Additional qualification
Specialist lawyer for sports law
Lecturer
Friedrich Schiller University Jena; module "Professional Sports and Law"; MBA Sports Management, since 2010
Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg; module “Nationales und internationales Sportrecht” Bachelor's program “Betriebswirtschaftslehre für Leistungssportler/-innen” (B.A.), since 2007
Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences; modules "Sportrecht" and "Vermarktung und Recht"; Bachelor's degree program in Sports Management, since 2001 (appointed honorary professor in 2011)
Memberships, association activities
Sports Law Working Group in the DAV
Deutsche Vereinigung für Sportrecht e.V. (German Association for Sports Law)
International Sport Lawyers Association (ISLA)
Member of the Editorial Board of the scientific journal „Sciamus – Sport und Management“
Institute for Sports Management, Ostfalia HaW
Judge at the Deutsche Sportschiedsgericht (DIS) (German Court of Arbitration for Sport)
Member of the "Task Force" Anti-Doping Disputes at the DIS
Member of the Board of Trustees of Special Olympics Niedersachsen
Member of the founding commission of the Sports Governance Code
Full member of the Expert Committee for Sports Law of the Braunschweig, Celle and Oldenburg Bar Associations
Anti-Doping Officer of the Niedersächsische Leichtathletik-Verband (NLV) (Lower Saxony Athletics Association)
Vice President Law of the NLV
Deputy Chairman of the Legal Committee of the Deutsche Leichtathletik-Verband (DLV) (German Athletics Association)
Lions Club Hannover
Main focus
National and international sports law, club law, association law
Marketing of rights and sports sponsoring
Sports criminal law
Contract law, commercial law
Compliance (analysis, conception, support; whistleblower systems, external ombudsperson)
National and international arbitration law
Sports policy
Expert and consulting activities for the European Commission, Sports Committee of the German Bundestag, various parliamentary groups of the German Bundestag, Conference of Sports Ministers, etc.
Foreign languages
French
English