The Institute of Legal Informatics
© Universität des Saarlandes
The Institute of Legal Informatics is one of the leading German research institutions in the field of IT law and legal informatics, offering research and education for the entire spectrum of IT law and legal informatics with focus on legal and technical aspects of IT security and data protection as well as electronic court proceedings (eJustice) and electronic administration (eGovernment), smart energy and legal issues of autonomous systems.
The institute is particularly committed to training young lawyers in the field of IT law and legal informatics, for example offering lectures in the specialisation area “IT law and legal informatics” for law students at Saarland University or organizing the Certificate course “IT Law and Legal Informatics” open to students of all kinds including guest listeners.
The institute operates a separate website with information about career paths in IT law called “IT-Recht Karriere” (it-recht-karriere.de, in German only), which also provides a special job exchange for IT law (jobs.it-recht-karriere.de).
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Explainable Intelligent Systems
How can the requirement for transparency and explainability of intelligent systems be implemented legally and technically? Prof. Borges’ team is working on this question in “EIS”, a project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.
Legal-Testbed
The chair of Prof. Borges is developing solutions for Industry 4.0 through the project "Recht-Testbed Industrie 4.0" funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi).