumes.
Dr. Björn Christian Becker
E-Mail: bjoern.becker@jura.uni-wuerzburg.de
Dr. Björn Christian Becker is Postdoc at the Chair for Global Business Law, International Arbitration Law and Private Law at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg. His research and teaching activities focus on civil law, civil procedure law as well as on German and European competition law, in particular law of digitization and sports law. In the past, Dr. Becker has given presentations and guest lectures in Germany and abroad, for instance at the College of Europe (Bruge, Belgium), the Université de Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Institute de recherche juridique de la Sorbonne (Paris, France), the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), the International Islamic University of Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg and the Leibniz University of Hanover. In September 2023, he organised an interdisciplinary postdoc conference in Würzburg on the topic of "Competition in digital markets" with presentations by a total of 16 postdocs from the fields of competition law and competition economics and a keynote speech given by Prof. Dr. Dr. Dres. h.c. Juliane Kokott, Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union. The format of this conference will be continued under joint organisation with the ASCOLA members Prof. Dr. Tabea Bauermeister (Regensburg) and Dr. Annika Stöhr (Ilmenau) as "Interdisziplinäres Forum Wettbewerb - IFW" (Interdisciplinary Forum for Competition).
Dr. Becker studied law with accompanying studies in European law at the University of Würzburg (2008-2014). During his legal clerkship ("Referendariat", 2017-2019), he worked at the German Federal Cartel Office (Bonn), in the Antitrust, Competition & Trade practice group at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (Berlin) and at the Malaysian-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia). His PhD project (2014-2018) was funded by the German National Academic Foundation. For his dissertation, which focuses on antitrust damages law, Dr. Becker received an award from the Esche Schümann Commichau Foundation (Hamburg). For his achievements in research and teaching at the University of Würzburg, Dr. Becker was awarded by the Juristen Alumni Würzburg e. V. in 2022. Furthermore, the Würzburg Faculty of Law honoured him with the 2023 Faculty Teaching Award.
Secretary’s office
Christina Riedmann
Doctoral candidates
Fabian Fischer
E-Mail: fabian.fischer@uni-wuerzburg.de
Florian Heimann
E-Mail: florian.heimann@uni-wuerzburg.de
Katharina Hofmann
Raffaele Palermo
Yasin Celik
Student assistants
Delia Diegmüller
Rosalie Gießelmann
Kim Herbig
E-Mail: kim.herbig@uni-wuerzburg.de
Julius Rettler
Sofia Schulz
Moritz Schwemmer
Elisabeth Servatius
Alia Yousaf
Ole Zimmermann
E-Mail: ole.zimmermann@uni-wuerzburg.de
