Hans-W. Micklitz, Part-time Professor of Economic Law, European University Institute, Florence Italy, fullt-time between 2007 and 2019, formerly Professor at the Berlin School of Business and the University of Bamberg (Germany), visiting scholar at the universities of Bologna (Italy), Columbia (USA), Florence (Italy), Helsinki (Finland), Michigan (USA) and Oxford (UK), ERC Grant 2011-2016 on European Regulatory Private Law, Grant Academy of Finland, 2017-2022 on External Dimension of European Private Law, research on European and transnational private law, compulaw, legal theory.