Law Science and Technology

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‘Rule of Law’ driven development and deployment of DLT Akanksha's PhD research focuses on how the function and role of ‘Rule of Law’ can influence, intervene and guide in setting design goals, choices, and standardizations to configure Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) at different layers.
Project leader(s)
Akanksha Bisoyi
Project type
phd-project
Themes
Rule of Law; Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT)
Basics in Data Law and Governance (BDLG) Today, data protection law has become an important and indispensable prerequisite for activities in organizations. The aim of the project is to train students and researchers at TUM in the confident and socially responsible use of data, by creating a comprehensive asynchronous online course in English, that provides essential legal knowledge on important aspects of data governance.
Project leader(s)
Akanksha Bisoyi
Themes
Data Law; Data protection
REMODE: A participatory risk governance method to re-innovate content moderation The REMODE project will establish ways to integrate the user in the assessment and design of content moderation on social media platforms.
Project leader(s)
Prof. Dr. Christian Djeffal, Daan Herpers MA
Period
01.07.2022-31.06.2023
past
Themes
Content Moderation; Digitization; Applied Ethics; Standardization; Participatory Design.
NLawP: Natural Language Processing and Legal Tech The research team will inquire into how data governance can enable a responsible and efficient adoption of Natural Language Processing. The project will allow research into this emerging field of AI with a view to innovation, adoption, responsible uses, and infrastructures. The project will also look into the following steps concerning a sustainable data infrastructure for the legal sector and potential stakeholders’ innovations and imaginaries.
Project leader(s)
Prof. Dr. Christian Djeffal; Prof. Dr. Florian Matthes
Themes
AI language technologies; Legal Tech; AI Technologies in the Legal Field; Natural Language Processing
QRONITON – Privacy Preserving Processing of Personal Data (P4D) to Manage the COVID-19 Pandemic and Future Crises The project addresses the goal of privacy-preserving contact tracing, particularly in work environments from a technical perspective including law by design and critical design approaches.
Project leader(s)
Prof. Dr. Gerog Carle, Prof. Dr. Marc-Oliver Pahl
Period
01.09.2020 – 01.06.2021
past
Funding institution
German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future
German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future german-french-academy-for-the-industry-of-the-future
Project type
third-party-funded-project
Themes
COVID-19; QRONITON; Law by design; Critical Design; Privacy Preservation; Contact Tracing
Rule of Law, Legitimacy and Effective COVID-19 Control Technologies Rule of Law, Legitimacy and Effective COVID-19 Control Technologies
Project leader(s)
Prof. Dr. Christian Djeffal, Prof. Dr. Mark Findlay
Period
01.08.2020 – 01.08.2021
past
Funding institution
Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (IEAI), TUM
Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (IEAI), TUM institute-for-ethics-in-artificial-intelligence-ieai-tum
Project type
third-party-funded-project
Themes
COVID-19; Rule Of Law; Law by design; Critical Design; Privacy Preservation; Contact Tracing, Control Technologies
Coding Public Value: Public Service Media and Software for the Common Good The project Coding Public Value focuses on the development and evaluation of methods for responsible software engineering for the common good and corresponding institutional, political and organizational frameworks for public-service media platforms. How can legal, political and user-oriented requirements of public media be translated into requirements, methods and quality assessment practices for the engineering of software and which institutional, political, and organizational requirements have to be implemented in order to operate public service media platforms on the foundation of such public service-oriented software engineering? The project combines Science & Technology Studies, Media and Communication Research, Legal Studies, and empirical Software Engineering in an interdisciplinary collaboration.
Project leader(s)
Prof. Dr. Christian Djeffal, PD Dr. Jan-Hendrik Passoth, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Daniel Mendez, Prof. Dr. Hans-Bernd Brosius, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz
Period
01.01.2020 - 31.03.2023
past
Funding institution
bidt
bidt bidt
Project type
third-party-funded-project
Themes
Public Service Media, Software Engineering, Platforms, Infrastructures
Developing a Digital Toolkit to Enhance the Communication of Scientific Health Claims The project develops a digital toolkit (Web App/App) for communicating health claims in cooperation with colleagues from linguistics and and public health organizations. We follow the development ethnographically and develop formats and practices of responsible software design and the participation stakeholders and concerned publics.
Project leader(s)
Prof. Dr. Rodney Jones (University of Reading), Jaed Kahn (FoodMaestro), Bridget Benelam (British Nutrition Foundation), Prof. Dr. Christian Djeffal
Period
01.2020 - 12.2021
past
Funding institution
EU EIT Food
EU EIT Food eu-eit-food
Project type
drittmittelprojekt-third-party-funded-project
Themes
Nutrition, Recommender, Data, Food
Mapping Digitization in Highly Regulated Spaces In highly regulated sectors the impact of AI is very profound. Ethical dilemmas and legal questions make the digitization in fields such as healthcare and the legal domain the center of interdisciplinary questions. Students that will end up working in these fields should be prepared to answer questions that fall outside the traditional boundaries of Master programs. In this Plug-in module, students will work in interdisciplinary teams to understand how AI is used in the healthcare and legal domain and what legal and ethical implications it has and can have in the future. Through different digital media platforms, students will share their findings with their fellow students but also with people outside the university community.
Project leader(s)
Dr. Eduardo Magrani
Period
01.09.2020 - 31.08.2021
past
Funding institution
Internal Funding
Internal Funding internal-funding
Project type
plug-in-module
Themes
Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Digitization; Healthcare; Legal Domain; Regulation; Rule of Law; Legal Tech.
Legal reflection in situations of consulting on technological development (RechTech) Digital technologies are constantly becoming a bigger part of our everyday life and are shaping our lives and how we live together. Legal advice often plays an important and perhaps still underestimated role when shaping these technologies. The project will shed light on the question whether law can be made fruitful as a design resource.
Project leader(s)
Prof. Dr. Christian Djeffal
Period
31.03.2021-28.02.2024
past
Funding institution
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Federal Ministry of Education and Research federal-ministry-of-education-and-research
Translation and artificial intelligence
Project leader(s)
Prof. Dr. Christian Djeffal
Period
September 2019 - December 2020
past
Funding institution
National E-Government Competence Center
National E-Government Competence Center national-e-government-competence-center
Project type
third-party-funded-project
Themes
Artificial Intelligence, Translation, Public Administration, Innovation, Algorithms, Automated Translations
Translating Virtual Reality into an Artistic Medium Recently, more and more artists have begun experimenting with the medium of Virtual Reality (VR) and producing immersive, computer generated worlds. Further, both known and not as well-known museums, festivals and galleries around the world have started exhibiting VR artwork.
Project leader(s)
Mariya Dzhimova
Period
Since January 2017
past
Project type
promotionsprojekt-phd-project
Themes
Virtual-Reality, art, aesthetic, field work, MCTS on art, Virtual-reality-art, artistic medium, artistic practices