Marko Schauwecker became a TTLF Fellow in fall 2007. His research work is also connected to The Europe Center at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Marko Schauwecker studied law and political science in Germany, France, Spain, and the U.S. He holds graduate degrees from the Free University Berlin and the University Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne, obtained a PhD from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, and an LLM from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (BerkeleyLaw). Marko Schauwecker spent two years as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich, where he served as a member of the "European Max Planck Group for Conflict of Laws in Intellectual Property (CLIP)". In 2009, he joined the Patent Law Directorate of the European Patent Office in Munich as a lawyer. His research focuses on patent law and conflict of laws.