Expert for Intellectual Property Law joins the Cluster: Alexander Peukert
03 November 2008
Dr. iur. habil. Alexander Peukert becomes junior professor for international intellectual property law within the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”.
Peukert works on intellectual property rights with a special focus on conflicts associated with their expansion.
These concern for instance the access to vital pharmaceuticals and generika in the developing world or the monopolization of traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples without their consent (“biopiracy”). Peukert investigates how these conflicts affect the International Intellectual Property Rights System.
Alexander Peukert, born in 1973, studied law in Freiburg i.Br., where he received his doctorate in 1999. After his second Staatsexamen in Berlin 2001 he worked as a lawyer before he became research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich in 2002 (until 2008). In 2008 he received his Habilitation from LMU Munich and became a temporary professor at Vienna University of Economics.
