REBECCA SCHMIDT
Current Address:
European University Institute
Law Department
Via Boccaccio 121
50133 Florence
Italy
+39-342-366-3679
[email protected]
Permanent Home Address:
Albert-Schweitzer-Strasse 14
35232 Dautphetal
Germany
+49-176-6210-7742
EDUCATION
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Visiting Fellow at the Global Trust Research Project, March 2015-July 2015
European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Ph.D. Candidate, since September 2010 (final draft submitted, September 2014)
Master of Laws (LL.M), June 2011
Activities: June 2014 Teacher Training Seminar and Workshop
August 2012 – January 2014 Executive Editor European Journal of Legal Studies
2010-2012 Organizer of the Working Group on Enforcement of Transnational Private Regulation.
2012 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition (Colombian national rounds) Judge
of the final round.
2011 Research stay at the Graduate School in Public Administration and Public Policy (EGAP) of the
Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM), Monterrey, Mexico (July-August).
2011 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition (Russian national rounds) Judge in
the preliminary and advanced round.
New York University School of Law, New York, USA
LL.M. in International and Legal Studies, May 2010
University of Heidelberg School of Law, Heidelberg, Germany
First State Exam (with honors: Praedikatsexamen – 10.01 points) January 2009
Activities: 2009 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition coach of the university team.
2007 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition (national and international rounds) –
CMS Hasche Sigle National Runner-Up Award and Best Memorial Award in the national round and
Hardy C. Dillard Award (Sixth Place) in the international round.
2006 certificate: Basic Principles of French Law and the Relevant Legal Language
EXPERIENCE
EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE, Florence, Italy
Academic Assistant (part time), September 2014-December 2014
Position in the Academy of European Law; provides research and editorial assistance with the preparation of a
collected courses volume on extraterritorial human rights obligations in international law.
EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE, Florence, Italy
Student Assistant (part time), September 2010-December 2012
Assisted in the administration and organization of the project Private Transnational Regulation; co-organized a book
publishing process and a conference in Buenos Aires on Transnational Private Regulation Regimes; assisted in
academic research (in areas such as private regulation, international public law, conflict of laws).
SULLIVAN & CROMWELL LLP, Frankfurt, Germany
Law Clerkship (full time), April-July 2009
Practiced in the sectors capital markets/securities, mergers & acquisitions, and financing.
Researched for and drafted parts of a prospectus for capital increase. Reviewed and evaluated documents for due
diligence. Researched various legal matters in German corporate law and stock corporations law.
MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR COMPARATIVE PUBLIC AND INTERNATIONAL LAW, Heidelberg, Germany
Student Assistant (part time), May 2007-June 2008
Edited parts of WTO Commentary Series (Vol. 6 - GATS and 7 - GATT), revised submitted contributions, verified
used literature and assisted in the creation of the index.
INSTITUTE FOR HISTORY OF LAW AND EUROPEAN LAW, UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG LAW SCHOOL,
Heidelberg, Germany
Research Assistant to Professor Christian Baldus (part time), August 2005-December 2007
Assisted Prof. Baldus with his contributions to the Münchner Kommentar (Commentary on the German Civil Law
Code). Independently researched and evaluated literature and court decisions mainly relating to property law. Assisted
in the research and evaluation of foreign legal material (French civil law).
Internships at: District Court Heidelberg, Germany, September-October 2007; Mouly Associes Avocats (Attorneys),
Narbonne, France, September 2006; Spies and Partner (Attorneys), Biedenkopf, Germany, September 2005.
PUBLICATIONS
The ISO 26000 Process as a Model for Public-Private Cooperation in a Fragmented Transnational Regulatory
Space, IRPA Working Papers 2013/5
Transnational Private Regulation – OECD Case Study (with Fabrizio Cafaggi and Andrea Renda), in: International
Regulatory Co-operation: Case Studies, Vol. 3 (2013)
WORK IN PROGRESS
Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights and the Understanding of Sovereignty (with Nehal Bhuta)
Private Regulation and GAL – Why GlobalGAP Converted into a ‘Good Governor’
SCHOLARLY CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
28 November 2014 – Private Regulation and GAL – Why GlobalGAP Converted into a ‘Good Governor’ (at Lisbon
Center for Research in Public Law; Workshop on Global Administrative Law and the Concept of Law, selective
process)
2 May 2014 – The ISO 26000 Process as an Example of Cooperation in a Fragmented Transnational Environment
(at Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto Group Conference, selective process)
13-14 June 2013 – The ISO 26000 Process as a Model for Public-Private Cooperation in a Fragmented
Transnational Regulatory Space (at Università La Tuscia (Viterbo), 9th Global Administrative Law Seminar,
selective process)
20-21 September 2012 – Why Only Networks? The Nuanced Paths of Transnational Regulatory Cooperation (with
Fabrizio Cafaggi) (at University of Amsterdam, Conference on Postnational Rulemaking between Authority and
Autonomy, selective process)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Languages:
Hobbies:
German (native), English (fluent), Spanish (fluent), French (solid), Italian and Norwegian (basic).
Literature, opera, endurance sports (running and hiking).
REFERENCES
NEHAL BHUTA
Professor of Pubic International Law
European University Institute
Doctoral Supervisor
HANS-W. MICKLITZ
Professor of Economic Law
European University Institute
Villa Schifanoia,
Office CA 25
Via Boccaccio 121
50133 Firenze – Italy
Villa Schifanoia,
Office VS 35
Via Boccaccio 121
50133 Firenze – Italy
Tel.: +39 (0)55-4685-542
Email: [email protected]
Tel.: +39 (0)55-4685-556
Email: [email protected]
ARMIN VON BOGDANDY
Director of the Max Planck Institute
for Comparative Public Law
and International Law
Im Neuenheimer Feld 535
69120 Heidelberg
Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)6221 482-602
Email.: [email protected]