Education and Career
Lea studied law at the HU Berlin and the Sapienza Universitá di Roma. After her first state examination, she completed a Master's programme in ‘Law and Digital Technologies’ at Leiden University (Netherlands).
During her legal clerkship, she worked in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications practice group of an international law firm in Berlin and held further positions in the policy department for digitalisation at the Federal Ministry of the Interior and at Germany's digital association Bitkom. In parallel to her legal clerkship, Lea worked as a research assistant at a start-up in Berlin.
After completing her second state examination, Lea worked as a research assistant at Bitkom while completing her doctorate and was also an associate researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin.
Speeches
- AI Use Cases & Legal Challenges – Insights from Consulting Practice,
July 30, 2025, Webinar (together with Benedikt Flöter)
Qualifications
- German Qualified Attorney (Rechtsanwältin)
- LL.M. (Leiden University)
Languages
- German
- English
- Italian
- Regulating AI – A Technology Law Perspective on Regulatory Strategies for Emerging Technologies, digital | recht. - Publications on Intellectual Property, IT, Media, Data and Competition Law
Universität Trier, October 29, 2025 - Data Governance under the AI Act,
in: Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Rights: The AI Act of the European Union and its implications for global technology regulation, S. 75-89, August 21, 2025 (together with Lisa Markschies) - The risk management system according to the new rules for artificial intelligence,
KIR, 2024, 134 (together with Susanne Dehmel) [in German] - Regulating AI: A Matrix for Gauging Impact and its Legal Implementation,
University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 12/2024 (together with Maurice Chiodo, Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan, Dennis Müller and Herbert Zech) [in German] - Third Country Transfers after Schrems II,
MMR, 2023, 17 (together with Susanne Dehmel and Rebekka Weiss) [in German]
