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Alexander Devlin

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Alexander is a member of our Practice Area Technology, Media & Communications. He advises national and international companies, in particular, from the media, entertainment, science, telecommunications, and IT industries on all matters relating to copyright and media law. He focuses on issues of personality rights and press law as well as provider liability for infringing content on the Internet.

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CV

Since 2025 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2022 Associate, Taylor Wessing
2022 Admitted to the Bar
2022 Second state examination, Hamburg
2020 - 2022 Legal clerkship, Hanseatic Higher Regional Court, Hamburg, with stations at the EU – Commission, Directorate-General for Competition and a major international law firm in Hamburg
2019 First State Examination, Freiburg im Breisgau, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
2013 - 2019 Legal studies, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg im Breisgau

Career

Since 2025 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2022 Associate, Taylor Wessing

Education

2022 Admitted to the Bar
2022 Second state examination, Hamburg
2020 - 2022 Legal clerkship, Hanseatic Higher Regional Court, Hamburg, with stations at the EU – Commission, Directorate-General for Competition and a major international law firm in Hamburg
2019 First State Examination, Freiburg im Breisgau, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
2013 - 2019 Legal studies, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg im Breisgau

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Keine generell-abstrakten Ausnahmen vom Herkunftslandprinzip, in: K&R 2024

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