Antonios Politis, LL.M. (NYU)

Antonios Politis is an associate in the firm’s Disputes & Investigations practice group. His practice focuses on commercial law as well as civil procedural law. He advises and represents companies in complex national and international arbitration proceedings as well as in disputes before German courts.

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Career

Since 2018	Associate, Taylor Wessing
2014 – 2017	Legal clerkship, Higher Regional Court of Hamburg with internships in Hamburg and Tokyo, Japan
2012 – 2014	Research Assistant, Institute for the Law of the Sea and for Maritime Law, University of Hamburg

Education

2018	Admitted as a lawyer, Germany
2018	New York State Bar examination
2017 – 2018	LL.M. studies specialising in International Business Regulation, Litigation and Arbitration, New York University

2017	Second state examination, Hamburg
2011	First state examination, Hamburg
2005 – 2011	Legal studies, University of Hamburg and the Université Panthéon–Sorbonne, Paris

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Publications

Case note on the CJEU’s judgment “Pešková v.Travel Service” (C-315/15) in the field of Transport Law, published in: Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (NJW) 2017, p. 2665.
Jessen/Werner (ed.), Brussels Commentary on EU Maritime Transport Law, 1st edition 2016, Chapter on Regulation (EC) No. 392/2009 on the liability of carriers of passengers by sea, pp. 478–570
Case note on the judgment “Thibodeau v. Air Canada” by the Supreme Court of Canada, published in: Recht der Transportwirtschaft (RdTW) 2015, pp. 486–488
Case note on the judgment “Stott v. Thomas Cook” by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, published in: Recht der Transportwirtschaft (RdTW) 2015, pp. 475–477
Schwerdtfeger (ed.) Commentary on German Corporate Law, 3rd edition 2014: Chapter on Sect. 53a – 75 of the German Stock Corporations Act (AktG), pp. 1242–1371
“Sturgeon und kein Ende: Zum Umgang der Gerichte mit einer möglichen Kompetenzüberschreitung des EuGH“ (academic paper on transgressions of competence by the CJEU, published in: Europäische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht (EuZW) 2014, pp. 8–12
“Ausgleichsansprüche für Flugverspätungen nach der jüngsten Rechtsprechung des EuGH” (academic paper on passengers‘ compensation rights for flight delays), published in: Recht der Transportwirtschaft (RdTW) 2013, pp. 190–196
Editor of the legal journal on International Commercial and Transport Law “Recht der Transportwirtschaft” (2013 – 2018)