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IMKR Semester Program for the Summer Semester 2019

In the summer semester 2019, the Institute for Media and Communications Law (IMKR) will once again offer several evening events, all in Room US-A 120 and each followed by a reception.


  • On Monday, April 29, at 7:30 p.m., Prof. Dr. Nikolas Guggenberger of the University of Münster will speak on “Facebook, Google, and Co.—Regulatory Initiatives from Germany and the U.S.”
  • On Wednesday, May 15, at 7:30 p.m., Dr. Denise Wiedemann, LL.M. (Lisbon), Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, will provide further details on Instagram & Co. and consumer protection (see the announcement for the lecture).
  • On Wednesday, June 5, at 7:00 p.m., Dr. Timon Grau, a specialist attorney in labor law and partner at Linklaters in Düsseldorf, will speak on “Data Protection and Labor Law in Internal Investigations.”
  • On Wednesday, July 3, at 7:30 p.m., Prof. Dr. Reinhard Ellger, LL.M. (Pennsylvania), Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, will conclude the series with a presentation on “Facebook and Antitrust Law.”

In addition, there will be a lecture in the practice-oriented “WIR-UP” series (Business Law in Corporate Practice) on Wednesday, July 10, at 6:00 p.m., featuring Dr. Andreas Plate on “Labor Law in the Healthcare Sector—Selected Case Studies from Medical Practices and Hospitals” in US-F 103.

For more information, see the IMKR website.