• Prospective Students
• Academics
• J.D. application process
• LL.M. Program
  • LL.M. Application Process
  • LL.M. Career Services
  • LL.M. Class of 2012 profile
  • LLM Student Profiles
    • Giorleny Altamirano
    • Kamila Bury
    • Thomas Fetzer
    • Milena Georgieva
    • Hideyuki Matsuo
    • Adriana Guerra Montemayor
    • Deborah Rubbens
    • Mayumi Ikawa Tani
    • Sachindra Upadhyay
    • Chloe Xu
  • Upcoming LL.M. Information Sessions
• Transfer & Visiting Students
• Ph.D. in Law and Economics
• Costs & Financial Assistance
• Joint Degree Programs
• Campus Life
• About the Faculty
• About the School
• J.D. Class of 2014 profile
• J.D. class statistics
• Recent Graduate Employment
• Student Resources
• Visiting VLS

• Apply Now
• Make a Gift

Thomas Fetzer

LL.M. Vanderbilt University
Doctor of Laws, University of Mannheim

After Thomas Fetzer, a DAAD scholar, completed his LL.M. at Vanderbilt in 2003, he returned to Germany to resume his teaching position at the University of Mannheim, where he had previously earned his Doctor of Laws degree. Dr. Fetzer is now a Professor of Law at the TU Dresden Law School, Germany.

Thomas Fetzer specializes in Telecommunications Law, Media Law and Privacy/Data Protection Law. He has published several articles on Taw Law and European Community Law. Moreover, he co-authors books on Internet Law, Telecommunications Law and Public Economic Law. In addition to his position at the TU Dresden he is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Mannheim and Adjunct Professor at the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, PA, USA. He has also taught at the Vanderbilt University Law School, USA, the Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg i.Br., and the Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena.

"For me as a German lawyer Vanderbilt provided a terrific challenge,” Professor Fetzer says. His Vanderbilt dissertation addressed The Taxation of Internet Electric Commerce. “Vanderbilt’s unique LL.M. program and the international atmosphere at the law school contributed more to my legal education than I would have ever expected."

Thomas is an active member of Vanderbilt’s alumni recruiting network. He returned to Vanderbilt in fall 2007 as a guest lecturer in the LL.M. course, Introduction to Legal Research and Writing in the U.S., and he will teach a short course, European Union Competition Law, in October 2008.

He remains in touch with many of his LL.M. classmates. "My year at Vanderbilt really benefited my career as a legal scholar in Germany," Professor Fetzer says, "and I also made friends I'll keep in touch with for the rest of my life."