!!Christiane Wendehorst - Curriculum Vitae *2013 – today: Vice-President of the European Law Institute (ELI), from 2011-2013 Treasurer\\ *2008 – today Chair for Civil Law, University of Vienna\\ *2014 – today: Member, National Bioethics Commission at the Austrian Federal Chancellery \\ *2013 – today: Member, EU Law Advisory Board at the Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs \\ *2012 – today: Member of the Executive Board, Austrian Jurists' Association\\ *2007 – 2013: Member of the Board, ‘Zivilrechtslehrervereinigung’\\ *2006 – 2013 President (2006 – 2009) and Vice-President (2009 – 2013), European China Law Studies Association (ECLS)\\ *2000 – 2008 Managing Director, Sino-German Institute for Legal Studies (DCIR) \\ *1999 – 2008 Chair (C4) for Civil Law, Medical Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law, University of Göttingen \\ *2007 – 2008 Dean of Studies, Faculty of Law, Göttingen\\ *2005 – 2008 Director (from 2007 Managing Director), Institute of Legal History, Legal Philosophy and Comparative Law, Göttingen \\ *1999 – 2008 Member of the Board, Centre for Medical Law (until 2006: Director, Department for Medical Law and Pharmaceutical Law), Göttingen\\ *1998 – 1999 Gerd Bucerius Chair (C4) for civil law, comparative law and legal harmonisation in the Baltic Sea region, University of Greifswald \\ \\ *1998 Academic degree of Dr. jur. habil., LMU Munich; venia legendi for civil law, commercial law, private international law, comparative law and legal methodology \\ *1997 – 1998 Master of Laws, University of Cambridge\\ *1995 Doctorate in law (summa cum laude), LMU Munich\\ *1993 – 1998 Research assistant, Institute for International Law, LMU Munich\\ \\ *1995 Second State Examination in Law, Free State of Bavaria\\ *1993 First State Examination in Law, Free State of Bavaria\\ *1988 – 1993 Law studies, Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU), Munich