The process of digital transformation generates a number of ethical and legal questions that are also the subject of already extant and still to be formulated legal rules. The research project identifies and classifies the arguments put forth in this context in the legislative process in order to subject them to a comprehensive ethical and legal evaluation. In addition to the crystallisation of concrete ethical and legal recommendations, the aim is to identify any gaps in the arguments in order to help rationalise the debate. Furthermore, the project intends to identify the preconditions for successful interdisciplinary cooperation between law-making, legal studies and ethics in the field of digitalisation.

The main focus of the project lies on the subjects of digitised (Internet-supported) communication and digitised medicine and on questions of responsibility and liability in human-machine collaborations.