Patrick Wasilczyk completed his legal studies at the universities of Heidelberg, Aoyama Gakuin (Tokyo, Japan) and Münster, where he obtained his First State Exam. Patrick held a position as research fellow at the Institute for International and Comparative Public Law at the Chair for Public Law, International Law and European Union Law at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany, until he started his legal clerkship at the District Court of Münster in April 2022. Patrick has conducted research for his PhD thesis on the jurisprudence of Dispute Settlement Mechanisms in Preferential Trade Agreements concerning the use of General Exception Clauses.
Patrick has conducted research for his PhD thesis on the jurisprudence of Dispute Settlement Mechanisms in Preferential Trade Agreements, concerning the use of General Exception Clauses, inter alia, at the General Secretariat of the Andean Community as well as the Institute of International Economic Law at the Georgetown University Law Center.