Institute for Legal Informatics (Hanover)
The Institute for Legal Informatics (IRI) is an institute of the Law Faculty of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover .
The IRI was headed by Professor Nikolaus Forgó until 2017 and previously together with Axel Metzger . He also includes emeritus Wolfgang Kilian and honorary professors Wolfgang G. Büchner and Benno Heussen . Around forty other people are also employed at the IRI. It is located on the 8th floor of the former administration building of Continental AG on Königsworther Platz in Hanover .
Origin and tasks of the IRI
With the development of information technology since the middle of the 20th century, completely new problems arose that could not be adequately solved within the conventional structures, working methods and decision-making processes in law. At the same time, the construction of databases and the use of electronic data processing in legal practice opened up new areas of application for the use of computers. The analysis and assessment of the prerequisites, applications and consequences of information technology in law required interdisciplinary and cross-border cooperation between lawyers, computer scientists and economists. This came about in several industrialized countries under the name legal informatique ( droit informatique ; informatica giuridica ; informatica y derecho ; computers and law ). Legal informatics is an applied informatics , which - similar to medical informatics and business informatics - should theoretically and practically capture the upheavals caused by information technology in the respective subject.
The institute is the oldest of its kind at a German university. It was approved in 1983 by the Lower Saxony Minister for Science and Art as the successor to the "Research Center for Information Technology", which had already existed since 1978 (Decree of the Lower Saxony Minister for Science and Art of June 6, 1983 - 1012 - 152 - 4 - 15).
Recommendation No. R (92) 15 on "Teaching, Research and Training in the Field of Computers and Law" by the Council of Europe's Council of Ministers in 1992 gave new impulses for teaching in the field of legal informatics .
In addition to its research focus, the institute offers a postgraduate law master’s course lasting one year. In the European Legal Informatics Study Program - EULISP for short - lecturers from the institute and from practice impart in-depth knowledge of legal informatics .
Furthermore, a bachelor's degree with a focus on legal informatics and intellectual property law (LL.B. IT / IP law) has been offered since 2011, under the direction of Christian Heinze . This can be taken as a single course or as a double course together with a classic law course on the state examination. The bachelor's degree includes a two-semester stay abroad and is funded by the DAAD .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 41 ″ N , 9 ° 43 ′ 27 ″ E