Dr Christian Rabe
Areas of practice
Dr Christian Rabe is a lawyer and certified specialist in IT law.
A key focus of his practice lies in traditional IT law (including the drafting and negotiation of IT contracts, the negotiation of software licence agreements with major software manufacturers, and IT project work).
Another main focus of Christian Rabe’s work is advising on data protection law, in particular assessing the permissibility of future data processing activities as well as examining and evaluating internal data protection structures at group or company level. Additional areas of expertise include e-commerce law, copyright and competition law, as well as defamation and press law.
Christian Rabe is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E) and publishes regularly on data protection issues.
For many years, Volkswagen Financial Services AG has placed its trust in his solution-oriented, practical advice on all data protection matters arising in the financial services sector.
Vita
Dr Christian Rabe studied law with a focus on information and communication at the Universities of Hamburg (Germany) and Alicante (Spain) from 2004 to 2010. He received his doctorate from the University of Hamburg for a thesis on a topic regarding the right to publicly express one’s opinions. Christian Rabe was admitted to the German Bar in 2015, joined Luther in 2016 and has been a certified specialist in IT law since 2024. Christian Rabe is a member of Luther’s IT Law/Data Protection Law practice group.
Publications
- Germany: Consent Management Ordinance – what it means for cookie banners, in: DataGuidance vom 13.09.2024 (gemeinsam mit Dr. Christoph Werkmeister)
- Zu den Voraussetzungen für den Ersatz des immateriellen Schadens gem. Art. 82 DSGVO nach einem Hackerangriff
- Bearbeitung des Kapitels "Datenschutz in der Privatklinik", in: Leitfaden für die Gründung von Privatkliniken, herausgegeben vom Landesverband der Pirivatkliniken in Hessen e.V., 2023 (gemeinsam mit Dr. Kay Oelschlägel)
- Generalanwalt: Voraussetzungen des Ersatzes immaterieller Schäden nach Art. 82 DSGVO
- Germany: New Ordinance on automated and autonomous vehicles, in: Data Protection Leader, Volume 4, Issue 2/2022
- Zur Begrenzung des sachlichen Anwendungsbereiches der DSGVO
- Vorsicht Datenfalle
Blog posts
- Abdicability of TOMs - Note by HamBfDI of 18 February 2021
- Following the “Schrems II” decision of the European Court of Justice: on the permissibility of international data transfers
- ECJ overturns EU-U.S. privacy shield: regulatory authorities and companies comment on the ruling (overview)
- Data protection in times of the COVID-19 crisis
Memberships
- IAPP
- Hamburger Datenschutz Gesellschaft e.V.
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Recht und Informatik e.V. (DGRI)
Counsel
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István Fancsik, LL.M. (London)
Senior Associate
Essen
Lutz Keller
Senior Associate
Cologne
Dominik Menhaj
Senior Associate
Hamburg
Franziska Neugebauer
Senior Associate
Cologne
Dr Katharina Preuss
Senior Associate
Cologne
Tobias Schneider
Senior Associate
Cologne
Anton Spinty
Senior Associate
Berlin
Pierre Daniel Wittmann
Senior Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Paula Dresler
Associate
Berlin
Manuel Rueß
Associate
Hamburg
Leif Dustin Schneider
Counsel
Ho Chi Minh City
Marc Theiner
Associate
Singapore
Lida Karra
Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Prof. Dr Johannes Beermann
Of Counsel
Berlin
Dr.iur. Andreas Knaul, LL.M. diap (ENA)
Berlin
Jonny H. Giessel
Senior Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Felix Hielscher
Senior Associate
Stuttgart
Dr Aline Mück
Senior Associate
Cologne
Stefanie Kandzia, LL.M.
Senior Associate
Hamburg
Clara von Wolffersdorff
Associate
Leipzig
Laura Hoffmann, LL.M. (Dresden/London)
Senior Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Anne-Sophie Fischer
Associate
Munich
Dr Maximilian Kressner, M.Jur. (Oxford)
Partner
Singapore
Dr Clara Schulze Velmede
Associate
Leipzig
Dr Denis Schütz
Senior Associate
Essen
Robert Schindler
Counsel
Essen
Jenny Schindler
Senior Associate
Munich
Steffen Häberer
Partner
Leipzig
Dr Rolf Kobabe
Partner
Hamburg
Dr Astrid Schnabel, LL.M. (Emory)
Partner
Hamburg
Alisa Schöneberg
Associate
Cologne
Iris López Martínez, LL.M.
Senior Associate
Berlin
Dr Melanie Verstege
Counsel
Essen
Alina Moers
Associate
Cologne
Anna-Laura Martens
Associate
Berlin
Franziska Maier, LL.M. (UCLA)
Associate
Stuttgart
Dr Thomas Schwieters
Associate
Hanover
Sabrina Aurnhammer
Associate
Munich
Dr Helmut Janssen, LL.M. (King's College London)
Partner
Brussels, Dusseldorf
Anja Schwarz, LL.M. (London)
Senior Associate
Cologne
Eric Doyé
Associate
Leipzig
Dr Andreas Kloyer
Partner
Frankfurt a.M., London
Benedikt Stücker
Senior Associate
Hanover
Philipp Dietz, LL.M. (Edinburgh)
Partner
Cologne
Dr Daniel Bischof
Counsel
Hamburg
Hannah Aigner
Senior Associate
Munich
Volker von Alvensleben
Of Counsel
Hamburg
Silvia C. Bauer
Partner
Cologne
Dr Stephan Bausch, D.U.
Partner
Cologne
Karsten Köhler
Partner
Leipzig
Dr Maximilian Dorndorf
Partner
Essen
Stephan Gittermann
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr Stefanie Hellmich, LL.M.
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr Christian Horn, LL.M. (Tulane)
Partner
Berlin
Dr Sebastian Felix Janka, LL.M. (Stellenbosch)
Partner
Munich
Dr Kuuya Josef Chibanguza, LL.B.
Partner
Hanover
Christiane Kühn, LL.M. (Hong Kong)
Partner
Munich
Christian Kuß, LL.M.
Partner
Cologne
Dr Jörgen Tielmann, LL.M.
Partner
Hamburg
Daniel Latta
Partner
Berlin
Dr Detlef Mäder
Partner
Cologne, Dusseldorf
Katharina Müller-Ehrlichmann, LL.M. oec.
Partner
Cologne
Dr Cédric Müller, LL.M. (Bristol)
Partner
Essen
Dr Kay Oelschlägel
Partner
Hamburg
Tobias Osseforth, Mag. rer. publ.
Partner
Munich
Dr Michael Rath
Partner
Cologne
Dr Wulff-Axel Schmidt
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr Markus Sengpiel
Managing Partner
Cologne
Carsten Andreas Senze
Partner
Stuttgart
Dr Björn Simon
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Andreas Tüxen, LL.M. (American University / WCL)
Partner
Berlin
Dr Andreas Vath
Partner
Munich
Dr Gregor Wecker
Partner
Cologne
Thomas Weidlich, LL.M. (Hull)
Partner
Cologne
Cornelia Yzer
Of Counsel
Berlin
Martin Zackor, LL.M. (UCD)
Counsel
Frankfurt a.M.
Johannes Klausch, LL.M. (London)
Partner
Berlin
Adrian Freidank
Counsel
Cologne
Michelle Petruzzelli
Senior Associate
Cologne
Elisabeth Kohoutek
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr Geert Johann Seelig
Partner
Hamburg
Dr Stephan Rippert LL.M.
Partner
Munich
Katharina Klenk-Wernitzki, Dipl. Reg.-Wiss
Partner
Berlin, Cologne
Caroline Ackermann
Partner
Munich
Dr Johannes Becker
Partner
Cologne
Alexander F. Liebing, LL.M.
Partner
Leipzig
Dr Christian Rabe
Counsel
Hamburg
Dr Isabel Schäfer
Counsel
Hamburg
Maximilian Issels, LL.M. (Stellenbosch)
Senior Associate
Munich
Niccolo Langenheim, LL.M.
Senior Associate
Cologne