Stefan Heilmann, LL.B.

Stefan Heilmann, LL.B., studied Law at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg and at Victoria University of Wellington/New Zealand, with emphases on information and communication law. He was a student assistant at the Hans Bredow Institute for two years and worked as a research assistant in the Institute's department of “Media and Telecommunications Law” from June 2006 until the end of 2011. Since 2012 he is an associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP.

Until July 2011, he had been a legal trainee (Referendar) at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court of Hamburg with placements at different institutions dealing with communications law and regulation such as the Independent Centre for Data Protection in Schleswig-Holstein, the Australian Communications and Media Authority in Sydney and a mobile communication service provider in Kuala Lumpur.

His research interests lie in the area of the regulation of communications, particularly as regards developments in convergence and data protection as well as in legal and policy issues concerning user-generated content and online games/virtual worlds.