Dr. Torsten Gerhard

Expertise

Public law and data protection law are both central working areas of Torsten Gerhard.

In public law, Torsten Gerhard advises companies and the public sector on core questions, in particular construction and planning law, but also public law special areas, for example freedom of information law, gambling law or the Infection Protection Act. He brings his experience from earlier work as local councillor to his advice on municipal and local authority constitutional law issues.

Torsten Gerhard has special experience in conducting administrative and constitutional law proceedings. He appears regularly before the Federal Administrative Court and represents his clients also before the constitutional courts of the Federation and the Länder and before the European Court of Justice.

In 2010 – long before the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect – Torsten Gerhard established the data protection law practice at OPPENLÄNDER. Since then he advises clients on data protection law issues, in particular in the typical OPPENLÄNDER industries of health and mobility.

Torsten Gerhard is the author of many publications and regularly lectures at events and conferences. He is a co-author of commentaries and handbooks, including on hospital law, European election law and wine law.