Franz Hofmann

Franz Hofmann, LL.M. (Cambridge) has held the Chair of Civil Law, Intellectual Property Law and Technology Law at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg since November 2016. He completed his »habilitation« at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich in the summer of 2016. He received his doctorate in Bayreuth (2009), where he previously had studied law. His main areas of interest are the basic principles in intellectual property law and unfair competition law, issues of enforcement (»Law of Remedies«) and liability issues. A special focus is on the legal issues of digitalization (»digital copyright«) and legal issues around »new media« such as YouTube etc.