WECHSLER, Andrea

Max Weber Fellow 2011-2012, 2012-2013 

Email Andrea.Wechsler@EUI.eu   
Tel. [+39] 055 4685 830
Office VF 105

European University Institute
Max Weber Programme
Via delle Fontanelle 10
I-50014 San Domenico

Departmental affiliation: Law  
Mentor: Hans-W. Micklitz   

My research interests are in International, European and Asian economic law and its theory, international trade, trade agreements, business transactions, international commercial arbitration and mediation, law and technology as well as (comparative) legal method and the economic analysis of the law. 

In 2011, I completed my doctoral dissertation “A Theory of Transnational Intellectual Property Law – Legal and Economic Perspectives on Balance” under the supervision of Reto M. Hilty at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich. 

Further research and publications have focused on international economic law, intellectual property and competition law, Chinese Law, and the economic analysis of said fields. I am currently finishing a monograph on intellectual property protection in the pharmaceutical, automotive, and software industries in the P.R. China. Future research projects investigate the transformation of enforcement in Europe with particular emphasis on the role of arbitration. 

Prior to joining the European University Institute I was both a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law and Coordinator of the International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation (IMPRS-CI). Further work experience includes management consulting, court clerking at the European Court of Justice in the Chambers of Judge Ninon Colneric, and lecturing in the China-EU School of Law.

My M.A. in Jurisprudence and my LL.M.s in international, comparative, and German law are from the University of Oxford, Columbia University School of Law, and the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich. I also hold a Chinese language diploma from Beijing University.

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