Professor Peter-Christian Müller-Graff holds the Chair for Economic Law and European Law at the Heidelberg University Law Faculty and is Director of the Heidelberg University Institute for German and European Corporate and Economic Law. His main research interests comprise the legal order of the economy, European internal market law, the law of the European Union and of other European international organisations and private law. He has published and edited many books on these subjects and is editor of the ten-volume Encyclopedia on European Law. Professor Müller-Graff is counsellor to national, international and foreign public authorities and has represented the Federal Republic of Germany before the European Court of Justice. He has been judge at the Court of Appeals. He pursued his studies at the universities of Göttingen, Berlin (FU), Tübingen and Cornell, N.Y. (USA), passed the legal state exams in Baden-Württemberg and earned his doctorate (Dr.iur.) and habilitation (Dr.iur.habil.) at Tübingen University. Prior to his appointment at Heidelberg in 1994 he was professor of law at the universities of Köln (Cologne) and Trier. Professor Müller-Graff has accepted several visiting professorships in other European countries (in particular in France, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Poland and Hungary), in North and South America (Cornell, Georgetown, Porto Alegre) and in Japan (Nihon)