EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- 2024Co-Founder, law firm ARTANA
- 2017 – 2026General Counsel, Valve GmbH
- 2013 – 2016General Counsel, Valve SARL
- 2011 – 2012Partner, law firm Fechner Ewert
- 2004 – 2011Attorney-at-law and Associate Partner law firm Unverzagt von Have
- 2008PhD thesis
- 1996 – 2001Studies of law at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
LECTURES AND PUBLICATIONS
- LECTURES03.06.2026Games Industry Law Summit XI, Berlin | Sealing the Leaks – Crisis Management in the Games Industry
- 03.09.2025Games Industry Law Summit X, Vilnius | Red Lines, Black Lists: Issues of Culture & Sovereignty in Games
- 05.09.2024Games Industry Law Summit IX, Vilnius | Risk Assessment in Content & Operations
- 19.04.2024Games Industry Law Summit On Tour II, Limassol | Beyond the Echo Chamber
- 18.04.2024Games Industry Law Summit On Tour II, Limassol | Protection of Minors
- 08.09.2022Games Industry Law Summit VII, Vilnius | Artificial Intelligence
- 08.09.2022Games Industry Law Summit VII, Vilnius | Dealing with Abuse by Users
- 08.09.2022Games Industry Law Summit VII, Vilnius | User-Generated Content
- 16.09.2021Games Industry Law Summit VI, Vilnius | Legal Tools Used In-House and at Law Firms
- 02.05.2019Games Industry Law Summit V, Vilnius | Copyright in the DSM Directive
- 03.05.2018Games Industry Law Summit IV, Vilnius | User-Generated Content
- PUBLICATIONS2026§§ 26, 27 Digital Items – Consumer Protection / Digital Items – Intellectual Property (with Prof. Dr. Christian Rauda and Isabel Davies), in: Hentsch/Rodenhausen/MacGreevy, EU Video Games Law – A Handbook, Nomos 2026
- 2022Legal issues with virtual objects, in: Hentsch/Falk, Games and Law
- 2008Criminal copyright law in the information society
- 2006Title protection - an underestimated right, in: Poser/Röckrath, Culture & Law
LITTLE KNOWN FACTS
- Passionately collects useless knowledge
- Has an extremely guilty conscience about all the unread books he bought in his life
- Once forged a Damascus knife