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Hannah Vos

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Hannah Vos, Solicitor & Partner – KM8

Solicitor Hannah Vos specialises in public law and primarily deals with the enforcement of rights to access information and press law claims.She studied law in Berlin and New York City. During her legal clerkship, she completed placements at the Federal Ministry of Justice in the Department for Foreigners and Refugee Law, at a law firm specialising in administrative law, in particular civil service law, and at the German Embassy in Accra, Ghana. Both before and after her legal clerkship, she also worked in large law firms operating nationwide in the field of public law. In addition, she worked for several years as a judge in Berlin, specialising in administrative and criminal law.Since the beginning of 2021, she has been working at the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany on the FragDenStaat project, and since April 2022 as head of the legal team. There, she handles strategic lawsuits in the field of freedom of information law and supports FragDenStaat’s research and campaign work from a legal perspective.She is co-editor of the Handbook on Freedom of Information Law and publishes on freedom of information topics in various media. She collaborated on the civil society draft for a federal transparency law and served as an expert advisor to the Saxon state parliament.

As a solicitor, she primarily handles cases relating to information access law, but also general administrative law.She is a member of the board of the Offene Tore e.V. association, which runs the Freedom Fund project.

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Talks & events with Hannah Vos (9)