HanoverCaroline Gentgen-Barg
Senior Consultant
Caroline is a senior consultant and attorney at lexICT legal. Her professional focus lies in the fields of data protection and artificial intelligence, particularly regarding legal and ethical issues. She is pursuing a PhD on discriminatory AI, combining academic research with practical expertise. In addition to her legal expertise, she is distinguished by her affinity for languages - she speaks English and French.
Areas of interest
Webdesign
Cookies, embedded content, transparency obligations: everything about data protection on websites.
Online Marketing
Privacy-compliant user tracking, website analytics, and more.
AI Ethics
The questions of ethics raised by the various fields of application of artificial intelligence.
Employees
Data protection compliant processing of employee data in companies.
Career
Since 03/2026
Senior consultant and attorney at lexICT legal
01/2020
Research assistant at the Institute for Legal Informatics, particularly working in the field of AI, with a teaching assignment in Bias and Data Protection Law for PhD students
12/2019
Successful completion of the second state examination
12/2017
Legal clerkship in Hanover with placements at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, at Göhmann Rechtsanwälte with a focus on trademark law and industrial property rights, and at the Higher Regional Court
07/2017
Successful completion of the first state examination and Bachelor of Laws in IT/IP law
2016/2017
Specialized studies in IT & IP law
10/2011
Studied law and IT/IP law (LL.B.) in Hanover and Paris
Publications, talks and teaching
2022
Fairness-Definitionen bei algorithmischen Entscheidungen aus rechtlicher Perspektive
in: Heinze (Hrsg.), Tagungsband zur 23. DSRI-Herbstakademie 2022, S. 543 ff.
2022
Fairness-Definitionen bei algorithmischen Entscheidungen aus rechtlicher Perspektive
23. Herbstakademie der DSRI, Daten, Plattformen und KI als Dreiklang unserer Zeit
Proving AI Discrimination
Workshop on Bias and Discrimination in Algorithmic Decision-Making, Hannover
2026
Bias and Data Protection Law
Institute for Legal Informatics, Leibniz University Hannover, teaching assignment
KI Leader, professional training
Institut für Zukunftsbildung (IZB), ongoing