Faculty

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

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.

São Paolo, Brazil

Rafael Campedelli Andrade has been a judge at the São Paulo State Court since 2021 and is a PhD candidate at the University of São Paulo.
His research focuses on the use of generative AI in the drafting of judicial decisions.
He also holds a Certificate in German Law from LMU Munich. Before joining the judiciary, he worked at Felsberg Advogados, where his practice included work with the firm’s German Desk.

SINC GmbH, Wiesbaden, Germany

Till Elborg studied Law and Philosophy in Mainz and Brussels and completed his legal traineeship with the second state examination in law in 2002.
His passion for IT started in 1982 using BASIC as programming language on a C-64 breadbox, he got his first PC in 1986 and favoured database crafting starting in 1987 with dBase and Clipper; he founded the company SINC GmbH in 1999 and is still working as CEO.
Since then he has been involved in numerous projects covering infrastructure, software development and IT security and dedicates a lot of his time for training and education of young IT experts.
Mr. Elborg belongs to a small count of law-academics with a full vertical understanding of the algorithms and methods used in modern text analysis and legal informatics, a field which he believes already is of critical importance for the next generation of IT solutions.

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Felix Freiling is full professor of Computer Science at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) in Germany.
His main research focus is on forensic computing, meaning the application of methods from computer science to answer questions of the legal system.
He has published numerous papers on the methodological foundations of the field, including acquisition processes of digital evidence, tool support for analysis of digital evidence, and technical aspects of legal admissability.
He is one of the founders of the first German professional Bachelors and Masters degree programmes focussing on digital forensics and has trained several generations of expert witnesses therein.
He is also the spokesperson of the Research Training Group "Cybercrime and Forensic Computing" funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

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.

Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

Prof. Dr. Dimitrios Linardatos holds the Chair of Civil Law, Law of Digitalisation and Business Law at Saarland University.
Since April 2026, he has also served as a Seconded National Expert at the European Commission, where he contributes to work on the European Quantum Act.
Before his appointment at Saarland University, he practised as a lawyer and held a substitute professorship in Banking and Financial Market Law at the University of Liechtenstein.
His teaching and research focus on civil law, financial market law, autonomous agents, and the legal framework for emerging technologies.

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.

University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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.

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.
Prof. 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.