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Name | Prof. Dr. Dominique Jakob |
Date of birth | 2.6.1971 |
1990 | Maximiliansgymnasium Munich: Abitur, Max-Planck-Prize for special achievements in the humanities, Bavarian promotion of highly gifted students |
1990–1993 | Language courses of several months each at universities in Italy, Spain, France, Sweden and the USA |
1991–1993 | University of Augsburg: Studies of law and specialised foreign languages |
1993–1994 | Lund University, Sweden: Erasmus scholarship for the Master Programme in Public International Law and Human Rights of the Raoul Wallenberg Institutet for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in cooperation with Lund University. Acquisition of the title of “Master of International Law” (1997) |
1994–1997 |
University of Munich: Continuation of law studies, First State Examination via free try 1996/II |
1997–1999 | Legal traineeship in Munich, Second State Law Examination 1998/II |
1993 | Internship at the Studio Legale Associato Prof. G. Visentini, Rome, Italy (1993); simultaneous participation in a comparative law research project at the CERADI (Centro di ricerca applicata per il diritto dell'impresa) of the LUISS (Libera Università Internationale degli Studi Sociali) on fiduciary relationships |
1996 | Internships at the law firms Kanzleien Epple, Dr. Hörmann & Karsch, Augsburg, and Seitz, Weckbach, Fent, Augsburg |
1997 | Legal traineeship at Chadbourne & Parke LLP, New York, USA (1997) |
1999 | Legal traineeship at the German-Thai Chamber of Commerce, Bangkok, Thailand (1999) |
1997–1999 | Scholarship at the Max-Planck-Institute for foreign and international patent, copyright, and competition law, freelance research assistant in the “International Law” Department from August 1999 until the end of 2002 |
1999–2007 | Research assistant for Prof. Dr. Dagmar Coester-Waltjen, University of Munich, Institute for International Law - Comparative Law |
July 2001 | Doctorate (Dr. iur.); Title of the dissertation: “Die eingetragene Lebenspartnerschaft im Internationalen Privatrecht” (Registered Civil Partnership in International Private Law), Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Notarrechtlichen Vereinigung, Köln, 2002, 442 p. |
2004–2006 | Received a research (habilitation) grant from the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (German Research Foundation) for the research project “Interessenkonflikte im Stiftungsrecht” (Conflicts of Interest in Foundation Law). Research stays at the University of Zurich and the Vienna University of Economics and Business |
26.1.2006 | Habilitation, conferral of teaching authorization for “Civil Law, Commercial and Business Law, Civil Procedure Law, Private International Law, Comparative Law and Tax Law”. Appointment as private lecturer at the LMU Munich. The habilitation thesis “Schutz der Stiftung – Die Stiftung und ihre Rechtsverhältnisse im Widerstreit der Interessen” (Protection of the Foundation – The Foundation and its Legal Relationships in Conflicts of Interest), Verlag Mohr Siebeck (“Jus Privatum”), Tübingen 2006, was awarded with the “Helmut-Schippel-Preis 2006” of the German Notarial Association (NotRV). |
March 2006 | Visiting lecturer at the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha in Toledo, Spain |
WS 2006/2007 | Substitution of a “Chair for Civil Law and Corporate Law” at the University of Regensburg |
December 2006 | Appointment to a “Chair of Private Law” at the University of Zurich (successor to Prof. Dr. Hans Michael Riemer). Assumption of the Chair as of 1.6.2007. |
February 2008 | Foundation of the Center for Foundation Law at the University of Zurich |
2012–2014 | Consultant at Niederer Kraft & Frey AG, Zurich |
2015 | Foundation of the law firm Jakob Studen Partner GmbH, Zurich |
2018 | Foundation of Prof. Dr. Dominique Jakob – Private Clients and Foundations |
2022 |
Appointment as Foundation Law Delegate of the University Executive Board of the University of Zurich |
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