Rate My Professor Maik Wolf

Prof. Dr. Maik Wolf holds the Chair of German and European Civil and Commercial Law in the Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences at the University of Erfurt since October 2021. He studied law at the Free University of Berlin, completed his legal clerkship at the Berlin Court of Appeal, earned his doctorate there in 2009 with a dissertation titled 'Effizienzen und Europäische Zusammenschlusskontrolle' on efficiencies in European merger control, and obtained his habilitation in 2020. His academic career includes serving as a research assistant at the Institute for German and European Economic, Competition and Regulatory Law at the Free University of Berlin from 2004 to 2012, Junior Professor for Civil Law and Intellectual Property Law at the same university from 2012 to 2021, and Deputy Chair of Civil Law, Antitrust, Energy and Labour Law at TU Dresden from 2017 to 2021.

Wolf's research centers on antitrust, competition and regulatory law, emphasizing digitalization of markets, artificial intelligence, interfaces with intellectual property law, and law and sustainability. He is co-editor of the Munich Commentary on Competition Law, Volume 2 (from the 5th edition), and section editor for Beck-OGK Energy Law, Energy Competition Law (1st edition 2025/26). Key monographs include 'Kartellrecht in Fällen' (2010, with Franz Jürgen Säcker), 'UWG und Markenrecht in Fällen' (2009), and 'Integrierte Energieversorgung in geschlossenen Verteilernetzen' (2009). In the Munich Commentary on European and German Competition Law (latest editions 2022-2023), he authors commentaries on Art. 101 TFEU, sections of the German Competition Act (GWB), and state aid law. Recent publications feature 'Krisenkartellrecht' (WuW 2025), 'Zur kartellrechtlichen Bewertung der 50+1-Regel' (WuW 2025), and 'Disaggregierter Zugang zu Googles Suchindex als Essential Facility' (NZKart 2025). He contributes to handbooks such as the Berlin Commentary on Energy Law (4th ed. 2019) and serves in university committees including chairperson of the Bachelor's Examination Committee and the Commission for Research Integrity and Good Scientific Practice.