Lecturers
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Dr. Christian Bitsch (Attorney-at-law and Certified Specialist Lawyer for Labor Law) Dr. Christian Bitsch studied law at the University of Würzburg with an additional qualification in European law. In 2011 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the enforceability of information claims under works constitution law, which won the joint science award of the University of Würzburg and the Unterfränkische Gedenkjahrstiftung. After his legal traineeship at Deutsche Bank he worked as a lawyer at different law firms. He is a founding partner of BLUEDEX Labor Law and has been working there since 2017. He is specialized in works constitution and co-determination law, contract law of board members and group labor law as well as in restructuring and post-transaction projects and holds the degree of a specialized layer in Labor Law. He publishes as a co-author in the handbook of labor law forms and in the handbook on partnership law (Verlag C.H. Beck). He is also a lecturer at the Fresenius University of Applied Sciences. He teaches Labor Law 4.0 in our LL.M. program. For further information access the Law firm website. |
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Christian Galetzka, LL.M. (Attorney-at-law Certified Specialist Lawyer for IT Law) Christian Galetzka joined Jun Rechtsanwälte in 2009. He specializes in IT law and data protection law. He completed the postgraduate course "Informationsrecht" (Information Law) at the University of Oldenburg and graduated in 2012 with a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree. Since 2012 he is a certified specialist lawyer for IT law. Mr. Galetzka regularly works and publishes in the areas of copyright and data protection law as well as IT law. He teaches E-Commerce/Consumer Protection in our LL.M. program. For further information access the Law firm website.
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Prof. Dr. Dr. Eric Hilgendorf Academic background: 1990 doctorate (Dr. phil.) with a thesis on "Argumentation in Jurisprudence", 1992 doctorate (Dr. jur.) with a thesis on producer liability under criminal law, both at the University of Tübingen. 1997 Habilitation for the subjects of criminal law, criminal procedural law and philosophy of law with a legal-theoretical/criminal law dogmatic thesis ("Tatsachenaussagen und Werturteile im Strafrecht"). Since 1997 Professor of Criminal Law and Associated Fields at the University of Konstanz, since 2001 Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, Legal Theory, Information Law and Legal Informatics at the University of Würzburg. Research: Numerous third-party funded projects (EU, DFG, BMBF, BMWI, etc.) on IT criminal law and technology law (including data protection law); participation in federal legislative procedures on IT (e.g. on the reform of computer criminal law 2007 and on the reform of the StVG 2017); 2010 foundation of the Würzburg research center "RobotRecht"; initiator and editor of the series "Robotik und Recht" (Robotics and Law) (since 2013, together with Susanne Beck); legal director of the EU project "AdaptIVe" on new forms of mobility; expert analyst of the Goslaer Verkehrsgerichtstag 2015 on legal issues of automated driving; Member of the "Round Table" on automated driving in the BMVI; Member of the Ethics Commission of the BMVI on automated driving ("Dobrindt Commission"), there head of the subcommittee on the "Dilemma Problem"; Member of the Legal Advisory Board of the DVR; Head of the working group "Law and Ethics" in the "Platform Self-learning Systems" of the BMWI (2017/2018). 2018 Appointment as member in the EU High Level Group Artificial Intelligence. Since 2019 Director at the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt), since 2020 Member of the Bavarian AI Council. He teaches Machine Ethics and Robot Law/AI Law in our LL.M. program. For further information access the Chair website. |
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Chan-jo Jun (Attorney-at-law and Certified Specialist Lawyer for IT Law) Chan-jo Jun is the founder of the law firm Jun Rechtsanwälte in Würzburg. He is well known for his commitment against hate crime on the Internet, including lawsuits against Facebook and Twitter, as well as for his many contributions on social media platforms, which educate about “legal nonsense” ("Quatschjura"). In addition to these pro bono activities, his law firm advises on IT and business law, particularly in the area of software licenses. Another focus of his law firm lies on research in the field of legal tech and artificial intelligence and the development of tools for solving legal tasks. In November 2022, Chan-jo Jun was elected by the Bavarian Parliament as a member of the Bavarian Constitutional Court. He teaches Legal Tech in our LL.M. program. For further information access the Law firm website. |
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Dr. Manuel Kellerbauer Dr. Manuel Kellerbauer is a Legal Adviser at the European Commission‘s Legal Service dealing with competition, social affairs and external relation cases. Manuel holds master's degrees from the University of Aix-en-Provence and the University of Tübingen, as well as a PhD from the University of Tübingen. Manuel's previous experience includes four years as an advisor to the Competition Hearing Officers at the European Commission. He publishes widely on EU law related topics, is a co-editor of a Commentary on the EU Treaties (Oxford University Press, 2019) and is an editor of the European Journal of Business Law (EuZW). He teaches Competition Law in the Digital Age in our LL.M. program. For further information access the Europa Institut website. |
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Ulrich Kulke (Attorney-at-law) After his law studies and legal clerkship, Ulrich Kulke worked as a research assistant at the Faculty of Law at the University of Würzburg and as a lecturer for the Hemmer Law Repetitorium throughout Germany, where he still prepares students for their civil law exams. He was admitted to the bar in 2012 and primarily advises companies with regards to contract law as well as business and data protection law. He regularly publishes on topics in the area of civil law and business law. He teaches E-Commerce/Consumer Protection in our LL.M. program. For further information access the Law firm website. |
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Dr. Karin Linhart Dr. Karin Linhart, LL.M. (Duke) is the head of the Würzburg Law Faculty’s “Legal Languages and Foreign Law” department. After her German First and Second State Examination in Law she wrote her doctoral thesis with Professor Dr. Karl Kreuzer on the international unification of law and obtained an LL.M. in US-American Law in the US. She specializes in comparative law as well as Private International Law and International Civil Procedure. She teaches abroad in some of Würzburg’s international partner universities, such as Brno (Czech Republic), Budapest (Hungary), Caen (France), Kikwit, Kinshasa and Lubumbashi (Democratic Republic of Congo) and Pavia (Italy) on a regular basis. Until a few years ago she also taught in San Luis Potosì (Mexico) and Lviv (Ukraine). For further information access the University website. |
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Johannes Partheymüller (Attorney-at-law and Certified Specialist Lawyer for IT Law) Johannes Partheymüller is an attorney at the law firm Jun Rechtsanwälte in Würzburg since 2012 and a certified specialist lawyer for IT law since 2016. In addition to mandates in traditional IT law, he manages several legal tech projects, including the legal and technical development of a contract generator. Since 2022 he has also been managing the state-funded legal-tech research project "Juriskop", within which the law firm is conducting research on legal chatbots in cooperation with the Chair for Artificial Intelligence at the University of Würzburg. He teaches Legal Tech in our LL.M. program. For further information access the Law firm website. |
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Prof. Dr. Tobias Reinbacher Prof. Dr. Tobias Reinbacher is a professor of criminal law, criminal procedure law and media criminal law at JMU Würzburg. He studied law in Frankfurt/Main and English in Mainz. After the First State Exam in the state of Hessen (2000) he moved to Berlin for his legal clerkship and the Second State Exam (2003). He holds a doctor’s degree of Humboldt University Berlin where he completed his dissertation on copyright law and criminal law in 2006 which was awarded with the dissertation prize of the German foundation of law and informatics (DSRI) in 2007. He then qualified as a professor at Humboldt University Berlin in 2014 with a habilitation thesis on European criminal law. Since 2017 he is a fully qualified professor at JMU Würzburg. His research is covers German and European substantial criminal law and criminal procedure law and media law, particularly in the field of digitalization. He teaches Cybercrime I and II in our LL.M. program and is the Program Director. For further information access the Chair website. |
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Prof. Dr. Ingo Scholtes Prof. Dr. Ingo Scholtes is Professor of Machine Learning for Complex Networks at the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. He is also an SNF professor at the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Zurich, where he leads the Data Analytics Group (DAG). He teaches Introduction to Informatics in our LL.M. program. For further information access the Chair website.
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Prof. Dr. Sören Segger-Piening, LL.M. Eur. Prof. Dr. Sören Segger-Piening, LL.M. Eur. has a full professorship at the European Legal Studies Institute for Civil Law, Private International Law and one further subject at the University of Osnabrück. He successfully passed his First State Examination in Law with completion of Complementary Studies in European Law at the University of Würzburg in 2010 and continued his previous work as an undergraduate assistant there as a research assistant at the Chair of Civil Law, European Commercial Law, Private International and Procedural Law as well as Comparative Law (Prof. Dr. Olivier Remien). After successfully passing his Second State Examination in 2015 at the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf and working as a lawyer at Kapellmann Lawyers in Düsseldorf, he returned to the chair of Prof. Dr. Olivier Remien. During this time, he completed his dissertation on comparative procedural law where he examined the legal institution of amicus curiae in international commercial law and his Masters degree in European Law in 2017 with a thesis on the free movement of goods. From 2018 to 2024, Prof. Dr. Sören Segger-Piening was a Akademischer Rat a.Z. at the University of Würzburg and completed the habilitation with his thesis in construction contract law in July 2024. He teaches Private International Law in our LL.M. program. For further information access the website of the professorship of the university of Osnabrück. |
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Jacqueline Sittig, Dipl. iur. (Univ.) Jacqueline Sittig, Dipl. iur. (Univ.), studied law at the University of Würzburg and at the University of Bristol in England and successfully passed the First Law Examination in November 2020. After her studies, she initially worked as a research assistant at the University of Würzburg. Since February 2021, she has been doing her doctorate at the University of Würzburg with a research focus on gender-based violence against women and female-read persons, with a focus on image-based sexualised violence using artificial intelligence. She teaches E-Commerce/Consumer Protection in our LL.M. program. |
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Prof. Dr. Olaf Sosnitza Born in 1963, Professor Dr. Olaf Sosnitza studied Law and Economics at the University of Bayreuth. After the second state examination he did a doctor’s degree with a doctoral work on the law of unfair competition. From 1994 to 1997 Professor Sosnitza worked as an attorney for the international law firm Deringer Tessin Herrmann Sedemund (now Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer), Cologne, focussing on Competition Law, Media Law and Intellectual Property. In 2001 he qualified as an university lecturer (Habilitation) at the University of Bayreuth. He holds the chair for Civil Law, Commercial Law and Intellectual Property at the Law Faculty of the Julius-Maximilians-University Wuerzburg since the winter semester 2002/2003. From 2005 until 2008 he was also a judge at the Appellate Court of Nuremberg. Olaf Sosnitza is specialized in Intellectual Property Law as well as in Unfair Competition Law, E-Commerce Law and Food Law. He teaches IP Law in our LL.M. program. For further information access the Chair website. |
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Prof. Dr. Christoph Teichmann Prof. Dr. Christoph Teichmann teaches civil law, German and European commercial and company Law at JMU Wuerzburg. He graduated at the University of Heidelberg in 1992 where he also obtained his doctoral degree. He then worked, after his legal clerkship, for two years as a lawyer for a law firm in Frankfurt, Germany. In 1998 he returned to Heidelberg where he wrote his habilitation thesis (Binnenmarktkonformes Gesellschaftsrecht). He is co-editor of ZGR (Zeitschrift für Unternehmens- und Gesellschaftsrecht) and ECFR (European Company and Financial Law Review). He advised the German Ministry of Justice and the European Commission in the preparation of the EU Directive on digitization in company law. Recent research focusses on digital incorporation of companies and digital shareholder meetings. He teaches Company Law and Digitalization in our LL.M. program. For further information access the Chair website. |
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Dr. Paul Vogel (Attorney-at-law) Paul Vogel studied law at the University of Würzburg from 2012 to 2017. After graduating, he worked as a research assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Dr. Eric Hilgendorf, focusing on legal challenges of digitalization, in particular on data protection law. While working at the chair, he completed his dissertation on "Artificial Intelligence and Data Protection. Compatibility of opaque systems with applicable data protection law and potential regulatory approaches", with which he was awarded his doctorate (Dr. iur.) in 2021. He completed his legal clerkship from 2020 to 2022 with stages in Frankfurt/Main and New York. Since 2022, he is working as a lawyer at the Munich office of the international law firm Noerr, where he focuses on advising clients on data protection law matters. He teaches Fundamental Rights and Data Protection in our LL.M. program. For further information access the Law firm website. |
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Prof. Dr. Wiebke Voß-Baeder WIebke Voß was appointed junior professor for private law at the University of Würzburg in November 2021, previously having worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law in Luxembourg. In addition to her teaching activities at the University of Würzburg, she is currently pursuing her postdoctoral studies on German and European procedural law at the University of Heidelberg. Her other research interests include international civil procedural law, private law (especially land law and consumer law) as well as private international law. She teaches Procedure Law in our LL.M. program. For further information access the Professorship website. |
