SELECTED TALKS AND PUBLICATIONS

Platform regulation & Digital Services Act (DSA):

• Wahrheit, Macht und Transparenz – Zwischen Plattformmacht und Grundrechten – Der Digital Services Act (Strat Con; 04. July 2025; Holzmarkt)

• Navigating New Frontiers: Article 21 of the Digital Services Act and the Future of Content Moderation (Trust and Safety Research Conference; 26-27 September 2024; Stanford Law School)

• Out-of-court dispute settlement body within Art. 21 DSA: A practical approach to legal content moderation at scale (The DSA and Platform Regulation Conference; 15-16 February 2024; Amsterdam Law School)

Media Coverage (in German):

• Social-Media-Streitschlichtung: User Rights vermittelt bei Konflikten mit Plattformen (Manager Magazin, July 2025)

• Kontrolle von Sozialen Medien: Fehlentscheidungen einer KI (Zeit, March 2025)

• Diese Firma hilft Opfern von Hass und Hetze im Netz (Berliner Morgenpost, December 2024)

• Porträt von Raphael Kneer (Tagesspiegel Background, September 2024)

• Neue Beschwerdestelle für Nutzer von Instagram, TikTok und LinkedIn (Tagesschau, August 2024)

• Interview: Schlichtungsstelle für User und Plattformen (Deutschlandfunk, August 2024)

• Viele Wege führen zu einer Beschwerde (Netzpolitik.org, August 2024)

• Menschen, die Hoffnung machen (Frankfurter Rundschau, December 2022)

• Sein Startup hilft euch dabei, einen Betriebsrat zu gründen (Gründerszene, February 2022)

Publications (in German):

• Betriebsräte in Start-ups: Überlegungen und Konzepte zur Stärkung der Mitbestimmung (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung; FES-Impuls April 2024; together with Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Däubler und Bülent Kılavuz)

• Die automatisierte Kanzlei – Kleinere Massenverfahren sinnvoll digitalisieren (Rethinking Law, June 2022)

• Betriebliche Mitbestimmung und Legal Tech – Betriebsräte und Gewerkschaften in Zeiten der Digitalisierung (Rethinking Law, February 2022)

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Founding & Entrepreneurial Activities

2024–present: Founder & Managing Director, User Rights GmbH

• First Article 21 DSA certified dispute settlement body in Germany.

• Development of institutional and procedural frameworks for digital rights enforcement under EU law. Handling thousands of disputes with major social media platforms.

2022–2024: Founder & CEO, Laboraid GmbH

• Legal tech platform for digitizing works council operations.

• Development of arbeitsrechte.org and legaltutor.de

• Focus: Scalable legal tools for workers.

2019–present: Founder, Rechtsanwalt Raphael Kneer

• Law firm specialized in Digital Services Act, platform regulation, and legal tech.

• Advisory for NGOs and tech companies on regulatory innovation and rights enforcement in digital spaces.

2019–2020: Co-Founder & General Counsel, Swarm Market Research AI GmbH

• Co-founded a startup for predictive analytics and search data analysis.

Legal Training & Previous Positions

2017–2019: Legal Clerkship, Higher Regional Court Frankfurt am Main

Stations: Federal Foreign Office (Europe Desk/Brexit Team, Berlin) and German Embassy Lima

2011–2017: Law Studies, University of Heidelberg & CEU San Pablo Madrid

Focus: Tax Law (Heidelberg) | European Law (Madrid)

Additional Positions

• 2017–2020: Operations & Compliance Officer, f3x capital GmbH

• 2019–2020: Research Associate, SGP Schneider Geiwitz

• 2016: Internship, German Bundestag; Office of Michael Roth (Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office)

• 2013–2016: Working Student, Mediatum (Heidelberg), Executive Search Consulting

• 2008–2010: Apprenticeship as Retail Merchant, Peek & Cloppenburg KG Düsseldorf; with honors (IHK)