Thomas Schuster advises the public sector on digital transformation, both legally and in terms of strategic and conceptual issues.
In particular, he supports ministries, municipalities, universities and other public bodies in e-government law and administrative digitization, and has made a name for himself as a highly respected and well-connected expert in the special field of implementing innovative, digital projects in the public sector, including in the smart city context. His main field of activity over the past two years has been supporting public administration in the implementation of the OZG as well as the internal digitization of the administration. In this context, he also advises on the interfaces to public procurement law, such as in the area of IT security and data protection.
In addition to this special expertise, he is also active in administrative and constitutional law, in particular in the areas of information law, subsidy or grant law, higher education law, as well as in the legal design of state cooperation models (administrative agreements, organizational law and tasks / competencies, including intermunicipal cooperation).
Thomas Schuster has been working almost exclusively in the field of administrative digitalization and e-government for several years. Until joining EICHLER KERN KLEIN in January 2023, he held various positions in the judiciary, academia and the legal profession, in particular as a research assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court (BVR Masing department). Most recently, he was a partner at GvW Graf von Westphalen in their Stuttgart office.
He regularly publishes on his thematic focus areas and participates as a speaker at conferences and other events - most recently, for example, at Baden-Württemberg 4.0 and at the Digital State. He has lectureships at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer and at the Kehl University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration, both on the topics of administrative digitization and e-government.