Contact
Phone: +49 (0)40 – 18189800
E-mail: raji@bkp-kanzlei.de
Expertise
- Data law
- Data protection law
- Artificial intelligence law
- IT Law
Languages
German, English
Memberships
Prof. Dr. Raji is a lawyer and teaches data protection and data law at the University of Applied Sciences Wedel. He completed his doctorate with a thesis on “AI in the public sector” and is the editor of a commentary on the Data Act and the Data Governance Act.
He works full-time as an in-house lawyer for a leading life sciences company, which he advises nationally and globally on data protection issues. Previously, he worked for the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (HmbBfDI) as head of department (trade and infrastructure) and advisor for health and social affairs, where he supervised and advised public and non-public bodies.
His focus areas include the secondary use of data for research purposes in the healthcare sector and legal issues in connection with artificial intelligence.
Prof. Dr. Raji regularly gives lectures on data protection issues and publishes in specialist journals.
Veröffentlichungen & Veranstaltungen
Book contributions and monographs
- Data spaces in the European data strategy using the example of the Health Data Space, in: Heinze (Hsg.) Tagungsband Herbstakademie 2022, Daten, Plattformen und KI als Dreiklang unserer Zeit (OWIR), p. 187 – 201
- AI in the public sector – Constitutional and data protection framework for the state use of intelligent technologies, 2023 (Duncker & Humblot) (Diss.)
- Data protection issues in connection with CRM systems, in: Praxishandbuch DSGVO, Moos/ Shefzig/ Arning (ed.), 3rd edition (forthcoming)
- Computer Law Handbook, Taeger/Phole, Overview of the European Health Data Space (EHDS), probably 38th edition (forthcoming)
Comments
- §§ Sections 12, 17 TTDSG, in: Riechert/Wilmer (eds.), TTDSG Commentary, 1st edition, Berlin 2022
- Art. 51, 52, 53, 54, 57 GDPR, in: Freund/Schmidt/Hepp/Roscheck (eds.), GDPR Practice Commentary, 1st edition, Frankfurt am Main 2023
- Art. 30, 31 GDPR, in: Taeger/Gabel (ed.) Kommentar DSGVO – BDSG -TTDSG, 5th edition (forthcoming)
- Data Governance Act/ Data Act, Raji (ed.) Commentary (forthcoming)
- Art. 91, 92, 93, 94 KI-VO, together with Dr. Jens Ambrock, in: Schefzig/Kilian, BeckOK KI-Verordnung, 2025 (forthcoming)
Trade journals
- Data spaces in the European data strategy using the example of the European Health Data Space, ZD, 2023, 3 – 8.
- Privileged training of AI systems, DSB 2022, 193 – 195.
- Legal assessment of synthetic data for AI systems, DuD 2021, 303 – 309.
- Right to information in practice, in ZD 2020, 279 – 283
- Effects of the GDPR on national photo law, the KUG in the cogwheel model of the GDPR in: ZD 2019, 61 – 66
- Conflicts between the platform regulation of the Commission’s draft AVMSD and the current E-Commerce Directive in: Afp, 2017, 192-196
Lectures and other contributions
- Data protection challenges in the use of AI using the example of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), Senate Chancellery Hamburg, 05/2025
- 4th Hamburg Data Protection Forum, Implementation of the Data Act in companies, 05/2025
- AI & Life Sciences, Beck Academy Seminars 04/2025
- Handelsblatt GovTech Summit 2025, Berlin – Masterclass Automation vs. individuality: Can AI relieve the burden on administration?
- C4B – CFO Circle – Legal aspects of artificial intelligence- 28.11.2024
- C4B (Competence for Business) – Use of artificial intelligence in practice – legal and technical basics – 27.06.2024
- Taylor Wessing Digital Legal Academy 2024, Kampf um die Datenschätze, together with Dr. Axel von dem Bussche and Stephanie Richter, LL.M., slides available here, webinar available here
- Virtual agents and chatbots in healthcare: Implications for confidentiality and data protection, HIVAM project, lecture at the Informatikum, University of Hamburg, 2023
- (R)eally interesting! Episode 102 AI – Hasta la vista, baby? (available here)
- Bundesverband Credit Management e.V. – Federal Congress 2023, Düsseldorf (panel discussion, data protection in credit management)
- The use of generative AI systems in companies – which aspects are important for lawyers when advising clients, 2023, available here (blog post)
- Challenges of AI Regulation in the EU-trilogue: Searching for a balanced solution, 2023, available here (blog post)
- Kedua Data Protection Day – Artificial intelligence in the field of data protection, Berlin, 06/2023 (lecture)
- The liability for AI Systems, 2022, available here (blog post)
- Data strategy of the European Commission using the example of the European Health Data Space, Autumn Academy 2022, lecture available here
- Employee data protection, Kedua GmbH, Leipzig 09/2022 (one-day seminar)
- Data protection and AI – pretty much best enemies, Taylor Wessing/HGD Hamburg, 09/2022 (lecture)
- Emerging AI Regulation – A Regulator’s Perspective, Data Protection Round Table, Frankfurt, 06/2022 (Lecture)
- Secondary use of health data for research purposes, Junior Research Group UKE, 06/2022 (lecture)
- GDD Summer Workshop – The right to information according to Art. 15 GDPR, 08/2021 (Lecture)
- mostly.ai Podcast: Data Democratization No. 13, 2021, available here (Podcast)
- Interview, 6 Questions to Behrang Raji, 2021, available here (blog post)
- The Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA) – a brief overview 2021, available here (blog post)
- Law by design law enforcement through algorithmic systems, 2021 – North German Association of Intellectual Property Lawyers (NVFGR), Fall Conference (lecture)
- Privacy Litigation, 2021, Cyber Law Clinic, University of Hamburg (Lecture)
- Fundamentals of Privacy Litigation, 2021, North German Association of Intellectual Property Lawyers (NVFGR), Fall Conference (lecture)
- The right to information pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR – an overview from the perspective of the supervisory authority, 2021, Bundesverband Deutscher Unternehmensberater (BDU), (lecture)
- Synthesization as anonymization, training AI without personal reference, 2021, JUC – Training Network Data Protection and Freedom of Information – Research – Policy – Consulting (lecture)
- AI training without personal reference, 2021, Stiftung Datenschutz – Datenschutz am Mittag, available here
- Machine learning and data protection, in: Com! professional, 9/2020, 68 – 70, available online here
- A marriage of convenience or a love match? AI and data protection, 2020, Taylor Wessing Tech & Law TV #4, available here
- AI and data protection – marriage of convenience or love match?, 2020, Taylor Wessing Podcast, Law on your ear, #8, available here
- The GDPR as a new warning risk for store operators) 2018, available here (blog post)
Current teaching assignments
- Data protection law FH Wedel
- AI & Law in the Master’s program “Data Science & Artificial Intelligence” FH Wedel