Law and Technology in a Global Digital Society Autonomous Systems, Big Data, IT Security and Legal Tech

Georg Borges is Professor of Civil Law, Legal Informatics, German and International Business Law and Legal Theory and the managing director of the Institute for Legal Informatics at Saarland University, Germany. From 2004 to 2014, he was Professor of Law at Ruhr-University Bochum. Beside this, he was also a judge at the State Court of Appeals, Hamm Circuit. As an expert on business law with a focus on IT Law, Prof. Borges authored several books and numerous articles in the field of IT law. His current research is related to artificial intelligence, Internet of Things and data protection law.

Christoph Sorge received his PhD in computer science from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He then joined the NEC Laboratories Europe, Network Research Division, as a research scientist. From 2010, Christoph was an assistant professor ("Juniorprofessor") for Network Security at the University of Paderborn. He joined Saarland University in 2014, where he is now Full Professor of Legal Informatics in the Faculty of Law and a co-opted Professor of Computer Science.  He is an associated member of the CISPA – Helmholtz Center for Information Security, a senior fellow of the German Research Institute for Public Administration, and a board member of the German Association for Computing in the Judiciary. His research area is the intersection of computer science and law, with a focus on data protection.