Axel Beater

Prof. Dr. Axel Beater is the Chair of Civil Law, Commercial Law, and Media Law at the Faculty of Law and Economics, University of Greifswald. He has held this position since 1996 and was involved in academic administration, serving as Dean (2008-2010) and Chair of the Self-Regulation Commission in Academia (2012-2020). His research focuses on Tort Law, Competition Law, Media Law, and Intellectual Property, with a particular emphasis on the interplay between civil law frameworks and modern media/competition dynamics.

• Education:
  • Law Studies (1981-1986), University of Mannheim and Göttingen
  • Dr. jur. (1988), University of Göttingen
  • Habilitation (1994), University of Göttingen

His scholarly output includes 20+ PhD dissertations supervised, covering topics from competition law in digital markets to personality rights in media. Notable publications span monographs like Imitation in Competition (1995) and Medienrecht (2007), alongside 300+ legal commentaries and case analyses in Juristenzeitung, Zeitschrift für Medienrecht, and other journals. He has delivered 50+ lectures on topics ranging from social media regulation to EU competition law harmonization.