Philipp Niklot Hacker, LL.M. (Yale) Curriculum Vitae

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1 Philipp Niklot Hacker, LL.M. (Yale) Curriculum Vitae CONTACT INFORMATION: Kremmener Str. 15A D Berlin Germany cell phone number: DATE OF BIRTH: Born in Würzburg, Germany EDUCATION: 1995 Admission to Wirsberg High School in Würzburg, Germany March to July 2000 Attendance of the German School of Paris August to December 2001 Attendance of the private Casady High School, Oklahoma City, USA June 2004 Final exams at Wirsberg High School, Germany, with advanced level classes in mathematics and French; Grade: 1.0 (on a scale ranging from maximum of 1,0 to a minimum of 4,0; Top 3 high school graduates in all Bavaria) Winter Term 2004/05 Summer Term 2009 Legal studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Main courses and seminars: Antitrust Law, European Economic Law, Media Law, Unfair Competition Law, Intellectual Property Law Summer Term 2005 and Winter Term 2005/06 Secondary studies in philosophy at the University of Philosophy, Munich February August 2007 Exchange semester at the law school of the University of Salamanca, Spain Main courses: Contract Law and Private International Law

2 April 2009 April 2010 Secondary studies in German literature and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich Agnes Ament Scholarship of the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich for these studies July 2009 First State Exam in law Grade: 13,65 (out of 18) Top 0,5 % of class May 2010 May 2012 Compulsory legal trainee program (Rechtsreferendariat) in Berlin May 2012 Second State Exam Grade: 12,26 (out of 18) Top 1 % of class Since July 2012 Ph.D. with Professor Dr. Dr. Stefan Grundmann, LL.M. (Berkeley) at Humboldt University of Berlin on alternatives to the information model in private law and the normative implications of behavioral economics October 2013 May 2014 LL.M. program at Yale University Main classes: securities regulation and corporate law; contracts; behavioral law and economics; political and legal philosophy Grades: straight Honors for all graded classes; a final grade for the entire LL.M. does not exist at Yale PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE August September 2006 Internship with the law firm SKW Schwarz in Munich Focus of activities: Intellectual Property, especially Trademark Law, Corporate and Contract Law June 2007 Internship with the law firm of Professor Llamas Pombo in Salamanca, Spain Focus of activities: Spanish Private, Corporate and Insolvency law July 2007 Internship with Roxin Rechtsanwälte Focus of activities: Commercial and Tax Penal Law December 2007 May 2010 Scientific assistant to Professor Wolfgang Fikentscher, at the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Chair for European and International Competition Law, and at the Max-Planck- Institute for Competition, Intellectual Property and Tax Law in Munich Main topics: Legal Anthropology, Antitrust Law, Law of the Capital Markets 2

3 January April 2010 Scientific assistant to the Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Competition, Intellectual Property and Tax Law, Professor Josef Drexl Main topic: Study project in the Law of the Capital Markets July 2012 July 2013 Scientific assistant at Noerr LLP in the corporate law department October 2012 April 2013 Teaching assistant at Humboldt University of Berlin in commercial and company law January July 2013 and again since December 2014 Initiation and organization of the PhD seminar at Professor Grundmann s chair January May 2014 Initiation and organization of the reading group The Debates on Rationality in Social and Legal Analyses at Yale Law School, jointly with Professor David Singh Grewal Since October 2014 Scientific assistant at Professor Grundmann s chair at Humboldt University of Berlin AWARDS AND MEMBERSHIPS: 1999/ 2000 Second prize in the final round of the Bavarian State Mathematics Competition 2003 Second prize in the first round of the German National Mathematics Competition First Prize with the languages English and French in the final round of the German National Foreign Language Competition, the largest and most competitive language competition in the country, sponsored by the German Government; 2 4 individuals receive the First Prize every year after four rounds of selection out of roughly 800 initial candidates Subsequent admission to the German National Scholarship Foundation (membership until October 2009), the most common scholarship foundation in the country capitalized by the German Government 2004 Passing of the Bavarian Special Exam for Highly Gifted Students and subsequent admission to the Bavarian Scholarship Association Apollinaire-Award of the Robert Bosch Foundation for special merits in the French Advanced Level Class Admission to the Stiftung Maximilianeum in Munich, an institution awarding free board and lodging during the time of studies to students from all disciplines within the House of the 3

4 Bavarian Parliament; the scholarship is limited to 4 8 students admitted each year out of approximately 400 passing the final high school exams in Bavaria with the top grade of 1, Second prize with the languages of French and English in the final round of the German National Foreign Language Competition 2013 ERP Scholarship of the German National Scholarship Foundation (European Recovery Program) to support the completion of the LL.M. program Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to support the completion of the LL.M. program Arthur T. Vanderbilt Scholarship of NYU (rejected) Elsa-Neumann-Scholarship of Berlin to support the completion of the PhD thesis in law PUBLICATIONS: Papers: Korruptionsamnestie : Eine neue Vokabel im nachhaltigen Kampf gegen Korruption [ Amnesty for Corruption : A New Term in the Fight against Corruption], Zeitschrift für Rechtspolitik 2009, 4-6 (with Alexander Schemmel). Rechtsgeschäfte mit Unbekannten? Zu dogmatischen und praktischen Tücken im Umgang mit kartellrechtswidrigen Joint Ventures [Transactions with Unknown Parties? On Doctrinary and Practical Difficulties in Dealing with Joint Ventures Violating Antitrust Law], Rheinische Notar-Zeitschrift 2014, (with Christoph Spiering). Book: FairEconomy Crises, Culture, Competition and the Role of Law, 19 MPI Studies on Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Springer, Heidelberg et al., 2013, 150 pages (with Wolfgang Fikentscher and Rupprecht Podszun) Reviews: Adi Ayal, 45 International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law (2014). Marco Saverio Spolidoro, Rivista delle Società 2014, TALKS AND LECTURES: January 2013 Zwischen Gemeinwohlutopie und illiberaler Dystopie Gedanken zum debiasing im Privatrecht, Lecture at the PhD Seminar, Humboldt University of Berlin 4

5 July 2013 Bounded Rationality and Legal Concepts of Human Agency - Towards a Transparent System of Trade-Offs in Unfair Competition and Tort Law, Lecture at the PhD Seminar, Humboldt University of Berlin November 2013 Debias Them!? Towards a Critical Theory of Reducing Biases and Uncertainty in Private Law, Lecture at the 3 rd Yale Doctoral Scholarship Conference, Yale Law School, New Haven February 2015 Bounded Rationality, Uncertainty, and the Information Model in Private Law - Overcoming the Knowledge Problem in Behavioral Law and Economics, Lecture at the Private Law Forum for Doctoral Researchers, European University Institute, Florence COMMUNITY SERVICE AND COMMITMENT: Representative of the native village of Gerbrunn in the Youth Council of City Partnerships in Lower Franconia Part of the organizing team of the Africa Festival in Würzburg, responsible for translation and interpretation, event management and support of musicians LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES: German: mother tongue English: fluent in oral and written expression French: fluent in oral and written expression Spanish: fluent in oral and written expression Portuguese: medium knowledge Latin: advanced knowledge 5