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Stephan Schmidt
Stephan Schmidt studied law in Bochum with a specialisation in employment and social law. He passed his first legal state exam in 2018 as the valedictorian at the Legal Faculty of the Ruhr-University. From 2018 to 2020 he worked on his doctoral thesis in the field of employment law. Simultaneously, he was a research assistant at the Chair for Civil Law, German and European Employment and Social Law of Prof. Dr. Jacob Joussen. In autumn 2020 he started his legal traineeship in Essen.