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Professor Peter-Christian Müller-Graff is Senior Professor for Private Law, Economic Law and European Law at the Heidelberg University Law Faculty, Jean Monnet Professor ad personam and former Dean of the Heidelberg Law Faculty. He is Member of Academia Europaea and Honorary Chairman of the Association of the German Law Faculties. His main research interests comprise European internal market law, the legal order of the economy, European private law, the constitutional law of the European Union and other European international organisations and the international Treaties of the European Union. He has published and edited many books on these subjects, published many articles and commentaries and is editor of the ten-volume Encyclopedia on European Law (Enzyklopädie Europarecht). He has been awarded several honorary doctorates (Universities of Athens, Bergen, Budapest ELTE, Kiew Mohyla, Kraków) and orders of merit (Germany, Austria, Brasil, Merite Européen en or). Professor Müller-Graff is counselor to public authorities, was counselor to the Convention on the Future of the European Union and represented the Federal Republic of Germany before the European Court of Justice. He has been judge at the Court of Appeals. He is President of the German Association of European Communities Studies (Arbeitskreis Europäische Integration), managing board member of the German Association of European Law (Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Europarecht) and member of the Comité Directeur (as well as former General Secretary and Rapporteur Général) of the Fédération Internationale pour le Droit Européen (FIDE). He was Chairman of the European Research Training Group of the German Research Foundation on “Transformation and Economic Integration in Europe”. He pursued his studies at the universities of Göttingen, Berlin (FU), Tübingen and Cornell, N.Y. (USA), was scholarship holder of the German National Scholarship Foundation, passed the State Exams in Law in Baden-Württemberg, earned his doctorate (Dr.iur.) and habilitation (Dr.iur.habil.) at Tübingen University and was scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation. Prior to his appointment at Heidelberg in 1994 he was professor of law at the universities of Köln (Cologne) and Trier. Professor Müller-Graff has held several visiting professorships in other European countries (in particular in France, Belgium -Collège d´Europe-, Austria, Switzerland, Poland and Hungary), in the USA (Cornell, Georgetown) and in Asia (Nihon, Tokyo; Tongji, Shanghai).

Lena Hornkohl studied law in Heidelberg and Uppsala. After obtaining her first state exam in 2014, she completed her legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court Karlsruhe (with stages, inter alia, at the European Commission) and completed the second state exam in 2016. After having earned a master’s degree from the College of Europe in European Law and Economic Analysis in 2019, she received a Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg for a dissertation on the protection of confidential information in private enforcement of European Competition Law in 2020. During her doctoral studies, she worked as a Research Assistant at the Chair for Civil Law, Corporate and Commercial Law, European Law and Comparative Law of Professor Müller-Graff at the University of Heidelberg. In 2019, she commenced her work as a lawyer in the competition law department of a major international law form in Brussels before joining the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law as a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of European and Comparative Procedural Law in 2020. She is currently pursuing her postdoctoral studies (Habilitation) at the University of Heidelberg under the supervision of Professor Burkhard Hess. In 2022, she was appointed as Tenure Track Professor for European Law at the University of Vienna. Her research interests focus on European, Economic, Private, Procedural and Comparative Law.

Dr. Johannes Reitzel is counsel at King & Wood Mallesons. Besides advising on employment law aspects of transactions, he gives ongoing employment law advice to corporate clients. Further, he advises directors, officers and board members on the conclusion, termination and modification of service agreements. Dr. Johannes Reitzel has gained extensive experience in his areas of competence while working for an international project developer and a German M&A boutique. Moreover he has managed complex termination procedures, has accompanied international and domestic transactions of great complexity and has given ongoing employment-law advice to companies for many years.

Bruno Striebel studied law in Heidelberg, Lisbon and Konstanz. He is an academic assistant to Professor Mueller-Graff since 2020. In this capacity, he participated at the European Law Moot Court in 2019 and was coach of the team the year after. In June 2022 he graduated from Heidelberg University with his first state exam. Between October 2022 and March 2023, he worked in the dispute resolution team of a renown law firm in Frankfurt. Since April 2023 he is a legal clerk at the Higher Regional Court Karlsruhe. Bruno Striebel already taught at the Summer School in 2021.

Sc.D. Olena Shablii since 1998 has been teaching translation studies and legal German at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (since 2012 at the Faculty of Law, Department of Foreign Languages). 2002 – 1st (candidate’s) dissertation ‘Interlingual Terminological Homonymy as a Problem of Terminological Lexicography and Translation Studies’; 2013 – 2nd (doctor’s) dissertation ‘Theoretical Bases and Methodology of German-Ukrainian Legal Translation’. She has published several books ‘Translation of Legal Texts’ (2008), German-Ukrainian Legal Translation: Methods, Problems, Prospects (2012), is co-author of ‘Weißbuch zur Reform der ukrainischen Juristischen Ausbildung: Deutsch-Ukrainische Erfahrungen’ (2015) and author of over 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals. She was visiting professor and researcher at the Herder-Institute of the University Leipzig, Germany (2011), Bologna University, Italy (2014), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany (2015), Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck (2011, 2019). Since 2015 President of the NGO German-Ukrainian Jurisprudential Dialogue, coordinator of several German-Ukrainian projects (among them conferences and workshops on Reform of Ukrainian legal education, German-Ukrainian Legal Translation School, German-Ukrainian Legal Database etc.), member of GfdS (Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache e.V.), member of IATI (International Academy for Translation and Interpreting).

Dr. Torben Ellerbrok studied law in Münster and Geneva. After obtaining his first state exam in 2014, he was a research assistant at the Department for German and Administrative Law at the University of Heidelberg. In 2019 he obtained his PhD with a thesis about bylaws which was awarded by the German Federal Administrative Court. During his legal clerkship he spent stages at the regional court in Hamburg, at the University of Speyer and at the German Federal Constitutional Court. After three years of editing a new handbook for administrative law at the University of Heidelberg, in 2023, he commenced his work as an assistant professor (Juniorprofessor) at the Free University in Berlin. Torben Ellerbrok is interested in German and European public law.

After studying law at the University of Heidelberg, JProf. Dr. Jacqueline Lorenzen worked for several years as a research assistant at the Heidelberg University’s Institute for German and European Administrative Law and received a doctorate degree in the field of European Administrative Law. Her subsequent legal clerkship in the district of the Higher Regional Court of Munich was followed by postdoctoral activities at the Institute for German and European Administrative Law as well as in the interdisciplinary Thematic Research Network "Umwelten - Umbrüche - Umdenken" at the University of Heidelberg. As of April 2023, she was appointed junior professor at the University of Bonn, where she is working on issues of the law of sustainability and ecological transformation within the Transdisciplinary Research Area "Individuals, Institutions and Societies".

Dr. Ivan Yatskevych, Vice Dean, Associate Professor of the Department of Private Law Doctor of Philosophy (Law), Executive Secretary of Editorial Board of Professional Journal "NaUKMA Research Papers. Law". The circle of research interests comprises theoretical and practical problems of labour law and social security law, European labour law, human rights law. The issues of legal guaranties of the right to work, labour rights as human rights, the issues of occupation and employment, the rights of persons with disabilities (particularly rights to social security and employment) belong to the core of research field. Teaching: Labour law, European Labour Law