Philipp Niklot Hacker, LL.M.

(Yale)
Curriculum Vitae

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Kremmener Str. 15A
D-10435 Berlin
Germany
email: philipp.hacker@rewi.hu-berlin.de
cell phone number: +49 1575 4854653

DATE OF BIRTH:
15.01.1985
Born in Wrzburg, Germany

EDUCATION:
1995
Admission to Wirsberg High School in Wrzburg, 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
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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 Rechtsanwlte
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-PlanckInstitute for Competition, Intellectual Property and Tax Law in Munich
Main topics: Legal Anthropology, Antitrust Law, Law of the Capital Markets
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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 Grundmanns 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 Grundmanns 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
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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 1,0
2005
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 fr
Rechtspolitik 2009, 4-6 (with Alexander Schemmel).
Rechtsgeschfte mit Unbekannten? Zu dogmatischen und praktischen Tcken 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, 349-365 (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 734736 (2014).
Marco Saverio Spolidoro, Rivista delle Societ 2014, 940-941.

TALKS AND LECTURES:

January 2013
Zwischen Gemeinwohlutopie und illiberaler Dystopie Gedanken zum debiasing im
Privatrecht, Lecture at the PhD Seminar, Humboldt University of Berlin
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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 3rd 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:

2002-2004
Representative of the native village of Gerbrunn in the Youth Council of City Partnerships in
Lower Franconia
2002-2006
Part of the organizing team of the Africa Festival in Wrzburg, 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