Lothar Determann

Practice Areas

Lothar Determann has been helping companies in Silicon Valley and around the world take products, business models, intellectual property and contracts global at Baker McKenzie for more than 20 years. He advises on data privacy law compliance, cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other information technology commercialization, interactive entertainment, media, copyrights, open source licensing, electronic commerce, technology transactions, sourcing and international distribution at Baker McKenzie in San Francisco and Palo Alto. He is a member of the Firm's International/Commercial Practice Group and the TMT and Healthcare Industry Groups.

Lothar's practice is focused on data privacy law compliance, information technology, copyrights, product regulations and international commercial law.

Publications

More than 175 articles and treatise contributions as well as five books, including:

• Determann’s Field Guide to Data Privacy Law (5th Edition, 2022, also available in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Vietnamese)

• California Privacy Law: Practical Guide and Commentary on U.S. Federal and California Law (5th Ed. 2023)

• Determann's Field Guide to Artificial Intelligence Law (2024)

• Healthy Data Protection

• Electronic Form over Substance

• No One Owns Data

Other publications:

• "Open Cars," Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Volume 32 (2017)

• "Software Copyright’s Oracle from the Cloud," Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Volume 30 Issue 1 (2015), September 2015

• "What Happens in the Cloud: Software as a Service and Copyrights," Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Volume 29 Issue 2 (2015), January 2014

• "On War and Peace in Cyberspace," Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Volume 41 (2014), May 2014

Professional Memberships

Lothar has been teaching since 1994, including at:

• Freie Universität Berlin (since 1994), incl. AI & IT Law, Data Privacy

• University of California, Berkeley School of Law (since 2004), incl. Computer Law and California Privacy Law

• College of the Law San Francisco, formerly known as Hastings College of the Law (since 2010)

• Stanford Law School (2011) and University of San Francisco School of Law (2000- 2005)

Expert in these Jurisdictions

USA

Languages Spoken

English, German

Education