Lectures will be given by a panel of renowned experts from the field of IT Law and Legal Informatics. These include:


Prof. Dr. Georg Borges

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Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Since 2014, Prof. Dr. Georg Borges has held the Chair of Civil Law, Legal Informatics, German and International Business Law and Legal Theory at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany. He is also managing director of the Institute of Legal Informatics.
  • Prof. Dr. Borges practiced as a lawyer before having been appointed professor in 2004. For several years, he was also practicing as a judge at the Oberlandesgericht Hamm (functioning nearly exclusively as a Court of Appeal), where he was dealing with numerous corporate and commercial civil law matters.
  • Current research focuses on topics related to autonomous systems, the Internet of Things, cloud computing and German and European data protection law.


Professor Dr. Christoph Sorge

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Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Prof. Dr. Christoph Sorge is professor of legal informatics at Saarland University and director at the Institute of Legal Informatics at Saarland University.
  • Prof. Dr. Sorge completed his studies of Information Engineering and Management at the Universität Karlsruhe.
  • Previously, he worked as a researcher at NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH and as an assistant professor at Paderborn University.
  • Dr. Sorge’s research interests lie in privacy-enhancing technologies, applications of cryptography in network security, and questions of information privacy law with relation to security and data protection.

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