Prof. Dr. Dr. Eric Hilgendorf
fmr. Member of bidt's Board of Directors, Chair of the Department of Criminal Law, Criminal Justice, Legal Theory, Information and Computer Science Law | Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Eric Hilgendorf was a member of bidt’s Board of Directors. He is Chair of the Department of Criminal Law, Criminal Justice, Legal Theory, Information and Computer Science Law at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. Hilgendorf, who was educated in philosophy and law, has been working for years on ethical and legal issues of digitalisation and technology regulation, also and especially in an international context. His main areas of interest are the law of autonomous driving and digitalisation in medicine.
Thinking like a …
Content: Interdisciplinary work is hard: scientists from other disciplines have different problems, use different terminology, pursue different pathways to a solution and have different criteria for what makes a good solution.
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.
FAZ guest article about the language AI ChatGPT
In a guest article in the FAZ, Alexander Pretschner, Eric Hilgendorf, Ute Schmid and Hannah Schmid-Petri explore the question of what follows from the language AI ChatGPT.
Data sovereignty
In its literal sense, data sovereignty means control over data as well as data collection, storage and processing. The concept of data sovereignty is not synonymous with the term data protection.
Cybercrime
All crimes committed by means of modern IT are called cybercrime. They are committed over a distance and easily cross national borders, making prosecution more difficult.
On the relation of legislation and ethics in digitalisation
The project undertook an ethical and legal assessment of legal policy projects in the field of digitalisation.
Capturing the dynamics of digital transformation
The lawyer Eric Hilgendorf examines the extent to which technical developments need to be re-regulated in the course of the digital transformation. Often, the current rules would suffice.