Faculty

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.

Photographer: Oliver Dietze

Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

• Prof. Dr. Christoph Sorge is a 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.

Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

• Associate Professor at the University of São Paulo Law School and Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow.
• Program Chair of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL2025).

Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

• Professor Dr. Holger Hermanns is a professor of Computer Science at Saarland University. He holds the chair of Dependable Systems and Software on Saarland Informatics Campus.
• Hermanns previously held positions at Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, at Universiteit Twente, the Netherlands, and at INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes, France. He is a member of Academia Europaea and has been awarded multiple ERC grants.
• His research interests include modelling and verification of concurrent systems, resource-aware embedded systems, compositional performance and dependability evaluation, and their applications to energy and space informatics.