Degrees

Ph.D. in Law, Ludwig-Maximilians University; LL.M.(Common Law Studies), Georgetown; Second Legal State Examination, Munich Upper Court of Appeals; First Legal State Examination, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Short Bio

Markus G. Puder serves as Associate Professor of Law at the Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans. His teaching and research interests include Comparative, Civil, and Roman Law; Environmental and Energy Law; and Public International Law and the Law of the European Union. He has previously been employed in the Environmental Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory (a U.S. Department of Energy laboratory managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC), while holding lectureships at the Georgetown University Law Center and the George Washington University School of Law. He has taught and spoken at the Bucerius Law School (Hamburg, Germany), Universidade Petrobras (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), and Bogaziçi Üniversitesi (Istanbul, Turkey). Other professional experiences include serving as Congressional Fellow with the U.S. House of Representatives, Law Clerk at the Oberlandesgericht München (Upper Regional Court of Munich, Germany), Assistant Lecturer at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (Munich Law School, Germany), and Researcher in Residence at the University of Cape Town (Republic of South Africa). Puder is a member of the New York State Bar and U.S. Supreme Court Bar. In addition to speaking English, German, French, and Spanish, he has intermediate knowledge of Russian, Arabic, Portuguese, and Italian. In his spare time, he is a concert violinist.

Courses Taught

• International Law