Tobias Eckardt received his doctorate for a thesis on the electronic “Bolero Bill of Lading under German and English Law” (ISBN-10: 3935808372). Following the second bar exam he took up a career as a practicing lawyer with the law firm Ahlers & Vogel in 2005. Over the next years his focus on international trade and transport strengthened both in the practical and the academic field. Dr. Eckardt delivered numerous speeches at national and international conferences and published various articles and commentaries in his fields of interest.

He is the editor of the law journal „Transportrecht“ (TranspR, ISSN 0174-559X), co-editor of the law journals „Internationales Handelsrecht“ (IHR, ISSN 1617-5395) and “European Journal of Commercial Contract Law“ (EJCCL, ISSN 1877-1467), as well a member of the advisory board of the „Journal of Transnational and Chinese Maritime Law“ (ISSN 2634-4777).

From 2017 to 2022 Dr. Eckardt lectured the courses „Transport Law“ and „International Trade Law“ at the University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer. He was a member of the ICC working group for the drafting of a regulation supplementing rules for the digitalisation of German transport law documents.

After 18 years of working as a lawyer, Dr Eckardt took up a full time teaching professorship at the University of Applied Sciences Bremerhaven with a focus on teaching Bachelor and Master degrees in Transport and Logistics.

Website: https://www.hs-bremerhaven.de/de/service/personenverzeichnis/tobias-eckardt

Selected Publications:

Art. 1, 2, 34-41 CMR
(Title to be announced), Stichting Vervoeradres, expected 2023

§§ 438, 439, 510, 596-619 HGB, §§ 1-52 SvertO
Münchener Kommentar zum Handelsgesetzbuch, Band 7 – Transportrecht, 5. Auflage, Verlag C. H. Beck / Verlag Franz Vahlen, München 2023, ISBN 978-3-406-75847-8

Art. 22-51 CMR
Commercial Law – Article-by-Article Commentary, Ed. Prof. Dr. Peter Mankowski, Verlag C.H. Beck/Nomos/Hart Publishing, München/Baden-Baden/Oxford, 2019

Article 17 CMR and Article 29 CMR
„CMR 60 years – Time for retirement or future proof?”; Dr. Wouter Verheyen (Ed.), Paris Legal Publishers, 2017, ISBN: 9789462511484, p. 39-43 and p. 63-73

Multimodal Transport including Cross-Border Road
Haulage – Will the CMR apply?
(Co-Autor), European Journal of Commercial Contract Law (EJCCL) 2010, p. 153-162