Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law

Academic Career:

Holger studied law as well as English and French law and language at Münster's Westphalian Wilhelms University. He graduated with the German equivalent of a J.D. in 2000. In 2001 he obtained an LL.M. degree from UC Berkeley. From 2001 to 2002 he worked as a junior research fellow at Heidelberg's Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. In 2003 he returned to UC Berkeley as a visiting research fellow. From 2004 to 2006 he clerked in Hamburg, Berlin, Speyer, Madrid and Alicante. In 2006 he obtained his J.S.D. from the University of Hamburg with a thesis on "The WTO and Human Rights: The Case of TRIPS and Access to Medication". From 2006 to November 2007 he worked as a senior research fellow at the institute. From November 2007 to January 2009 Holger was at UC Berkeley school of law, first as senior visiting research fellow, then as lecturer. He then stayed as a visiting research fellow at the legal research institute of UNAM, Mexico until May 2009 and as a visiting fellow at the European University Institute in Fiesole, Italy until September 2009. He returned to the institute in October 2009 to head an Otto Hahn Group.

Holger was a German National Merit Foundation Fellow, a German National Merit Foundation Doctoral Fellow and a Fulbright Fellow. His doctorate was awarded with an Otto Hahn Medal and an Otto Hahn Group. He is admitted to the New York Bar.

Holger is a Member of the Executive Council of the Society of International Economic Law and Co-Chair of the Red Latino-Americana de Derecho Internacional Económico.

Recent publications

• Art. XIII. In: Trade in Goods, Max Planck Commentaries on World Trade Law, Vol. 5, Rüdiger Wolfrum & Peter-Tobias Stoll & Holger Hestermeyer (ed.), Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden 2010, 19-p (together with Friedl Weiss).
• Mercenaries. In: Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Rüdiger Wolfrum (ed.), Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, 22-p.
• Preamble. In: Trade In Goods, Max Planck Commentaries on World Trade Law, Vol. 5, Rüdiger Wolfrum & Peter-Tobias Stoll & Holger Hestermeyer (ed.), Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden 2010, 8-p, forthcoming (together with Andrew Grotto).
• Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961). In: Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Rüdiger Wolfrum (ed.), Oxford University Press, Oxford 2009, 23-p.
• Chapter 247 Article 155 TEC On Achieveing Trans-European Networks. In: Smit & Herzog on The Law of the European Union, Hans Smit et al. (ed.), LexisNexis / Matthew Bender, Newark, San Francisco 2008, 1-16 (together with Felix Arndt).
• Canadian-made Drugs for Rwanda: The First Application of the WTO Waiver on Patents and Medicines, 2007. ASIL Insight 2007 (11) 28. International Economic Law Edition
• Art. XXVI. In: WTO - trade in services, Rüdiger Wolfrum, Peter-Tobias Stoll, Clemens Feinäugle (eds.), Max Planck Commentaries on World Trade Law, Vol. 6. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden 2008, 524-532 (together with Thamara Romero Montoya).
• Chapter 248 Article 156 TEC On Trans-European Networks Measures. In: Smit & Herzog on The Law of the European Union, Hans Smit et al. (ed.), LexisNexis / Matthew Bender, Newark, San Francisco 2008, 1-8 (together with Felix Arndt).
• Human Rights and the WTO. The Case of Patents and Access to Medicines. (Paperback). Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 2008, 416 p.
• Chapter 246 Article 154 TEC On the Establishment and Development of Trans-European Networks. In: Smit & Herzog on The Law of the European Union, Hans Smit et al. (ed.), LexisNexis / Matthew Bender, Newark, San Francisco 2008, 1-13.
• Chapter 245 Introduction to TEC Title XV - Trans-European Networks. In: Smit & Herzog on The Law of the European Union, Hans Smit et al. (ed.), LexisNexis / Matthew Bender, Newark, San Francisco 2008, 1-9.
• Medicamentos, direitos humanos e patentes. In: Folha de Sao Paulo, A3, 14.06.2007. (together with Flavia Piovesan)
• Where Unity Is at Risk: When International Tribunals Proliferate. In: International Law Today: New Challenges and the Need for Reform?, D. König, P.-T. Stoll, V. Röben, N. Matz-Lück (eds.), Springer, Heidelberg 2008, 123-140.
• Preamble. In: WTO - trade in services, Rüdiger Wolfrum & Peter-Tobias Stoll & Clemens Feinäugle (ed.), Max Planck Commentaries on World Trade Law, Vol. 6. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden 2008, 17-29.
• Human Rights and the WTO. The Case of Patents and Access to Medicines. Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 2007, 416 p.
• Das Recht auf ein faires Verfahren - Ausbildung von Richtern und Staatsanwälten in Afghanistan. In: Jahresbericht / Annual Report 2006 (DVD Jahrbuch 2006/2007 Tätigkeitsbericht Publikationen 2006), MPG, München 2007, 8-pages (together with Ramin Moschtaghi & Tilmann Röder).
• Art. III GATT. In: Technical Barriers and SPS Measures, Max Planck Commentaries on World Trade Law, Vol. 3, Rüdiger Wolfrum & Peter-Tobias Stoll & Anja Seibert-Fohr (ed.), Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden 2007, 2-45.

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