Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - International Dispute Resolution

Faculty

 

The IDR LL.M. Program is lead by Professor Dr. Gerhard Wagner, LL.M. (Chicago), one of the most prominent German arbitration experts in academia, Chair of Private Law, Business Law, and Economic Analysis of Law at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and member of the board of the German Arbitration Institute (DIS).

 

We are pleased to introduce the IDR LL.M. team:

 

Academic DirectorProf. Dr. Gerhard Wagner, LL.M. (Chicago)

Gerhard Wagner

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wagner has held the position of Professor of Private Law, Business Law, and Economic Analysis of Law at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 2013. He is the founder of the IDR LL.M. program.

Before joining the Law Faculty of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Wagner served as Executive Director of the Institute of Civil Procedure and Dispute Resolution at the University of Bonn. In 2003, he was a Visiting Fellow at University College in London, UK. During 2010-2011, he was Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL. From 2009 through 2014 he also served as Professor of Fundamentals of Private Law at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands. From 2008 through 2011 he was Honorary Professor of Law at Renmin University School of Law, Beijing, China.

Prof. Dr. Wagner is member of the Zivilrechtslehrervereinigung (Private Law Teachers’ Association), member of the European Law Institute, and a corresponding member of North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. From 2012-2021 he was Board Member of the German Institution of Arbitration (DIS). In 2013, Wagner was awarded the Prize of the Academy of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Since 2015, he has served as an External Academic Member of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg.

Prof. Dr. Wagner has published widely in the fields of contracts, torts, litigation and arbitration.

 

Academic Coordinator, Ms. Alicja Zielinska-Eisen, LL.M. (Humboldt)Alicja Zielinska-Eisen

Alicja is a Polish-qualified lawyer (adwokat) and works as the Academic Coordinator for the International Dispute Resolution (IDR) LL.M. at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She is combining her academic career with legal practice as an Of Counsel with the international dispute resolution boutique Queritius.

Alicja is involved in numerous initiatives for legal professionals, including speaking engagements at seminars and conferences in Warsaw, Berlin, Vienna, Puerto Rico and Hong Kong, and lectures on arbitration and ADR subjects. In recent years she was a faculty member during the Berlin Summer School on Intercultural Negotiation and Mediation organised by Tulane University and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 

Currently she serves as an ICC YAF Regional Representative for Europe and Russia and is a Member of the Arbitration Commission of the ICC Poland and the Commission’s working group on education and training in arbitration. She is an avid supporter of mooting and initiatives empowering the younger generation of lawyers, which she actively advocates for in her various roles including that of Secretary to the Board of the Moot Alumni Association (MAA).

Alicja graduated from the University of Silesia (Poland) and holds an LL.M. in International Dispute Resolution from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin as well as a Postgraduate Diploma in Negotiation, Mediation and other ADR awarded by the Warsaw University Centre for Dispute and Conflict Resolution.

 

Academic Coordinator, Mr. Filippo Furlano, LL.M. (Humboldt)

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Filippo is an Ontario-qualified lawyer (Canada) and works as an Academic Coordinator for the International Dispute Resolution (IDR) LL.M. at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Filippo is a member of the 2023 graduating class of the IDR LL.M. During his time in Berlin, he has gained experience in the field of international investment dispute settlement, through his work on International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) arbitration cases.

Prior to moving to Germany, Filippo worked for the Office of the Ombudsman of Ontario, where he addressed a wide range of concerns made by members of the public against government bodies. As a lawyer in his home province, he also practised in the fields of real estate, business, and commercial law.

In addition to the IDR LL.M., Filippo holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from McGill University (Canada), a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Leicester (United Kingdom), and in 2018, he was called to the Bar of Ontario (Canada).

 

Program Coordinator and Student Research Assistant for the Chair of Private Law, Business Law, and Economic Analysis of Law of Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wagner, LL.M. (Chicago), Ms. Elisa Henke
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Elisa is a fourth year law student at Humboldt University in Berlin, writing her first state exam perspectively in April 2024.

Before her studies, she worked as a trainee in the European Parliament and for UNESCO in refugee aid in Greece. She won the Bensberg Citizens' Award 2018 for her early voluntary commitment.

Her international orientation brought her to Berlin, where she has been studying in the European Law School programme at Humboldt University Berlin since 2020. As part of this programme, she will acquire two Master's degrees at foreign universities after her state examination in Berlin (Mastér at the Univiseridad Autónoma de Madrid / LLM at the King's College London)

She holds a scholarship by the Foundation of German Economy (Stiftung der deutschen Wirtschaft). In 2022 she participated in the Soldan Moot Court, where the team was awarded best Respondent Memorandum.

Latest, she participated in the 30th Willem C. VIS Moot Court, where she was awarded First Runner Up for the Martin Domke Award as Best Individual Oralist.

 

Program Coordinator and Student Research Assistant for the Chair of Private Law, Business Law, and Economic Analysis of Law of Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wagner, LL.M. (Chicago), Mr. Naod Mekonnen

Naod is a second year law student at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He holds a B.Sc. in Economics and Law from Universität Münster and has worked at an auditing firm where he assisted in white collar investigations. Furthermore, he worked in the legal department of a research centre where he was responsible for the oversight of non-disclosure agreements.  


Secretariat

Valeria Lühring