Dr. Judith Gessner, LL.M.
(New Orleans)
ATTORNEY (GERMANY)
+49 (0) 40 32 55 77 – 0
gessner@alp.de
Correspondence languages:
Primary legal fields:
- Employment law (specialist lawyer)
- Commercial and business law
- Arbitration law
- Sports law
Education:
Born in Hamburg in 1969. Studied Law in Hamburg and Geneva. First state examination in law at the University of Hamburg, 1994. Legal clerkship in Hamburg, Brussels and Paris. Master of Laws (LL.M.) in New Orleans, USA. Second state examination in law in Hamburg in 1997. Doctorate in International Arbitration Law at the Max Planck Institute for Private International Law in Hamburg in 2001.
Professional career:
Called to the bar in 1997. Initially worked as a lawyer specialising in employment law (Gessner Rechtsanwälte). Specialist in employment law since 2002. Self-employed from 2004 onwards and joined A | L | P in 2016.
Arbitrator at the ICC (International Chamber of Commerce), the DIS (German Institution of Arbitration), the International Vienna Moot Court and the German Court of Arbitration for Sport, among others.
Lecturer at the Institut Universitaire de Metz and the University of Applied Sciences. Regularly has articles published in the Zeitschrift für öffentliches Arbeitsrecht (öAT).