Conferences

The symposium on 10.07.2024 was dedicated to the following questions: Wherever you look: Modern lawyers are confronted with IT issues on a massive scale. The current debates surrounding artificial intelligence are at best the tip of the iceberg. So how should law deal with the interface with IT? ...

Artificial intelligence is on everyone's lips. Although the autonomous image and text generators currently available on the market have obvious weaknesses, the disruptive power of generative AI is beyond question. Appropriate regulations are currently being debated both nationally and internationall...

The digital revolution is challenging the traditional economic and social order. While jurisprudence has responded to this development with a multitude of regulatory ideas, the conference will pose the question as to what standards this regulation should be based on. Of particular interest: How can ...

In private law, property rights are dealt with in two different, largely separate discourses. There is hardly any dialog between intellectual property law and general civil law. Above all, the findings relating to the allocation of intangible goods are not sufficiently utilized for the scope of prop...

The granting of an injunction is a remedy that is available to patent holders to enforce their rights. In many EU Member States, injunctions are conceived as default remedies. However, granting an injunction irrespective of the particular facts of the case can lead to hardship for stakeholders and t...

Remedies have not yet drawn special attention in German private law. In fact, scholars perceive remedies merely as a ‘legal by-product’ to tort law, contract law or IP law. On the contrary, the law of remedies is considered a ‘stand-alone’ research area in the UK and the US. For instance, lectures f...

After German fair trading law recently underwent far-reaching changes due to European consumer protection requirements, the protection of confidential know-how and confidential business information is now being harmonized. The Confidentiality Directive (EU) 2016/943 must be transposed into national ...