Dr. Marc Ruttloff
Dr. Marc Ruttloff (Co-Head of the ESG practice and the Product Compliance Hub in Stuttgart, Head of the Regulatory Practice and Co-Head of the Automotive & Mobility industry group, part of the Energy & Infrastructure and Digital Economy industry groups).
Marc advises on public commercial law, in particular on issues of administrative law, constitutional law, European law, public liability, and regulated industries. Another focus of his advice is on supply chain and ESG/CSR compliance, product liability and product safety law, all aspects of product compliance including current developments such as sustainability transformation, connectivity, data protection as well as artificial intelligence. He is Head of the Public Law Practice Group and Co-Head of the ESG Practice and the Automotive & Mobility Industry Group.
Marc studied in Würzburg, where he also completed a supplementary course in European law, and in Cologne, where he received his doctorate in 2011. He has been with Gleiss Lutz since 2010. His doctoral thesis, The Admissibility of Penalty Clauses in Urban Development Contracts in Connection with Large-Scale Retail Projects, received the University of Cologne’s doctoral award in 2012. He was a scholar of the German National Academic Foundation from 2002 to 2007 and received the Wolfgang Kuhlen Prize of the Dr. Otto Schäfer Foundation in 2007. In 2016, he completed a six-month secondment in the Regulatory/Environmental practice of a leading Canadian law firm in Toronto. He is a member of the Society for Environmental Law (Gesellschaft für Umweltrecht, GfU), the German-Canadian Society (Deutsch-Kanadische Gesellschaft, DKG), and the Administrative Law Working Group of the German Bar Association (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Verwaltungsrecht im DAV). He also serves on the board of the German section of the International Nuclear Law Association (INLA). Moreover, he is member of the constitutional law committee of the German Bar Association (Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer). He regularly speaks at specialist conferences and is the author of numerous publications.