Jürgen Taeger
Jürgen Taeger (born June 5, 1954 in Hanover ) is a German legal scholar. He holds the chair for civil law, commercial and business law at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg . Taeger researches and teaches with a focus on questions of business law and information law . He is married and has three grown children.
Professional background
Jürgen Taeger studied law and social sciences at the Free University of Berlin and at the University of Hanover . He received his doctorate in 1987 at the University of Hanover on "The disclosure of trade and business secrets" . The University of Hanover completed his habilitation in 1995 with a thesis on "Non-contractual liability for faulty computer programs" and awarded him the venia legendi for civil law , commercial and labor law as well Legal informatics .
After holding a professorship from 1991 to 1993 at the University of Lüneburg and substituting professorships from 1994 to 1996 in Hanover, Frankfurt / O. and Greifswald he took in 1996 a call to the chair of civil law, commercial and business law and legal computer science at the University of Oldenburg. Taeger was Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Law from 2001 to 2002 and 2004 . From 2002 to 2003 he was vice dean. In the academic self-administration he worked from 2003 to 2005 and from 2011 to 2015 in the Senate of the University, from 2003 to 2009 in the Faculty Council, from 2009 to 2019 in the Department Council for Economics and Law and as Deputy. Member of the ethics committee of the university.
From 2002 to 2019 he was director of the Institute of Law. From 2003 to 2009 he was also director of the University's Center for Lifelong Learning (C3L), the scientific center for research, development and implementation of continuing education programs and part-time courses. At C3L, he heads the legal, part-time master’s course "Information Law (LL.M.)". In 2017 he was elected director of the interdisciplinary scientific center for information society law (ZRI).
The University of Babeş-Bolyai from Cluj-Napoca (Romania) awarded him the title of 'Professor honoris causa' in 2019.
Taeger has been Head of Studies at the Administration and Business Academy Oldenburg eV ( VWA ) since 2011 . Taeger has been an Of Counsel at DLA Piper since 2019 . In June 2020 Taeger was appointed to the expert advisory board on employee data protection of the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS).
Research priorities
The focus of his research lies in the areas of commercial and corporate law as well as legal informatics and information law, in particular eCommerce law, internet law and data protection law. Since 2019, he has been leading the interdisciplinary project HAPTIK (digitization of bills of lading using blockchain technology) in third-party funded projects. In the BMBF- funded project 'AI platform for developing and testing autonomous vehicles', he was responsible for data protection and antitrust issues. He dealt with legal questions of eCommerce in the DFG project "Legal Security in Mobile Commerce (McLaw)", with the implementation of electronic courses in the BMBF project "Legal Informatics Online (RION)" and in the MWK project "Multimediales online basic course (MoGWi) ", with" Legal Issues of eLearning (el.la) "and" Legal Issues of Virtual Worlds ", a project funded by the Bremer Wertpapierbörse Foundation. He led the BMBF-funded project 'Chances and Risks of Smart Cams in Public Spaces' (2015-2017) and participated in the Volkswagen Foundation's project 'Sustainable fulfillment of mobility needs in rural areas (NeMO)' (2016-2019).
He is involved in the graduate college SEAS (Social and cultural Embeddedness of Automated cyber-physical Systems).
Memberships
- Taeger is one of the founders of the German Foundation for Law and Informatics (DSRI), which was initiated by the German Society for Law and Informatics ( DGRI ) and founded in 2004, and has been Chairman of the Board since its inception. The tasks of the foundation include the promotion of university and professional training of lawyers and computer scientists who deal with questions of information law and legal informatics. The DSRI organizes the Autumn Academy every year, an important conference on IT and information law. The foundation annually awards a science award and a graduate award for work in the field of legal informatics and information law.
- Member of the civil law teachers' association , the Society for Computer Science ( GI ) and the German Society for Law and Computer Science, of which he was a board member from 2004 to 2006.
- Since 2002 member of the Institute for Computer Science OFFIS eV and from 2005 to 2008 Head of Multimedia and Internet Technologies , since 2016 member of the Board of Directors.
- Since 2007 member of the scientific advisory board of the Society for Data Protection and Data Security eV ( GDD ).
- Since 2009 member of the board of the Oldenburgische Landesbank Foundation .
- Chairman of the board of the Wolfgang Gewecke Foundation for the protection of animals and species.
- Since 2006 board member of the Ulrich Bernath Foundation for Distance Learning Research.
Editorships
Taeger is co-editor of the journal "Recht der Datenverarbeitung ( RDV ) and a member of the scientific advisory board of the journals Kommunikation & Recht ( K&R ), Zeitschrift für Datenschutz ( ZD ), Datenschutz und Datensicherheit ( DuD ) and Telemedicus. He is co-editor of series of publications at OlWIR Verlag and in Nomos Verlag . He publishes the commentary on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the BDSG at Verlag Recht und Wirtschaft . He is the publisher of the loose-leaf work 'Computerrechts-Handbuch' at Verlag CH Beck with Jan Pohle.
Web links
- Literature by and about Jürgen Taeger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website from Jürgen Taeger at the University of Oldenburg
- DLA Piper website
Individual evidence
- ^ People - Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. Retrieved August 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Mr. Jürgen Taeger - Professor Honoris Causa The Babeș-Bolyai University ::. Retrieved August 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Jürgen Taeger appointed to expert advisory board. University of Oldenburg , June 12, 2020, accessed on August 15, 2020 (press release 105/20).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Taeger, Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th June 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |