The Institute of Legal Informatics is one of Germany’s leading research institutions in the area of IT-Law and Legal Informatics. At the Institute, our research and teaching covers the entire field of IT-Law and Legal Informatics. The focus of our work is on the legal and technical aspects of IT-Security and Data Protection as well as on electronic legal proceedings (eJustice) and electronic administration (eGovernment), smart Energy and, not least, the legal questions raised by autonomous systems.

The Institute is particularly committed to, and engaged in, the training and education of young lawyers in the fields of IT-Law and Legal Informatics and offers students the opportunity to study the elective subject »IT-Law and Legal Informatics« as part of their legal studies at the Saarland University. The Institute also recently introduced a new study programme which leads to the award of a certificate in »IT-Law and Legal Informatics« and which was run for the first time in the winter semester 2016/2017. The Institute is responsible for the information portal »IT-Law Karriere« (it-recht-karriere.de, only available in German) which includes a job exchange specifically for IT-Law related jobs (jobs.it-recht-karriere.de, only available German).