Schedule
Summer School 2025
1. Monday, July 28
Get-together
| From 18:00 | Guided tour of the university campus, starting at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Borges, and Information on the Summer School Informal get-together with pizza and drinks |
2. Tuesday, July 29
Block 1 – Artificial Intelligence & Data regulation
Prof. Dr. Borges/Prof. Dr. Maranhão/ Prof. Dr. Satoh
| 09.30 – 09.45 | Opening address by the vice dean of the law faculty Prof. Dr. Borges |
| 09:45 – 10:00 | Introduction Prof. Dr. Borges |
| 10:00 – 11:30 Session 1 | Juris-Informatics and Neuro-Symbolic AI Prof. Dr. Satoh |
| 11:30 – 11:45 | Coffee Break |
| 11:45 – 13:00 Session 2 | Legal Framework of Artificial Intelligence. A European Perspective Prof. Dr. Borges |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 – 15:30 Session 3 | Global legal framework of AI Prof. Dr. Maranhão |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 – 17:15 Session 4 | Liability for AI systems Prof. Dr. Borges |
| From 18:00 | Guided walking tour of Saarbrücken starting at the Saarbrücken town hall (Rathaus) |
3. Wednesday, July 30
Block 1 – Artificial Intelligence & Data regulation
Prof. Dr. Hermanns/Prof. Dr. Maranhão/Prof. Schafer
| 09:30 – 11:00 Session 1 | Artificial Intelligence: Scientific foundations, techniques and ethical issues Prof. Dr. Hermanns |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 – 12:45 Session 2 | Artificial Intelligence: Scientific foundations, techniques and ethical issues Prof. Dr. Hermanns & Sarah Sterz |
| 12:45 – 13:45 | Lunch Break |
| 13:45 – 15:15 Session 3 | AI Governance: Risk Assessment and Mitigation Prof. Dr. Maranhão |
| 15:15 – 15:45 | Coffee Break |
| 15:45 – 17:00 Session 4 | AI verification and the law of evidence Prof. Schafer |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | A comparative analysis of data protection issues of LLMs Dr. Reddy |
| 17:30 – 18:00 | Legal Liability in the Age of GPAI: A Comparative Perspective between the EU and China Zhu |
| From 18:00 | Evening off |
4. Thursday, July 31
Block 2 – Data Protection & IT Security
Prof. Dr. Sorge/Prof. Schafer
| 09:30 – 11:00 Session 1 | An introduction to cybersecurity and data protection Prof. Dr. Sorge |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 – 12:45 Session 2 | Data protection and data ownership in the decentralised digital economy Prof. Schafer |
| 12:45 - 13:45 | Lunch Break |
| 13:45 – 15:00 Session 3 | An introduction to anonymisation Prof. Dr. Sorge |
| From 15:00 | EXCURSION (Visit of Bergwerk Velsen) |
5. Friday, August 1
Interdisciplinary Workshop on AI Certification
| 09:30 – 09:40 | Opening address by vice dean of the law faculty Prof. Dr. Borges |
| 09:40 – 09:50 | Introduction Prof. Dr. Borges |
| 09:50 – 10:20 | The Carat project on AI Certification Dr. Adekemi/S. Sterz |
| 10:20 – 11:00 | AI Certification as a Deep Socio-Technical Challenge: Toward a Responsible yet Realistic Approach Dr. Baum |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 – 12:45 | Certifiability Aspects of Human Oversight of AI Prof. Dr. Hermanns/S. Sterz |
| 12:45 – 13:45 | Lunch break |
| 13:45 – 15:00 | AI Act and beyond - the role of Certification and compliance assesments in Euopean and German law Prof. Dr. Borges |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 – 16:45 | Full Regulation by AI Voluntary Certification? The Brazilian Context Prof. Dr. Maranhão |
| 16:45 – 17:00 | Wrap-up and closing remarks Prof. Dr. Borges / Prof. Dr. Hermanns / Prof. Dr. Maranhão |
| From 18:00 | Informal BBQ and drinks |
6. Saturday, August 2
Excursion Day
| 09:00 – approx. 18:00 | EXCURSION to the picturesque Saarschleife including „Baumwipfelpfad” and the World Heritage Site “Völklinger Hütte” |
7. Sunday, August 3
Day off
8. Monday, August 4
Block 2 – Data Protection & IT Security
Prof. Dr. Dr. Schweighofer/Prof. Sanchez, PhD
| 09:30 – 11:00 Session 1 | Anonymisation & Pseudonymisation in Legal Practice Prof. Dr. Dr. Schweighofer |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 – 12:45 Session 2 | Technical Means of Data Protection Prof. Dr. Dr. Schweighofer |
| 12:45 – 13:45 | Lunch Break |
| 13:45 – 15:15 Session 3 | Multimedia forensics (deepfake detection) Prof. Sanchez, PhD |
| 15:15 – 15:45 | Coffee Break |
| 15:45 – 17:00 Session 4 | Multimedia forensics (deepfake detection) Prof. Sanchez, PhD |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Linear programming optimization model in dentist health care fraud Hsueh |
| From 17:30 | Evening off |
9. Tuesday, August 5
Excursion Day
| 08:30 – approx. 21:30 | EXCURSION to Strasbourg with visit of EU Parliament, Boat Tour, Wine Tasting |
10. Wednesday, August 6
Block 2 – Data Protection & IT Security
Prof. Dr. Reinhardt/Prof. Dr. Sorge
| 09:30 – 11:00 Session 1 | Usable Security Prof. Dr. Reinhardt |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 – 12:30 Session 2 | Usable Security and Privacy: From Theory to Practice Prof. Dr. Reinhardt |
| 12:30 – 13:00 | Compliance by Design: When Interests Collide: Aligning Hig-level Legal Requirements with Processes and Product Design Schulz |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | The Influence of Deepfakes on Cypersecurity and Regulatory Challenges Pölle |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | A South African Legisaltive Review on Artificial Intelligence and Data Protection Prof. Tladi |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 – 17:00 Session 3 | Reading Session: Current Research in cybersecurity Prof. Dr. Sorge |
| 17:00 – 17:20 | Feedback/Q&A Session |
| 17:20 – 18:00 | Official certification |
| From 18:00 | Farewell Party (Graduate Center, Catering) |