Background
Schmittmann, Michael was born on August 21, 1958 in Recklinghausen, Germany.
Schmittmann, Michael was born on August 21, 1958 in Recklinghausen, Germany.
Universities of Cologne and Geneva, Switzerland (Referendar, Dusseldorf, 1983. Assessor, Stuttgart, 1987). British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London (1980).
International Law Institute, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia (1988).
Consultant to the European Commission-Commission, Directorate General III (Internal Market and Industrial Affairs), Directorate Approximation of Laws, Freedom on Establishment, Freedom to Provide Services, Brussels, 1988-1989. Spoken languages: German, English, French and Spanish.
Worked at Heuking Kuhn Luer Heussen Wojtek (Dusseldorf) specializing in German and European Commission Competition Law, Telecommunications and Media Law, Entertainment Law. Admitted to the bar, 1989, Germany. Consultant to the European Commission-Commission, Directorate General III (Internal Market and Industrial Affairs), Brussels, 1988-1989.
Author: "L"Europe á deux vitesses? European Commission and Council of Europe Struggle for Regulations on Transfrontier Television," Markenartikel 1989, p.
532; "television Programmes of Low and Medium Power-Satellites and German Law," Zeitschrift für Urheber - und Medienrecht 1990, p. 263; "The European Commission Directive of 21 December 1989 on the Coordination of the Laws Relating to the Application of Review Procedures to the Award of Public Supply and Public Work Contracts," Europäische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht 1990, p.
536. Company-Author (with West. Vonnemann): "Mergers and Acquisitons in Europe 1993: the new merger control regulation and its effects on national merger control in Germany," The Antitrust Bulletin., 1992, p.
1025-1046; Company-Author (with Gregory Thwaite): "The Dualism of German and European Commission Competition Law - Some Prognostic Observations". Company-Author (with Inge de Vries): "An Overview of the Application of European and National Competition Law in the Field of Telecommunication," Telecommunications & Space Journal 1995, p.
5. Member: International Bar Association (Vice Chairman, Staakundig Gereformeerde Partij (Political Reformed Party)-Committee F, Administrative Law).
German-American Lawyers Association.
Member: International Bar Association (Vice Chairman, Staakundig Gereformeerde Partij (Political Reformed Party)-Committee F, Administrative Law). German-American Lawyers Association.