Curriculum Vitae of Vice President Prof. Dr. Achim Förster
born in 1979
| Period | Activity and academic background |
|---|---|
| From 2000 to 2005 | Law studies at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg |
| From 2006 to 2006 | Master's programme (LL.M.) at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis (USA) |
| From 2006 to 2007 | Scholarship holder in the DFG Graduate College "Intellectual Property and Public Domain" |
| 2008 | Doctorate (Dr. jur.) with a thesis on "Fair Use - Ein Systemvergleich der Schrankengeneralklausel des US-amerikanischen Copyright Act mit dem Schrankenkatalog des deutschen Urheberrechtsgesetzes" ("Fair Use – A Systems Comparison of the General Barriers Clause of the US Copyright Act with the Catalogue of Barriers of the German Copyright Act"). |
| From 2007 to 2009 | Legal clerkship with the Higher Regional Court District of Bamberg |
| From 2010 to 2015 | Judicial service of the Free State of Bavaria as a public prosecutor at the Public Prosecutor's Office in Schweinfurt, as a judge of the Local Court of Bad Neustadt a. d. Saale, and as a judge of the Regional Court of Schweinfurt |
| Since 01 Sept. 2015 | Professor of Copyright, Media Law and Media Policy at the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences |
| From 2016 to 2020 | Chair of the examination committee for the degree programme “International Social Work with Refugees and Migrants” |
| From 2019 to 2021 | International affairs officer of the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences |
| From 2020 to 2021 | Data Protection Officer at FHWS |
| Since 22 Oct 2021 | Vice President at THWS (back then: FHWS) |