GERD WINTER

Born 1943 in Diepholz/ Germany
First and second state examination in law (1966, 1971)
Dr. iur (Göttingen 1967), Lic. rer. soc. (Konstanz 1969)
1969-1973 Wiss. Assistant, University of Konstanz
1972/73 Visiting scholar Yale Law School
1973 – 2008 Professor of Law, University of Bremen
Since 2008 Research Professor at DFG Special Research Unit 597 “Transitions of the State”
1987-1994 Co-Director, Center for European Law and Policy (ZERP)
1994- (Co-)Director, Research Unit for European Environmental Law (FEU)
Legal consultancy on administrative and environmental law development in transition countries.
Current research: accesss to genetic resources and benefit sharing, biotechnology, climate change, agriculture, multi-level governance, transnational regulation.
Recent publication: (with Evanson Chege Kamau) (eds.) Common Pools of Genetic Resources, Earthscan 2013. See further www.uni-bremen.de/~winter