Our judges

Born in

• 1974

Educational background

• Degree from the University of Bonn (1994–1998)
• Master of Laws (LL.M.) at Pennsylvania State University

Doctorate

• Legal interpretation in the USA and Germany: Historical development, modern discussion of methods and the effects of divergences for international uniform sales law (CISG), Mohr Siebeck, 2005.

Languages

• English - native speaker level, French - fluent, Spanish - basic knowledge 

Professional experience

• Many years working as a research associate at the Institute for International Private Law and Comparative Law at the University of Bonn (Prof. Dr. Wulf-Henning Roth)
• Clerkship in the legal department of a major company (Robert Bosch GmbH)
• In the framework of secondment in Dept. II of the Ministry of Justice, responsible, for instance, for international civil law assistance, as well as acting as a state monitor in EU council meetings in Brussels related to European civil procedures.

Professional court experience

• Many years of experience as a judge on the District and Higher Regional Court, including in the 17th/11th Civil Chamber of the Regional Court of Stuttgart (in particular special responsibility for trademark, copyright, antitrust and competitive law) as well as in the 14th Civil Senate of the Higher Regional Court Stuttgart (special responsibility for GmbH law, law governing commercial partnerships, other partnerships and international equivalents, including for “GbR” law (civil law partnerships).
• Public prosecutor in the Commercial Criminal Law department of the Stuttgart public prosecutor’s office.

Publications (excerpt)

• Legal interpretation in the USA and Germany: Historical development, modern discussion of methods and the effects of divergences for international uniform sales law (CISG); Univ. Diss., Mohr Siebeck Verlag Tübingen 2005.
• The role of the German federal states in European legislative procedures after Lisbon, EuR 2011, 655 et seq.
• IWRZ 2025, 231-239 (mit Link auf: https://www.nomos.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Aufsatz_IWRZ_2025_05.pdf)

Educational background

• Degree from the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen with additional economic qualification (accounting)

Doctorate

• Actual effects on properties subject to a priority notice – as well as a contribution to the understanding of invalidity under Sections 883 para. 2, 888 para. 1 BGB, Verlag Duncker & Humblot, 1998

Languages

• English
• French

Publications

• Actual effects on properties subject to a priority notice – as well as a contribution to the understanding of invalidity under Sections 883 para. 2, 888 para. 1 BGB, Verlag Duncker & Humblot, 1998
• Henssler/Strohn, Corporate Law, Verlag C.H. Beck, Comments on Sections 45 and 46 GmbHG (since the 1st ed. 2011)

Professional experience

• Many years of work as a research associate at the Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ernst)
• Many years working as Director of the Notarial Academy of Baden-Württemberg as an auxiliary position

Professional court experience

• Multiple years as a public prosecutor in criminal commercial cases at the Stuttgart public prosecutor's office (focus: insolvency offenses, bank and stock market offenses, violations of the Banking Act)
• Multiple years of experience as a judge at the District and Regional Court of Stuttgart (including with special responsibilities for copyright, publishing laws, industrial design laws, industrial property rights, media and competition law matters in the 17th Civil Chamber of the Regional Court of Stuttgart, as well as for disputes arising from banking and financial transactions in the 25th Civil Chamber of the Regional Court of Stuttgart)
• Multiple yeas of work as a research associate at the German Federal Court of Justice (II. Civil Senate) in corporate law
• Many years of experience as a judge at the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart since 2009, in particular as Deputy Chair (including with special responsibilities on the 14th Civil Senate for laws governing partnerships, on the 19th Civil Senate for laws governing private companies and for inheritance law, and on the 20th Civil Senate initially for stock corporation law, as well as stock and transformation law shareholder actions, and later with expanded special responsibility for law governing all corporations and partnerships, partnerships with limited professional liability, cooperations and associations, as well as comparable organizations under international law, D&O liability, shareholder actions and investor model proceedings in accordance with KapMuG).
• Multiple years working as an expert for legal remedies at Civil Senates of the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart
• Many years of membership in the executive committee of the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart

Born in

• 1974

Educational background

• University of Heidelberg and University of Tübingen (1995-1999)

Doctorate

• German-French legal comparison with legal and economic analysis of non-material damages under contract law

Languages

• English

Work outside the Judiciary

• Research associate at the Department for Civil Law, Labor Law and the History of Modern Private Law at the Legal Department of the University of Tübingen (Prof. Dr. Eduard Picker, 2000-2008)

Professional court experience

• Many years of experience as a judge at the District, Regional, and Higher Regional Court (in the 14th and 20th Civil Senate).
• Research associate at the VI Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice (2014-2017)
• Research associate to BVerfR aD Prof. Dr. Johannes Masing, First Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court (2019-2020)

Born in

• 1972

Educational background

• University of Freiburg im Breisgau
• University of Freiburg im Breisgau 

Languages

• English, Portuguese, French

Professional experience

• Stage Structurel at the European Commission, Directorate General of Law, Freedom and Security (2008)

Professional court experience

• Served in a variety of positions since 2001 at the Baden-Württemberg state judiciary; many years of work as a judge on the Civil Senate at Regional Courts (Heilbronn and Tübingen and at the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart.
• Head of working groups in civil law for junior lawyers at the District Court of Tübingen (2009-2017)

Educational background

• 1996 - 2004 Studied law and completed doctorate at the University of Konstanz
• 2004 - 2006 Legal clerkship at the Regional Court of Stuttgart
• 2006 - 2007 LL.M.-degree at the University of Texas at Austin

Languages

• English, Spanish, French (fluent)

Publications (excerpt)

• 2025 Klink, Conducting Proceedings in International Legal Disputes Before the Commercial Court, IPRax 2025, 127-133
• 2025 Klink, Germany’s New Commercial Court System: State Courts with Arbitration Tools, Anwaltsblatt online (8 October 2025)
• 2025 Klink, Point Made and Point Taken: Persuasive Briefs and Opinions for Commercial Courts (book review), Transatlantic Law Journal 2025, 138-139
• 2024 Klink, The Commercial Court after the Legal Venue Strengthening Act  – a model project for international court proceedings, IPrax 2024, 349-355
• 2022 Klink/Fabian, chapter “Changing legal forms” and “Restructuring in the European domestic market” in Haman/sigle/Gub, Corporate Law, Financing and Corporate succession, 3rd ed. 2022
• 2018 Klink, El nuevo Registro de transparencia alemán y otras cuestiones actuales de transparencia en Alemania, Dilemata – Revista Internacional de Éticas Aplicadas, número 27 (2018), 149-165

Membership

• Federal Committee of the German-American Jurists' Association 

Professional experience

• 2007 - 2009 Attorney in corporate law and M&A, CMS Hasche Sigle, Stuttgart
• 2009 - 2013 Judge at a Civil Commercial Chamber of the Regional Court of Stuttgart and public prosecutor in the Stuttgart public prosecutor's office for economic crimes.
• 2013 - 2017 Expert in corporate law for the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Justice
• 2017 - 2019 Judge at a Civil Commercial Chamber of the Regional Court of Stuttgart.
• Since 2019 Judge at the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart, Deputy Chair of the Senate for partnership law and Deputy Chair of the Commercial Court appeals body with a focus on corporate acquisitions

Work as an appointed expert

• 2010 Expert in legal dispute within the European parliament regarding introduction of an EU contract law instrument for international transactions
• 2023 Expert on the legal committee of the German Bundestag regarding the German Legal Venue Strengthening Act relating to the introduction of Commercial Courts
• 2024 Expert on the legal committee of the German Bundestag regarding modernizing arbitration proceedings law.

Lectureships

• Lecturer in Corporate Law and Capital Markets Law at the University of Tübingen
• Lecturer in International Civil Procedure Law and Private International Law (advanced course in the 2^nd state examination for lawyers)

Born in

• 1995

Educational background

• 2014 – 2019 Studied law at the University of Tübingen
• 2019 – 2021 Legal clerkship at the Regional Court of Stuttgart
• 2021 – 2026 Doctoral candidate at the University of Tübingen
• 2025 – 2026 LL.M.-studies at the University of Edinburgh

Languages

• English (fluent)
• Italian (basic knowledge)

Memberships

• Society for Comparative Law, e.V.

Professional experience

• Research Associate in Dispute Resolution at an international law firm in Stuttgart