Before joining academia, he was an international lawyer first at Fulbright & Jaworski LLP and then Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. He writes regularly on transnational law and legal theory and currently serves as Managing Editor for a leading reporter of investor-state decisions. A national of Germany and France, he was educated at Tulane University School of Law (New Orleans, LA, USA), the University of York (UK), the University of Oslo (Norway), the University of Warwick (UK), and the United World College of the Adriatic (Duino, Italy).