Return as junior professor

In October 2007, Veronica Hoch-Loy came to the University of Bayreuth for the first time after graduating from high school in Lower Saxony and studied law with additional training in economics. After her first state examination, she completed her legal clerkship at the Bamberg Higher Regional Court. Her second state examination was followed by a period as a lawyer at an international commercial law firm in Munich, where Hoch-Loy gained practical insights into the legal fields before her doctorate. She completed her doctorate from 2016 to 2018 under Prof. Dr. Karl-Georg Loritz at the University of Bayreuth, where she worked as a research assistant. She then moved to the Ruhr University Bochum for a postdoctoral position. Most recently, she was Junior Professor of Civil Law and Commercial Law at Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg. On 1 June 2024, she will take over the junior professorship for Civil Law, Intellectual Property Law and Digitalization Law at the University of Bayreuth.

Hoch-Loy made a very conscious decision to study at the University of Bayreuth. She is now looking forward to returning. “The University of Bayreuth offers an excellent research environment, especially for people in the qualification phase,” says Hoch-Loy. With the junior professorship, she wants to build on her digitization-related research in the future and continue it, for example in collaboration with Bayreuth LawTech. The focus here will be particularly on the area of intellectual property law, which is traditionally strongly represented at the University of Bayreuth and the subject of many current digitalization-related research questions. Due to its commercial law profile, Hoch-Loy is aiming for interdisciplinary projects at the RW Faculty.

“In terms of teaching, I am looking forward to working with the Bayreuth students, who I have found to be very motivated and committed. I will primarily be supporting the faculty in the field of intellectual property and will also be holding a number of digitization-related events,” says Hoch-Loy. The first research projects are already planned, including some related to sustainability. “I would also like to pursue a matter close to my heart: My habilitation project, which is in civil law, intellectual property law and also in the field of digitalization,” says Hoch-Loy.