• Labour Law Working Group of DeutschenAnwaltVerein (DAV)
• European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA)
• Specialized lawyer-labour law forum (ffa)
• Expert Committe on Labour Law II of the Munich Bar Association

Books:

Munich lawyers’ labour law handbook
Dr Christopher Melms
ed. Wilhelm Moll, Verlag C.H. Beck, 4nd volume 2017

Essays/Articles:

Creative Solutions for Demanding Clients
Dr Christopher Melms (Interview)
Personalmagazin spezial, 4/2017, p. 17 et seq.

The Company-Related Industry-Wide Collective Agreement - Nothing but Risks?
Dr Christopher Melms
in: Neue Zeitschrift für Arbeitsrecht (NZA), 06/2017, p. 365 et seq.

Creative Solutions for Demanding Clients
Dr Christopher Melms (Interview)
Personalmagazin spezial, 4/2016, p. 27

Creative solutions for quality-oriented clients
Dr Christopher Melms (interview)
Personalmagazin spezial, 4/2015, p. 25

The Modification of the Principle of Most Favourable Stipulation (Günstigkeitsprinzip)
Dr Christopher Melms and Dr. Kathrin Kentner
Neue Zeitschrift für Arbeitsrecht, 3/2014, 127 et seq.

Strikes in Ecclesiastical Institutions May Be Permissible, but Only if Churches Do Nothing
Dr Christopher Melms and Dr. Christian Wiegelmann
Der Betrieb, 50/2013, M1

The Churches and Labour Law: The So-Called Third Way without Strikes?
Dr Christopher Melms and Dr. Christian Wiegelmann
Der Betrieb, 44/2013, 2504

HR Strategies 2013
Dr Christopher Melms
Interview in Neue Juristische Wochenschrift, issue 3/2013 (job section)

The End of the Relative Duty to Maintain Industrial Peace – Industrial Action, Always and Everywhere?
Dr Christopher Melms and Dr. Sarah Achilles
Neue Zeitschrift für Arbeitsrecht, 1033 et seq.

Not everything is lost - When is the Employer's Christmas bonus still voluntary
Dr Christopher Melms
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 10.09.2008

The Pension Missed after Early-Retirement Part-Time Arrangement
Dr Christopher Melms and Susanne Schwarz LL.M.
Der Betrieb, 09.2006, No. 37

Overview on Case Law on the German Law on Notification of Conditions Governing an Employment Relationship [Nachweisgesetz]
Dr Christopher Melms
Recht der Arbeit 3/2006

The Collective Agreement for the Public Service incurs more costs
Dr Christopher Melms
Personalmagazin, 2/2006

Cutting union wages by establishing companies under the temporary employment act as an alternative?
Dr Christopher Melms
Betriebsberater 2004

Stock options offered by third parties, e.g. parent companies: Remuneration by third parties
Dr Christopher Melms
Betriebsberater 2003

Must employers pay double?
Dr Christopher Melms
Fachanwalt Arbeitsrecht 2003

Change of pay scale and ver.di
Dr Christopher Melms
Neue Zeitschrift für Arbeitsrecht 2002

A not-so-collective approach
Dr Christopher Melms
Employment Law Journal March 2002

Works council's entitlement to injunctive relief (2002)
Dr Christopher Melms

Tax Optimisation of Severance Payments
Dr Christopher Melms
Fachanwalt Arbeitsrecht 8/2001

Forfeiture clauses in stock-option schemes
Dr. Christopher Melms
Der Betrieb, 11.08.2000, 32/2000

Collective pay scales at the crossroads
Dr Christopher Melms
Der Betrieb, 03.09.1999, 35/1999

Protection against unfair dismissal and social selection
Dr Christopher Melms
Juristische Arbeitsblätter, 4/1999