Curriculum Vitae

Professional Experience

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer I 1990 – 2021

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (Parnter from 1997)
Office Managing Partner Köln Office
Head of IP/IT
Head of Media Sub-Sector
Chairman Information Security Committe

Education

Articles District Court Cologne I 1989-1991

Foreign Associate Wilmer Cutler & Pickering (London, Washington D.C.) I 1988

University of Wisconsin, Madison, LL.M. I 1987-1988

Law school at Universities of Saarbrücken and Bonn I 1982-1986

Publications

2023

Commentary on secs. 7, 7c, 7,d, 44b German Nuclear Act; Art. 58-69 EU Cyber Security Act

Kipker/Reusch/Ritter, Information Security Law, Commentary, 2023

Co-author: Philipp Roos

2021

New consumer contract law requirements for IT security of digital products

International Cybersecurity Law Rev. 2, 147–159 (2021).

https://doi.org/10.1365/s43439-021-00023-w

Co-author: Hendrik Witt

2020

Virtual general meetings require a high level of data protection

16.05.2020 – Börsenzeitung

Co-author: Florian Klein

Critical infrasturcutres

Kipker (editor), Cyber security handbook

Co-authors: Theresa Ehlen, Maike Cecilia Fromageau

2018

Equal prices for EU citizens

05.09.2018 – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ)

Internet dealers face fines as a consequence of the Geoblocking Regulation

Co-author: Philipp Roos

2017

Who is liable for risks in the Internet of Things?

23.09.2017 – Börsenzeitung

The interconnection between devices, production areas and complete enterprises in the Internet of Things creates new opportunities but at the same time new risks

Co-author: Moritz Becker

Data Ownership – to whom belongs the new gold?

04/2017 – markenartikel

Large data quantities and big Data applications are gaining commercial relevance. Substantion investments are made into data gathering in order to improve, for example, targeted advertising. In this context the question to whom the data belong becomes more and more relevant.

There is no alternative to a clear contractual agreement on the use rights for data.

2015

The submission of TV shows

01/2015 – tv diskurs 2015, p. 310 f.

In a judgemet of 7 May 20215 the Higher Administrative court in Hessia ruled for the first time on the question when TV show are to be deemed “submissible” in the meaning of the State Treaty on the Protection of Minors. At the same time, this is a judgement on the basic principles of the relation between public supervision and the institution of voluntary self-control in questions regarding the protection of minors.

Co-author: Nima Mafi-Gudarzi

2014

Plans for the regulation of cybersecurity also affect the financial sector

05.05.2014 – Börsenzeitung

2013

Cybersecurity – national and international regulatory initiatives

04/2013 – Multimedia und Recht (MMR), 2013, p. 362 ff.

The consequences of planned regulations of the IT compliance in enterprises and liability principles in case of compliance violations.

Co-author: Julia Utzerath

The submission of TV shows to institutions of voluntary self-control

Engel/Holzer/Ory (Hrsg.) Evolution der Medien – Das Ringen um Kontinuität, Festschrift zu Ehren von Professor Wolfgang Thaenert, p. 69 ff.

2006

Non-performing loans: data protection aspects of the disposal of risk-bearing loans

Die Aktiengesellschaft (AG) 2006, p. 277 ff.

Co-authors: Stephan Stock, Philipp Räther

1999

Media laws – Broadcasting, media service and tele services

Commentary on the State Broadcasting Treaty, the Tele Services Act and the Tele Services Data Protection Act

Co-authors: Ludwig Leyendecker, Oliver von Rosenberg

1998

Harmonization of the legal protection of encrypted pay TV services against piracy

Computer und Recht (CR) 1998, p. 101 ff.

Co-authors: Stephan Engels

1996

Capacity shortage and program plurality

Zeitschrift für Urheber- und Medienrecht (ZUM) 1996, p. 643 ff.

Co-author: Oliver von Rosenberg

1990

The influence of europan law develpments on the relationship between federal and state government in the are of broadcasting

Legal expertise provided to the the Minister of Post and Telecommuncation

Co-authors: Dieter Dörr, Jochen Eisenbeis, Eberhard Jost

United States Punitive Damage Awards in German Courts: The Evolving German Position on Service and Enforcement

23 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 967 (1990)

Mitautor: John B. Sandage

1989

The financing of public broadcasting on the test bench

Archiv für Presserecht (AfP) 1989, p. 708 ff.

Co-author: Klaus Hümmerich

1987

No anthem without a law – On the constitutional requirements of introducing the national anthem as a symbol

12/1987 – Neue Juristische Wochenschrift 1987, p. 3227 ff.

Co-author: Klaus Hümmerich

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