Attorney Prof. Dr. Hocks has been active in the field of asylum and residence law for many years. He is a specialist lawyer for migration law. In addition to his legal practice, he teaches asylum law to students at the University of Giessen as a lecturer and supervises them in the student legal counseling program for refugees as part of the Refugee Law Clinic Giessen (www.refugeelawclinic.de). He also regularly conducts training sessions for lawyers and others who, in a professional or volunteer capacity, deal with questions of residence or refugee law. Topics of such training include: asylum law updates, unaccompanied minors in residence law, studying and research in Germany, skilled worker migration under the new Skilled Immigration Act, “change of track” and rights to remain.

Attorney Dr. Hocks also publishes on these topics in journals and handbooks. Most recently, he contributed to the 3rd edition of the Nomos Commentary on Immigration Law and published a guide for advising refugees.

Prof. Dr. Hocks studied law and, in his undergraduate studies, philosophy in Munich, Freiburg i. Br., and Frankfurt am Main. He was a doctoral candidate at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (now Legal History and Legal Theory) in Frankfurt am Main and has worked as a lawyer at a German-British law firm in Frankfurt, and at times in London and Munich.