1. Saarland University
Saarland University is a modern university in the Saar-Lor-Lux region – a dynamic part in the heart of Europe defined by the common borders of Germany, France and Luxembourg. Saarland University has been distinctively internationally oriented ever since it has been established in cooperation with France in 1948.Today, about 17.000 students are being enrolled at Saarland University, including the faculty of medicine in Homburg. 20 % of these are international students.
Despite Saarland being Germany's smallest federal State, Saarland University hosts many key institutes dealing with Informatics and Information Technology.
Saarland University campus is home to two separate Max Planck Institutes, the German Centre for IT Security, Privacy & Accountability (CISPA), the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) as well as the Institute of Legal Informatics.
2. Institute of Legal Informatics
The Institute of Legal Informatics is part of the faculty of law at Saarland University with Prof. Dr. Georg Borges being the institute’s managing director. It is one of Germany's leading research institutions in the area of IT Law and Legal Informatics. Due to its close ties with CISPA, the German Conference on Information Technology in the Judiciary, the working group "Online Identity Protection" (a-i3), the Horst-Görtz-Institute for IT Security (HGI) and co-operations with further renowned universities, the Institute of Legal Informatics is extremely well interconnected – both on a national and an international level.Please find more information on the respective organizations’ website: