Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Sorge

Professor for Legal Informatics
Saarland University
Campus A5.4
Phone: 0681 302 5120 (Assistant)
Email: christoph.sorge(at)uni-saarland.de
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Office Hours: By appointment
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Christoph Sorge is
- Professor at Faculty R (Faculty of Law) as well as co-opted member of Faculty MI (Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics) at Saarland University
- Director of the Institute of Legal Informatics at Saarland University (among colleagues Borges, Cole, Cossalter, Herberger, Weth).
- Associated member of CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
- Senior Fellow of the German Research Institute for Public Administration (FÖV)
- Board member of Deutscher EDV-Gerichtstags e.V.
- Member of Junges Forum: Technikwissenschaften (JF:TEC)
- Member of the Research Advisory Board of the Institute for European Media Law (EMR) e.V.
- Chairman of Zentrum für Recht und Digitalisierung
- One of three editors-in-chief for “Artificial Intelligence and Law (Künstliche Intelligenz und Recht)”
Research Interests
- Data protection through technology (Privacy by Design) and law
- LegalTech
- Questions of Information law connected to security and privacy
- AI and law
- Machine Learning on law documents
- Privacy by Design and law in AI
Short CV
since 2014 | Professor of Legal Informatics, former juris Endowed Professorship of Legal Informatics, at Saarland University |
2010-2014 | Juniorprofessor (assistant professor) at the Department of Computer Science, University of Paderborn. Among other activities:
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2008-2010 | Research Scientist, NEC Laboratories Europe, Heidelberg Research on IT security and privacy in EU funded and in-house projects. |
2004-2007 | Ph.D. in Computer Science at Universität Karlsruhe (TH), now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Scholarship holder in the Research Training Group on Information Management and Market Engineering. Research assistant at Institute of Telematics at Universität Karlsruhe (TH). Interdisciplinary doctorate under the supervision of Prof. Dr. rer.nat Martina Zitterbart and Prof. Dr. iur. Thomas Dreier, M.C.J. |
1999-2004 | Student of Information Engineering and Management at Universität Karlsruhe (TH). Awards: Faculty Award of the Department of Economics and Management at Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Graduate Award of the German Foundation for Law and Computer Science |
Expert opinion and expert services
among others for:
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Society)
- European Research Council
- Baden-Württemberg-Stiftung (Baden-Württemberg Foundation)
- DAAD
- various Federal Ministries (BMBF, BMJ,...)
Expert witness for the German federal parliament und the state parliaments of Saarland and Thuringia.
Teaching awards
- CS Student council's "busy beaver award" for best teaching, Saarland University, summer 2024, for the lecture “Law of Cyber Security - Privacy Aspects”
- State University Teaching Award of the Saarland 2014, awarded in March 2015, for the undergraduate seminar "hacking" (jointly with Prof. Dr. Michael Backes and staff of both research groups)
- CS Student council's "busy beaver award" for best teaching, Saarland University, summer 2014, also for the undergraduate seminar "hacking" (jointly with Prof. Dr. Michael Backes and staff of both research groups)
- Advancement Award for Innovation and Quality in Teaching, University of Paderborn, 2011