Achim Puetz is full professor at Jaume I-University, Castellin spain. He is a German citizen residing in Spain. He holds a Law and a Master’s degree in Transport Law and Administration (2006), as well as a European PhD (Law) from Jaume I-University of Castellon (Spain) in 2008, for which he received the outstanding doctorate award. Bilingual in Spanish and German and with an advanced knowledge of English, French and Italian, he is an associate professor of Commercial Law at Jaume I-University since September 2018. He has also lectured as a visiting professor, mostly on transport law, in degree, Master’s and PhD studies at other higher education institutions in Spain (Complutense University, Madrid; University of Jaen; University of the Balearic Islands; Carlos III University, Madrid) and abroad (Catholic University of Lille; University of Cagliari; San Carlos University of Guatemala; University of Bologna; Technological University of Honduras).

He is the author of a monograph on rail wagon law (Madrid, 2012) and has co-authored the volume on Spain of the International Encyclopædia of Laws – Transport Law. He has also published numerous research articles and contributions to collective works, both in transport matters and in other areas of commercial law (company law, antitrust and unfair competition law, insurance and factoring contract, insolvency law).

Dr Puetz has been the vicedean of the Degree in Law of the Jaume I-University (2018 to 2022) and currently holds the position of the director of the University Institute for Transport Law (IDT), as well as that of its Master in Transport Law. He frequently participates as a speaker in conferences and seminars on transport law and has carried out research stays at renowned institutions in Germany, such as the Max Planck Institutes for Comparative and International Private Law (Hamburg) and for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law (Munich), or Prof. Dr Ingo Koller’s chair at Regensburg University; in Switzerland, at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (Lausanne); in Italy (University of Bologna); and in Uruguay, at the University of the Republic (Montevideo).