Professor at European University Viadrina

Dr Lowitzsch
holds the Kelso Professorship of Comparative Law, East European Business Law and European Legal Policy at Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). He directs the Inter-University Centre (Viadrina, Freie Universität Berlin, Sveučilište u Splitu and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). His main fields of expertise are employee and consumer financial participation, energy law, privatisation, insolvency law, European Law and legal policy, distributive justice and the renewal of the European welfare state.

Dr. Lowitzsch was born in Germany and besides his mother tongue speaks fluently English, French, Italian, Polish and is proficient in Spanish and Russian. He studied law and Slavonic studies at Freie Universität Berlin and Universytet Jagiellonski Kraków. After the postgraduate judicial service at the Berlin Regional Court of Appeal, he passed the bar exam in 2002. In the same year, he earned his PhD at Freie Universität Berlin.
Dr. Lowitzsch directs the HORIZON 2020 project “SCORE – Supporting Consumer Co-Ownership in Renewable Energies” as coordinator (CSA 2018-2021, see https://www.score-h2020.eu/) He edited the book “Energy Transition – Financing Consumer Ownership in Renewables – 18 country studies and a comparative analysis” published in January 2019 with Palgrave/McMillan; this book advocates Consumer Stock Ownership Plans (CSOPs) investigating their feasibility in all countries under consideration.