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.

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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.

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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).

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University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Delphine Reinhardt is a full professor and head of the Computer Security and Privacy group at the University of Göttingen. 
• Before moving to Göttingen in January 2018, she was an assistant professor at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in Germany from 2014 to 2017. 
• She was also associated to the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics (FKIE) during that time.
• She completed her doctoral degree in computer science at Technische Universität Darmstadt in 2013.

• Her general research interests are privacy, pervasive computing, and usability.

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• Professor. Victor Sanchez, PhD,  is professor (Reader) of Computer Science with the Department of Computer Science of The University of Warwick, UK, where he leads the Signal and Information Processing (SIP) Lab.
• He received the PhD degree from The University of British Columbia, Canada, in 2010, and was later a Postdoctoral Researcher at The University of California at Berkeley, USA.
• His research focuses on the application of signal processing and machine/deep learning for image and video analysis, biometrics, and security. He has authored over 140 papers in these areas.
• He has been a member of the Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and is currently the Chair of the Technical Committee on Computational Forensics under the auspices of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).

• His research is currently funded by Ford Motor Company USA and the Defence and Security Accelerator of the UK’s Home Office.

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• Principle of Informatics Research Division, National Institute of Informatics/Professor,
• 1981-1995 Fujitsu Laboratories (AI research),
• 1995-2001 Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University (AI research),
• 2001-2024 Full Professor, National Institute of Informatics (AI research and Research of Juris-Informatics),
• 2024- Director, Center for Juris-Informatics,
• Ken Satoh has been studying logical foundations of artificial intelligence for 30 years and 
  published more than 200 papers (see his homepage 49 Journal papers, 44 book chapters, 
  and 121 conference/workshop papers, including publication at AAAI, IJCAI and AAMAS (list of puplications can be found here). In 2009, to seek practical application of his 
  research to the law domain, he graduated from the law school of the University of Tokyo, the one of the best law schools in Japan and passed the Japanese bar exam in 2017. 

• Moreover, he started a workshop called "JURISIN" (International workshop on JurisInformatics) from 2007. He is also one of the organizers of COLIEE (competition on legal 
  information and extraction and entailment). As a notable contribution to the AI and Law research, he proposed PROLEG (PROLOG based LEGal reasoning system) by which he 
  formalized more than 2500 rules in Japanese civil code. He is the current Japanese leader in the field of Ai and law.

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• Professor Burkhard Schafer joined the School of Law of the University of Edinburgh in 1996. 
• Since 2010, as chair for Computational Legal Theory. He is co-founder and co-director of the SCIPT Center for IT and IP Law, and an affiliated member of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Cyber Security and Privacy CASP at the School of Informatics at Edinburgh.
•  He holds degrees in logic, philosophy, computer linguistics and law from the Universities of Munich and  Lancaster. His main field of research is the interface between computer technology, science and the law, in particular questions of formalisation of legal reasoning, law compliance by design and legal expert systems.
• He is the chair of the “Legal services” expert group of AI4People and a member of the Legal Technologist Accreditation Panel of the Law Society of Scotland.  
• He served as a member of the “New technologies in policing” and the “Digital Ethical Scotland” expert groups of the Scottish Government, and the data ethics group of the UK Cabinet Office.
• Since 2025, he has also been a member of the advisory board of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). 

• Current research projects include the Centre for the Decentralised Digital Economy DECaDE, and the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Network.

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• Erich Schweighofer studied law (specialisation in economic law, European law and international law), business administration, business informatics and international studies in Vienna (Mag. rer.soc.oec, Dr. iur. Dr. rer.soc.oec, diploma of the International Studies Programme).
• He joined Vienna University in 1986 as researcher/lecturer (i.a. Head of the European Documentation Centre 1988-98, IT-Commissioner 1989-94) and was appointed associate professor in 1985. In 1995, he founded the still existing Group for Legal Informatics (Arbeitsgruppe Rechtsinformatik).
• Besides his academic carrier, he held several positions in administration: Principal Administrator of the European Commission (2002-2007 and 2020-2025), Head of European Training, Federal Academy for Public Administration (1998-2000),  and Legal Officer in the Legal Office of the Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Völkerrechtsbüro). 
• In 2004, he has founded the Vienna Centre for Computers and law (Wiener Zentrum für Rechtsinformatik) and is its president since then. 

• He is main organiser and trustee of the International Legal Informatics Symposium IRI§ (Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposion), already in its 29th year.

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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.

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Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

• I am a member of the chair [of Prof. Dr. Holger Hermanns] since July 2019 and a PhD student with Prof. Holger Hermanns.
• I am also currently the main lecturer of »Ethics for Nerds«, where we teach relevant aspects of philosophy and ethics to computer scientists. 
  Due to my dual background in both philosophy and computer science, 
• I serve as a member of the Ethical Review Board of the faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science and also of the Commission on the Ethics of Security-Relevant Research at Saarland University.

• I received my B.Sc. in computer science in 2017 and an M.A. in philosophy in 2019, both from Saarland University. 
  As a student, I spent some time at the University of Luxembourg and the University of St Andrews, Scotland.

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