Category Archives: Announcements

Competition Law Doctoral Forum Amsterdam 2025

Am vergangenen Freitag fand das „Competition Law Doctoral Forum“ von Prof. Thibault Schrepel an der VU Amsterdam statt. Neben vielen wertvollen Gesprächen und dem Austausch über die wettbewerbsrechtlichen Promotionsvorhaben von Forschenden in den Niederlanden, hat vor allem der Vortrag von Martijn Snoep, dem Präsidenten der niederländischen Wettbewerbsbehörde, besonders gut gefallen. Herr Snoep hat viele spannende […]

Chatgpt and prosecution file processing

We continue! After developing and expanding the legal mentor at ChatGPT, we are now moving on to trainee lawyer training. We have created a new bot for prosecutor file processing. Many thanks to Ref. Stefanie Peters for her help. Since my experience as a public prosecutor is more than 30 years old, I would be […]

New chatbot RechtsMentor

We’re done !!! I have now dedicated myself to the further development of the new AI project. After extensive brainstorming and numerous considerations (also by the tireless ITM employee Merlin Rombach – thank you, thank you, thank you), I can now present the first iteration of the RechtsMentor – ITM GPT (link below). In my […]

Anniversary celebration 25 years of the Intellectual Property Research Center

Yesterday, a large audience attended the event celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Intellectual Property Research Center at the University of Münster. The keynote speaker was former ITM doctoral candidate and former presiding judge at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court, Professor Dr. Thomas Kühnen, who gave a fascinating presentation on the relationship between antitrust law […]

Successful “Best of ITM” seminar

  The “Best of ITM” experiment has come to a successful end. In their seminar papers, 10 students had to read, review and check the topicality of old ITM doctoral theses. The enthusiastic reviewers selected from a pool of more than 200 dissertations on blockchain law, consumer and data protection on the internet, copyright law […]

Successful doctoral examination: Lars Rieck defends his dissertation on tattoos and copyright with top marks

On Monday, attorney Lars Rieck (Hamburg) successfully defended his dissertation on the subject of “Tattooing and copyright law”. The examination took place at Chemnitz University of Technology under the chairmanship of Professor Dr. Dagmar Gesmann-Nuissl and Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoeren and consisted of a disputation and two short presentations in which he convincingly presented his […]

News at the halfway point of LDE

Who would have thought it? Unforeseen success of the new additional Law of the Digital Economy course! We started with formal commitments from five universities: The new additional training course on legal issues in European and international data law slowly took off in 2024. It soon became clear that we had reached the limits of […]