Achim Puetz

Achim Puetz is a German citizen resident in Spain. He holds a Law and a Masters degree in Transport Law and Administration (2006), as well as a European PhD (Law) from Jaume I-University of Castellon (Spain) in 2008, for which he received te outstanding doctorate award. Bilingual in Spanish and German and with an advanced knowledge of English, French and Italian, he is a senior lecturer of Commercial Law at Jaume I-University since September 2012. He has also lectured as a visiting professor, mostly on transport law, in degree, Masters and PhD studies at other higher education institutions in Spain (Complutense University, Madrid; Catholic University of Valencia) and abroad (Université Catholique de Lille, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala). He is the author of a monograph on rail wagon law (Madrid, 2012) and has published numerous research articles and contributions to collective works, both in transport matters and in other areas of commercial law (company law, antitrust and unfair competition law, insurance and factoring contract, insolvency law). Dr Puetz holds the position of the academic secretary of the Institute for Transport Law (IDT) at Jaume I-University and is the director of its Master in Transport Law. He frequently participates as a speaker in conferences and seminars on transport law and has carried out research stays at renowned institutions in Germany, such as the Max Planck Institutes for Comparative and International Private Law (Hamburg) and for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law (Munich), or Prof. Dr Ingo Koller's chair at Regensburg University; in Switzerland, at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (Lausanne); and in Uruguay, at the University of the Republic (Montevideo).