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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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.

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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.

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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.

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