Prof. Dr. Dirk Heckmann
Member of bidt's Board of Directors | Chair of Law and Security in Digital Transformation, Technical University of Munich
Dirk Heckmann is a member of bidt’s Board of Directors. He is Chair of Law and Security in Digital Transformation at the Technical University of Munich. For 25 years, his interdisciplinary research has focused on digital education, digital administration and digitisation in healthcare. The constitutional law expert, who also serves as a constitutional judge at the Bavarian Constitutional Court, regularly advises parliaments and governments, for example, as a member of the Federal Government’s Data Ethics Commission or as an expert at the Chancellor’s National IT Summit (Digital Summit). He is the author of the German standard work on digitalisation law, the juris Praxiskommentar Internetrecht, which he has edited with Anne Paschke (TU Braunschweig) since the 7th edition in 2021. In 2020, he founded the TUM Center for Digital Public Services to make public interest-oriented digitisation legally secure.
Data use for medicine, administration and justice
On the occasion of the For..Net Symposium 2023, Dirk Heckmann talks about why the use of data is so relevant for medicine, administration and justice.
FAZ guest article about ChatGPT in exam situations
In their guest article in the FAZ, Alexander Pretschner, Jan Gogoll and Dirk Heckmann explore the question of what influence ChatGPT will have on examinations in educational institutions.
Hot topics of digital transformation in 2023
Our experts provide an assessment of which topics will be relevant for digital transformation in 2023 and why.
Challenges of regulating digital communication platforms
What are society’s requirements for regulating video platforms? To answer this question, the project is aiming to develop evidence-based regulatory policy options.
Digital transformation in dialogue: User-friendliness as a legal principle in the Bavarian Digital Act
In his guest article, bidt director Dirk Heckmann discusses the aspect of “digital transformation in dialogue” from a jurisprudential perspective and addresses user-friendliness as a legal principle in the Bavarian…
Copyright in the digital age: legislation in the Context of conflicting interests
The blog post traces which interest groups and various stakeholders were able to influence the legislative process in terms of their interests and positions.