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From 27 July to 5 August, the Institute for Legal Informatics will host the Summer School IT Law and Legal Informatics 2026, a unique opportunity to deep dive into the legal challenges of the digital age.

The topics covered this year are:

• Artificial Intelligence & Law
• Data & Privacy
• IT Security & Legal Tech.

A team from the Institute of Legal Informatics led by Prof. Dr. Georg Borges received the Best Paper Award at the International Legal Informatics Symposium (IRI§2026) for their paper “Potentials of AI Certification. The CARAT Project”. 

During the winter term 2025/26, the lecture series „Datenschutz in der Praxis“ on data protection will take place unter the direction of Prof. Dr. Georg Borges. Lectures are online every Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m. The lectures are open to the public and free of charge. However, all lectures are in German language.

Access and other information see here.

From July 28 to August 6, the Institute for Legal Informatics will organize the international Summer School IT Law and Legal Informatics, a unique opportunity to address the legal challenges of the digital age.
This year's international program brings together researchers and practitioners from all over the world as well as advanced students. This year's topics are:

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On Monday, 24 March, 2025 from 4 to 6 p.m., the Institute of Legal Informatics of Saarland University will hold a public workshop on the integration of legal norms into autonomous AI systems.

Prof. Dr. Georg Borges from Saarland University and Prof. Ken Satoh from the Center for Juris-Informatics in Tokyo will present their research on the topic.

The event can be attended free of charge on site or online.

On Wednesday, 12 March, 2025, Prof. Dr. Georg Borges will give a public lecture on “The Right to Explanation in the AI Act” at the Center for Juris-Informatics in Tokyo.

The lecture will be held in English and will be publicly available via Zoom.

On 26 Feb 2025, the international Forum for Responsible AI, presented by the Brazilian Lawgorithm Association, will be streamed live on YouTube at 13:00 CET. The following speakers will present and discuss advances and challenges of Artificial Intelligence:

• Prof Dr Tarik Lakssimi - University Lumière Lyon 2 (France)
• Prof Dr Georg Borges - Saarland University (Germany)
• Dr Costanza Di Francesco Maesa - University of Florence (Italy)
• Prof. Dr Ana Maria de Oliveira Nusdeo - USP Faculty of Law (Brazil)

In cooperation with the College of Law and Politics of the National Chung Hsing University (NCHU) in Taiwan the Saarbrücken Institute of Legal Informatics will hold a series of lectures entitled “Legal Aspects of AI: A Comparative Analysis of EU and Taiwan AI Law” on 10 December 2024. For more information and free of charge access klick here.

Prof. Dr. Borges received the Outstanding Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Autonomous and Trusted Computing (ATC 2024) for his paper “The Right to Explanation in the European AI Act”.

The paper is based on research in the Explainable Intelligent Systems (EIS) project.

Access the materials of our online workshop of 24 October for free and learn about recent topics and developments in the regulation of artificial intelligence from a comparative law perspective.