Prof. Dr. Christian Rauda

1. 2024Founder, law firm ARTANA
2. 2008 – 2024Partner, GRAEF Rechtsanwälte
3. 2007 – 2008Attorney-at-law, Unverzagt von Have
4. 2004 – 2006Solopractioner in the field of trademark and media law
5. 1999 – 2004Work experience abroad in law firms specialized in trademark, copyright an unfair competition law in New York, Geneva und Chicago
6. 1999 – 2003Freelancer in the trademark and copyright practice group, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, Frankfurt/Main
7. 1996 – 2001Studies of law in Mainz, Geneva and Lausanne with a scholarship of German Academic Scholarship Foundation (oldest German sponsorship organisation for the academically gifted, promoting future excellence)

Christian Rauda is recognized by Handelsblatt and Best Lawyers as one of Germany's best lawyers.

1. 2016 – 2024Member of the Board of Trustees for the award of the Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser Memorial Ring
2. 1996 – 2005Numerous successes in debating competitions, including National winner of the "English Public Speaking Competition" (supported by the Financial Times and FAZ), "Outstanding speaker" at the "Model WTO 1999" simulation, St. Gallen and Geneva, German champion and two-time German runner-up in the tournament organized by the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT, Baden-Württemberg champion and Double winner of the "Kleiner Cicero" as "Best Speaker" and "Best Team"
3. 1996 – 2002Scholarship awarded by German National Academic Foundation

1. since 2021Honorary Professor for Computer Games Law and Entrepreneurship in the Games Industry at HTW University of Applied Sciences, Berlin
2. 2013 – 2023Lecturer for Legal Rhetoric at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg
3. 2012 – 2021Lecturer for Computer Games Law at HTW University of Applied Sciences, Berlin
4. 2009 – 2013Lecturer at University of Hamburg in the media law exam course
5. 2008 – 2019Lecturer for civil law and competition law at Hamburg Media School
6. 2006 – 2019Lecturer in legal rhetoric and communication at the Faculty of Law and Economics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

1. LECTURES10.06.2026Global Games Forum, Hamburg | Copycats & Cross-border Challenges Update: Litigating Imitation in Mobile Gaming
2. 06.05.2026Bucerius Law School, Hamburg | Gründerkompass Recht: IP/IT/media law/data protection
3. 24.04.2026Advanced training for specialist lawyers, Hamburg | Current developments and decisions relating to video games
4. 21.04.2026game Association, Berlin | Update on the Court of Justice of the European Union's pastiche decision
5. 17.04.2026game Association, Berlin | Changes to AI and data protection through the Digital Omnibus (Art. 4a AI Act)
6. 26.03.2026Hamburg Media School, Hamburg | AI Camp: AI and Law
7. 17.03.2026game Association, Berlin | Trademark and title law
8. 06.02.2026Advanced training for specialist lawyers, Hamburg | Recent court decisions on trademark law and competition law
9. 04.02.2026Press Start, Berlin | Workshop on publishing contracts
10. 20.01.2026AGEM German Bar Association | Computer Game Law – Current Legal Issues and Decisions
11. 27.11.2025AIM Leaders, Hamburg | Update AI law
12. 11.11.2025Games Lift, Hamburg | Legal Clinic (legal basics of founding a company & media law) 25.–26.09.2025 World Games Law Summit, Berlin | Navigating the Legal Landscape of Cutting-Edge Gaming Technologies World Games Law Summit, Berlin | Copycats and Cross-Border Challenges – Fighting Imitation in (Mobile) Gaming
13. 03.09.2025Games Law Summit Vilnius | AI Best practices for developers and publishers Games Law Summit Vilnius | Costs and effects of preliminary injunctions in various territories
14. 19.06.2025Tempowerk, Hamburg | CEO legal update
15. 11.06.2025Gamesforum, Hamburg | Roundtable "Copycats and Cross-Border Litigation" Gamesforum, Hamburg | Panel "Implications of Apple vs. Epic" Gamesforum, Hamburg | Roundtable "State of AI in the mobile app industry"
16. 18.05.2025Digital Dragons Conference, Krakow | Country Update: Germany Digital Dragons Conference, Krakow | Navigating AI Frontiers in Creative Industries
17. 13.05.2025Bucerius Law School, Hamburg | Product placement in computer games
18. 28.04.2025Press Start | Legal basics for founders
19. 11.04.2025Baltic Games Fest | AI and Law
20. 09.04.2025Media Lift, Hamburg | Legal Clinic (legal basics of founding a company & media law)
21. 02.04.2024Games Law Summit on tour, Rome | Deceptively obvious – cases on contract law
22. 25.03.2024game Association, Berlin | Update on copyright and competition law protection of computer games
23. 06.03.2024game Association, Berlin | Webinar on the Federal Supreme Court trademark decision on "VW Bulli"
24. 2004 – 2024Over 200 lectures in Germany and abroad in German and English on intellectual property law, media law, IT law and legal rhetoric.
25. PUBLICATIONSSince 1999Author of 20 legal textbooks and books (over 100,000 copies sold in total).
26. Since 2000Author of over 50 journal publications (including GRUR, ZEuP, MMR, EWiR, ZLR, HORIZONT, Markenartikel, gamesmarkt, making games) and book contributions on intellectual property law, competition law, media law, IT law and computer games law.