{"id":6265,"date":"2020-01-19T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bartsch.law\/1718432266859\/ra\/dr-habil-christian-foerster\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T12:38:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:38:59","slug":"dr-habil-christian-foerster","status":"publish","type":"ra","link":"https:\/\/bartsch.law\/en\/ra\/dr-habil-christian-foerster\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. habil. Christian F\u00f6rster"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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IT Law<\/p><\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/div>

Information technology law (“IT law”) concerns the large area of software, hardware and data processing, which is developing and changing faster than almost any other area. It is therefore easy to lose track of things. We offer you sound advice and support you in all legal matters relating to your IT, including contract review and drafting, licenses, hosting and, last but not least, cybersecurity, to ensure that your IT business practices are legally sound and protected against harmful interference.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>

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Data protection<\/p><\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/div>

We offer comprehensive legal advice in the area of data protection to ensure that your practices comply with applicable data protection laws. Our services include drafting customized data protection policies, monitoring and auditing data processing activities and ensuring full compliance with all relevant data protection regulations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>

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Industrial Property Rights<\/p><\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/div>

Intellectual property law is used whenever you need to protect your intellectual property, such as patents, trademarks and copyrights, and protect it from damage caused by unfair competition. We support you with tailor-made legal structuring (e.g. trademark searches and registrations, structuring and obtaining licenses and rights of use) as well as with the enforcement of or defence against claims for compensation in the event of infringement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>

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Commercial Law<\/p><\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/div>

You will hardly experience a working day on which you are not confronted with questions of commercial law, regardless of whether these are your own terms and conditions of delivery or purchase, ongoing agreements with customers or project-specific contracts. With our many years of experience, we can help you with the rapid provision of standard contracts as well as with the drafting of complex special agreements. We can also check the rules and regulations of your business partners and assist you in contract negotiations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>

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Transportation & Logistics<\/p><\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/div>

Transport & Logistics includes the efficient planning, organization and implementation of goods and freight transport as well as the management of warehousing and distribution processes to ensure the smooth running of the supply chain. We support you from a legal perspective by reviewing, drafting and negotiating contracts for you, helping to identify liability risks and handling any claims.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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In more than two decades of university work, I have learned to get to the bottom of a legal problem before presenting my findings. For one thing, the devil is in the detail, and for another, you can only explain convincingly what you have understood yourself.<\/p>\n

I therefore first listen to my clients to find out what is bothering them and what their goal is. My main task is then to pave the legal way for them to get there. This in turn means analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of the various alternatives and explaining them to the client. We can then decide together which is actually the best solution.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Career<\/p><\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/div>

I studied law at the University of T\u00fcbingen [from 1992 to 1997].[von 1992 bis 1997] Impressed by the elective station in Tokyo at the end of my legal clerkship, I began studying Japanese Studies in T\u00fcbingen and Kyoto [in 1999] parallel to my dissertation project.[1999] I completed my doctorate [2002] on the topic of corporate law: “The Dimension of the Company: A Chapter in German and Japanese Legal History”. [2002]<\/p>\n

I then remained at the University of T\u00fcbingen as a research assistant and completed my habilitation there with the thesis: “Die Fusion der Personalsicherheiten – Eine Neusystematisierung von B\u00fcrgschaft und Garantie aus rechtsvergleichender Perspektive” [2009].[2009] I received a teaching license for the subjects of civil law, commercial and business law and comparative law.<\/p>\n

This was followed by temporary professorships in Bonn, Dresden, Frankfurt am Main and Freiburg. After a first brief foray into the legal profession, I was offered a professorship for “Transcultural Studies (Social Sciences)” at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe” at the University of Heidelberg [in 2014], which I held until the Cluster expired [at the end of 2018]. [Ende 2018] [2014]<\/p>\n

I have been a partner at Bartsch Rechtsanw\u00e4lte since January 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>

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