Dr. Carolin Monsees

Carolin is a specialist lawyer in the field of information technology law and member of the Technology, Media & Telecoms practice area in Germany. Carolin specialises in IT contract and data protection law.

Carolin advises on the contractual aspects of complex digitalisation projects as well as European and international data protection requirements. Being an expert in the field of privacy litigation, she represents clients in court and conducts negotiations with the competent supervisory authorities.

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Career

Since 2021	Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing
2019 – 2021	Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2017 – 2019	Associate, Taylor Wessing

2015 – 2017	Independent lawyer
2013 – 2015	Associate, Harmsen Utescher, Hamburg

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Education

2015 – 2017	Ph.D. as scholar of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
2013	Admitted as a lawyer, Hamburg
2013	Second state examination, Higher Regional Court Hamburg

2011 – 2013	Legal clerkship, Hamburg and London
2011	First state examination, University Passau

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Publications

Security-Anforderungen an Kliniken steigen, in: Computerwoche, mit Mareike Gehrmann, 09/2021

Fördermittel nach KHZG – nur unter Beachtung des Datenschutzes, PlugIn - Das Krankenhauszukunftsgesetz, Ausgabe #33 Dezember 2020

Privacy Litigation: Legal recourse and applicable procedural law in data protection matters in Germany, PlugIn – Happy Birthday GDPR, Edition #30, May 2020

Access to Account: Kontoinformationsdienste in der Doppelregulierung, PlugIn – Wir denken das Recht der digitalen Zukunft, Edition #15, November 2018

Public Information in the Food Sector, dissertation, October 2018

Vom Wein zur Malerei: (Staatliches) Informationshandeln am Beispiel der Internetdatenbank „Lost Art“ (gemeinsam mit Prof. Dr. Urs Kramer) , in: Jura 2016, p. 985–991

Staatliches Informationshandeln – Warnungen vor E-Zigaretten, Entscheidungsbesprechung zu BVerwG, Urt. V. 20.11.2014 (gemeinsam mit Prof. Dr. Michael Fehling), in: ZJS 2015, p. 613–619

Die Neuregelung des Scoring, § 28 BDSG (gemeinsam mit A. Seidl), in: AnwaltZertifikatOnline 12/2010 Anm. 3

Memberships & Associations

Alumni of German Academic Scholarship Foundation

International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), KnowledgeNet Chapter Chair Hamburg

Additional languages

English

Expertise

Sectors Technology, media & communications Life sciences & healthcare Consumer & retail Fintech

Experience

Development and implementation of a comprehensive digitalisation strategyq

A world leading manufacturer of industrial plants for the food & beverage industry on the company’s digitalisation strategy. The project included implementation of the strategy into the entire workflow, processes and contractual relationships with industrial customers, suppliers and aftermarket stakeholders.