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Markus Schreiber studied law at both the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg and the McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific in Sacramento, California. He completed his studies in 2013, passing the second state examination in law. From 2011 to 2013, he worked as a trainee lawyer at various institutions, including the German Federal Grid Agency, the legal department of a major European energy supplier and the energy department of the Hamburg Ministry of Urban Development and the Environment. From 2013 to 2014, he worked as a lawyer at a Hamburg firm specialising in energy law.

He has been working as an academic assistant since 2014 and a senior teaching and research assistant since 2019 under Prof. Sebastian Heselhaus’s chair of European Law, International Law, Public Law and Comparative Law at the University of Lucerne. His thesis covered how the law deals with technical innovation and was published as volume 136 of the ‘Luzerner Beiträge zur Rechtswissenschaft’ series. His work received the Professor Walther Hug Prize and the Lucerne University Association’s thesis award. From 2019 to 2020, he was an Assistant Professor of Public Law, focusing on energy and climate law.

His postdoctoral project examines the extent to which private ownership can be used to exercise freedom of expression and assembly, with a particular focus on the digital sphere. On 1 March 2025, he was appointed Assistant Professor (with tenure track) of Public Law and Blockchain at the Zug Institute for Blockchain Research at the University of Lucerne (ZIBR).

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