Program

Summer School 2026

1. Monday, July 27

Get-together 

From 18:00Guided tour of the university campus, starting at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Georg Borges, and Information on the Summer School

Informal get-together with pizza and drinks

 

2. Tuesday, July 28

Block 1 – Artificial Intelligence & Law
Prof. Dr. Georg Borges / Prof. Dr. Dimitrios Linardatos / Prof. Dr. Christoph Sorge

09.30 – 09.40Opening address by the vice dean of the law faculty
Prof. Dr. Georg Borges
09:40 – 10:00 Introduction
Prof. Dr. Georg Borges / Prof. Dr. Christoph Sorge
10:00 – 11:30 Session 1Introduction to AI regulation. The European AI Act
Prof. Dr. Georg Borges 
11:30 – 11:45Coffee Break 
11:45 – 13:00 Session 2Legal Aspects of Agentic AI
Prof. Dr. Georg Borges
13:00 – 14:00  Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:30 Session 3Conformity Assessment
Prof. Dr. Dimitrios Linardatos
15:30 – 16:00Coffee Break 
16:00 – 17:15 Session 4Certification of AI Systems
Prof. Dr. Dimitrios Linardatos
From 18:00Guided walking tour of Saarbrücken starting at the Saarbrücken town hall (Rathaus) 

 

3. Wednesday, July 29

Block 1 – Artificial Intelligence & Law /- Data, Privacy, IT Security
Prof. Dr. Christoph Sorge / Prof. Dr. Georg Borges / Rafael Campedelli Andrade

09:30 – 11:00 Session 1The Use and Regulation of Generative AI in the Brazilian Judiciary: Potentials and Risks
Rafael Campedelli Andrade
11:00 – 11:15Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:45 Session 2 Liability for AI
Prof. Dr. Georg Borges
12:45 – 13:45 Lunch Break
13:45 – 15:15 Session 3Data Availability and Portability
Prof. Dr. Christoph Sorge
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 – 17:15 Session 4Security and Privacy for AI
Prof. Dr. Christoph Sorge
17:15 – 17:40AI-based AML Systems and the Case for High-Risk Designation
Lydia Etienne
17:40 – 18:05The Illusion of Consistency: Examining a Legal Application of Generative AI
Dr. Vivien Kata Kardos
From 18:05Evening off

 

4. Thursday, July 30

Block 2 – Data Privacy, IT-Security
Prof. Dr. Christoph Sorge / Prof. Dr. Felix Freiling

09:30 – 11:00 Session 1IT Forensics
Prof. Dr. Felix Freiling
11:00 – 11:15Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:30 Session 2 IT Forensics
Prof. Dr. Felix Freiling
12:30 - 13:30Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:00 Session 3IT Forensics
Prof. Dr. Felix Freiling
From 15:00EXCURSION (Visit of Bergwerk Velsen) 

 

5. Friday, July 31 - Interdisciplinary Workshop “Legal work with AI”

09:30 – 09:45Welcome address and Introduction
Dr. Anke Morsch, EDV-Gerichtstag
Prof. Dr. Georg Borges, Saarland University
  
09:45 –11:00Legal Work with AI between Technical Possibilities and Legal Limits
Oleksandr Kolomiyets / Ulrich Süß, SINC GmbH
11:00 – 11:30Coffee break
11:30 – 12:30The Use and Regulation of Generative AI in the Brazilian Judiciary: Potentials and Risks
Rafael Campedelli Andrade, Tribunal de Justiça do Estado de São Paulo
12:30 – 13:30Lunch break
13:30 – 15:00Legal Education and AI
Prof. Dr. Georg Borges, Saarland University
15:00 – 15:30Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:45From Theory to Practice: Harvey AI as a Tool in Modern Legal Work
Tamara Marx, Ashurst Perkins Coie
16:45 – 17:00Wrap-up and closing remarks
Prof. Dr. Georg Borges / Prof. Dr. Christoph Sorge,
Saarland University
From 18:00Informal BBQ and drinks

 

 

6. Saturday, August 1

Excursion Day

09:00 – approx. 18:00EXCURSION to the picturesque Saarschleife including „Baumwipfelpfad” and the World Heritage Site “Völklinger Hütte”

 

 

7. Sunday, August 2 

Day off

 

8. Monday, August 3

Block 3 – Legal Tech
Prof. Dr.  Holger Hermanns / Till Elborg

09:30 – 11:00 Session 1Contemporary Artificial Intelligence: Core Concepts and Scientific Foundations
Prof. Dr. Holger Hermanns
11:00 – 11:15Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:45 Session 2 Contemporary Artificial Intelligence: Human Oversight and Control
Prof. Dr. Holger Hermanns
12:45 – 13:45 Lunch Break
13:45 – 15:00 Session 3Examples of Algorithms, Evolution and Practical Use of AI in Legal Text Analysis
Till Elborg
15:00 – 15:30Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00 Session 4Recent Use Cases of AI within the Legal Domain in Germany
Till Elborg
17:00 – 17:25N.N.
17:25 – 17:50Deepfakes and Copyright: Rethinking Authorship and Liability in AI-Generated Content
Kimaya Kaustubh Karanjkar
From 17:50Evening off

 

 

9. Tuesday, August 4

Excursion Day 

08:30 – approx. 21:30Excursion to Strasbourg with visit of EU Parliament, Boat Tour, Wine Tasting

 

10. Wednesday, August 5

Block 3 – Legal Tech
Prof. Dr. Burkhard Schafer / Prof. Ken Satoh

09:30 – 11:00 Session 1Legal Tech - new opportunities and old dangers
Prof. Dr. Burkhard Schafer
11:00 – 11:15Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:45 Session 2 Blockchain technology and the supply chain: from conflict diamonds to artistic work
Prof. Dr. Burkhard Schafer
12:45 – 13:45Lunch Break
13:45 – 15:15 Session 3Neuro-Symbolic Legal Reasoning
Prof. Ken Satoh
15:15 – 15:45Coffee Break
15:45 – 16:10
 		Self-Defence Against Cyber Attacks: Assessing the International Legal Framework in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Ezra Bozkurt
16:10 – 16:35State-Sponsored Survellance Infrastructure and the Limits of EU Legal-Accountability
Kanun Dhawan
16:35 – 17:00Weaponisation of Cyber Crimes Law to Restrict and Legitimise Human Rights Violations through Legislation in Syria
Dr. Yousef Razouk
17:00 – 17:15Break
17:15 – 17:40 Session 4Feedback / Q & A Session
17:40 – 18:00Official Certification
From 18:00Farewell Party (Graduate Center, Catering)