Am 16. Mai 2019 fand ein Workshop zum Thema Urheberrecht in der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit für Mitarbeiter der WWU statt. Der Workshop entstand aus der Zusammenarbeit des ITM mit der Zentralen Kustodie der WWU. Hintergrund ist die geplante Digitalisierung der umfangreichen wissenschaftlichen Universitätssammlungen. Zu ihnen zählen sowohl die Kunstbestände der Universität als auch Sammlungen aus Fachbereichen wie […]
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Am 28. Mai 2019 hielt Herr Dr. Reiner Münker (Hauptgeschäftsführer der Wettbewerbszentrale und Leiter der Deutschen Landesgruppe LIDC) bei uns am ITM einen spannenden und gut besuchten Vortrag zu den aktuellen Entwicklungen im Wettbewerbsrecht. Herr Dr. Münker studierte Rechtswissenschaften an der Justus-Liebig-Universität in Gießen und absolvierte sein Referendariat in Frankfurt a. M. und Brüssel. Seine […]
Am 8. April 2019 präsentierte Prof. Zhou Lin, leitender Direktor des Intellectual Property Centers der Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, in den Räumen des ITM in Münster unter dem Titel „On the way to Credit“ Hintergründe und tiefergreifende Zusammenhänge zum chinesischen Sozialkreditsystem. Zuletzt war diese Thematik Gegenstand umfassender Presseberichterstattung geworden, nun konnten am ITM einige […]
Much to the regret of the ITM, Prof. Dr. Nikolas Guggenberger, LL.M. (Stanford) from the University of Münster to Yale Law School, USA, in summer 2019. Professor Guggenberger had been working at ITM since 2016 as a junior professor of the RWTÜV Foundation and, with his research focus on blockchain, smart contracts and legal automation, […]
Since the beginning of the semester, the ITM has hosted the visiting professors Prof. Dr. Adrian Künzler (left) and Prof. Zhou Lin (right), whom we would like to welcome to the institute. Both will conduct research at the institute in the 2019 summer semester in order to promote international academic exchange. Prof. Künzler is Assistant […]
After two years of negotiations, the law faculties of Münster and Reykjavík have once again concluded a partnership agreement on student and lecturer exchanges. Since 2002, there has been a partnership via the ITM as part of the Erasmus project. Over the years, a good and very personal cooperation and a lively mutual exchange developed. […]
On February 6, 2019, the certificates for successfully completing the additional training in information, telecommunications and media law and the additional training in intellectual property law were presented at a ceremony. On this occasion, we welcomed Prof. Dr. Mary-Rose McGuire from the University of Osnabrück. Prof. McGuire gave an exciting keynote speech on the highly […]
Mr. Toshihiro Wada, PhD student and research assistant at ITM, talks about Japanese data protection law as part of the Christmas seminar project at TU Dortmund University. In the seminar “Social Media and Law”, organized by Prof. Dr. Tobias Gostomzyk, an Advent calendar was “tinkered”. The aim is to revisit important publications on media and/or […]
On 19.01.2016, Dr. Andreas Christians, Ministerialdirigent and Head of the Public and Private Law Department (front, 5th from left) arrived at the ITM together with the other representatives of the NRW Ministry of Justice, RiOLG Dr. Götz (front, 4th from left), RiLG Liepin (front, 6th from left) and Ms. Schmitz (front, 3rd from right).
High-ranking visitor at the ITM: On August 31, NRW’s Minister of Justice Thomas Kutschaty was a guest at the ITM. The Minister accepted an invitation on the occasion of the recently launched ABIDA project to get an idea of the premises and the work of the institute as a national competence center during an “open […]


