A warm 

"Welcome"

to my website

www.mediationswissenschaftler.com!


This is an introduction to myself and my background as a researcher in the field of mediation.

I'm a lawyer, mediator, lecturer and scientist from Germany.

I have been involved with the topic of mediation since 2012. In total, I was able to complete around 530 hours of training as a mediator, business mediator and mediation supervisor, including a course at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.

Since 2015, I have been teaching mediation at various universities in Germany and abroad. In the meantime, I also regularly publish on mediation law, but also on German works constitution law and anti-money laundering law. In 2024, I was able to obtain the Higher Education Teaching Certificate from the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University.

My dream is to work at least once in my life as a lecturer for mediation at universities in as many countries in the world as possible.

My lectures

Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel

Since 2018, I am working at “my” university in Kiel as a “Lecturer in Business Mediation & Negotiation”. It's great to be back here!

Helmut-Schmidt-University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg

Since 2016, I am allowed to take on a special challenge at the HSU/UniBw HH as a “Lecturer for Mediation” and teach soldiers about the topic of “Mediation” in a lecture lasting 48 hours - and now every trimester!

Philipps-University Marburg

Since 2015, I am active here as a “Lecturer for Mediation” and am allowed to offer my key qualification lecture “Mediation” at least once (sometimes even two or three times) every semester. My first university teaching assignment - always something special! :-)

Lectures in foreign countries

Since 2015, I have also been trying to “think outside the box” and accept teaching assignments at international universities. I have already been able to teach mediation at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Switzerland, at the China-EU School of Law at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing/ China and at the St. Petersburg State University in Russia.

My publications

(in German, unless otherwise stated)

Monographs

  • Medical care centres in the area of conflict between company law, medical professional law and constitutional law

       Hamburg 2011, ISBN: 978-3-8300-5702-4
       https://www.verlagdrkovac.de/978-3-8300-5702-4.htm

  • The mediator - liberal profession or trade?

       Hamburg 2020, ISBN: 978-3-7519-1915-9
       https://www.bol.de/shop/home/artikeldetails/A1058147871

  • The Two-Class Society of Mediation - On the Tension between mediation law and the law governing the legal profession

       planned for 2026

Editorships

  • Bauckmann/Horn/Sonntag - Works Constitution Act (BetrVG) (Commentary)

       together with PräsArbG Dr Esko Horn and RAin Julika Sonntag
       Status: in progress until 30 September 2025, publication planned for spring 2026

  • Bauckmann - Work aids for works councils: Mediation

       Status: handed in, final publication planned for spring 2025

Commentaries



  • Weyland, Federal Lawyers' Act: BRAO

       11th edition, 2023
       ISBN: 978-3-8006-6838-0
       edited standards:
       - BRAO: §§ 1, 2, 3, 4, 43, 43a, 43b, 59 and 59a
       - BORA: §§ 1, 7a, 18, 20 and 26
       - MediationsG: §§ 1-9 (complete)
       - ZMediatAusbV: §§ 1-8 (complete)
       - GWG: Introduction, §§ 1, 2, 8, 17, 18, 19, 20, 20a, 21, 27, 28, 30, 43
       Can be found under the following link: https://www.beck-shop.de/weyland-bundesrechtsanwaltsordnung-brao/product/33484752

Bauckmann/Horn/Sonntag - Works Constitution Act (BetrVG)
        1st edition, planned for 2026
        edited standards:
        - BertVG: Sections 5, 7, 8, 13, 15, 80 para. 1 no. 1, 2a and 2b, 80 para. 2, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 86a, 87 para. 1 introductory sentence, 87 para. 1 no. 1, 4 and 13, 88, 89, 96, 97, 98, 105
        - WO: §§ 5, 32

Book contributions



  • Lawyers' professional law and Mediation

       in: Kracht/Niedostadek/Sensburg (editors) - Practical Handbook on Professional Mediation
       Page 155-164 (published 2023)
       available online and details at:
       Link: Springer Verlag

Specialist articles



  • The system of participation and co-determination of the BetrVG

      in: Betriebsrat und Recht (BRuR), Issue _/2025; Page ___

  • BetrVG: For the good of the employees and the company!

       The principle of trusting cooperation as a conflict management task 

       in: Zeitschrift für Arbeitsrecht in Unternehmen (ZAU) 2024, Issue 10, p. 599-602

  • Mediation - a case for the Anti-Money Laundering Act?

       in: Zeitschrift für Konfliktmanagement (ZKM) 2024, Issue 5, p. 178-179

  • MedArb - are hybrid ADR proceedings permissible under professional law?

       in: Anwaltsblatt 2023, issue 08/09, page 477-480

  • Defining Mediation English)

       in: The Mediation - Edition I (2023), page 65

  • Do we need a reform of the Mediation Act?

       in: Die Mediation, Issue Quarter II/2022, page 69-71


  • Mediator - a liberal profession capable of jointly working together with lawyers? (BRAO reform 2022 creates new opportunities for interprofessional cooperation)

       in: Anwaltsblatt 2021, issue 11, page 607 / Anwaltsblatt online 2021, page 292-296

  • Strengthening mediation through a chamber of mediators

       together with Claudia Kück, LL.B.
       in:  Zeitschrift für Konfliktmanagement (ZKM) 2021, issue 5, page 193-197


  • Mediation as a management task in the context of occupational health and safety?

       together with Prof Dr Gudrun Faller, Bochum University of Applied Sciences for Health
       in: Arbeit und Arbeitsrecht (AuA) 2021, issue 8, page 22-27

  • Beautiful free world of mediators (or: Is there a mediator law?)

       in: Die Mediation, issue quarter II/2021, page 65-67

  • The mediator - the unknown being?

       in: Marburg Law Review 2020 (issue 1), page 5-11


  • Risks for the non-profit status when founding medical care centres

       in: npoR 2010, page 10-11 (Journal for the law of non-profit organisations)

Judgement notes



  • ECJ strengthens duty of confidentiality for (legal) professionals

      Judgement note on ECJ, judgement of 29.07.2024, ref. 623/22
      in: Comply Magazine for Compliance, issue 01/2025, pp. 32-34


  • Quo vadis mediator? - Comment on the judgement of the AGH Celle of 22 May 2017, Ref. AGH 16/16 (I 9)

       in: FamRB blog of the Otto Schmidt publishing house on 07 August 2017

Reviews



  • Michael Martinek, Peter Rawert and Birgit Weitemeyer (editors)

       Commemorative publication for Dieter
       Reuter on his 70th birthday on 16 October
       2010
       in: ZStV 2011, pp. 191-193

  • Ingo Saenger, Walter Bayer, Elisabeth Koch and Torsten Körber (editors)

       Gründen und Stiften - Commemorative
       publication on the 70th birthday of the Jena
       founding dean and foundation law expert
       Olaf Werner
       in: npoR 2010, p. 30