The European Academy of Law and ICT emerged from a common initiative of three colleagues and professors of ICT Law from universities forming the so-called “Vienna Group” in 2005: Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria), Masaryk University of Brno (Czech Republic) and University of Pécs (Hungary). From 2009 close cooperation was developed with University of Bratislava, University of Trnava (Slovakia) and University of Wrocław (Poland); later the University of Göttingen (Germany) and Korvinus University of Budapest (Hungary) have also joined the group.
The mission of the European Academy of Law and ICT is to organise conferences and seminars and to support education and research in the field of Law and ICT. Moreover, the Academy is a platform for exchange of state-of-the-art knowledge and expertise in the constantly changing field of ICT Law and Legal Informatics.
The mission of the European Academy of Law and ICT is to organise conferences and seminars and to support education and research in the field of Law and ICT. Moreover, the Academy is a platform for exchange of state-of-the-art knowledge and expertise in the constantly changing field of ICT Law and Legal Informatics.
Founding members of the Academy:
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Zsolt BaloghDr. Balogh received his degrees as a lawyer and applied mathematician in the Faculty of Law of University of Pécs and in Faculty of Science of University of Szeged. He is working as a university lecturer since 1988. Since 2013 he worked for the Faculty of Law of the University of Pécs as head of department and vice-dean of the Faculty, and recently he serves as senior research fellow at the Department for Information and Communications Technology of Faculty of Business Administration of the Corvinus University of Budapest. He also gained experiences in information rights from 1995 to 2001 as advisor of the parliamentary commissioner for data protection and freedom of information. Dr. Balogh controls the PhD program for Information and Communication Technology Law of the Faculty of Law of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He has been established the Research Center for Information and Communications Technology Law. http://ikjk.hu
Dr. Balogh is a member of several international organizations, as the British and Irish Legal Education Technology Association (BILETA), International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL) and the European Academy of Law and ICT. |
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Radim Polčákdoc. JUDr. Radim Polcak, Ph.D. is the head of the Institute of Law and Technology (ILT) at the Faculty of Law, Masaryk University. He teaches and publishes in ICT law, energy law, legal theory and legal philosophy at Masaryk University and lectures at law schools and judicial training institutions in Europe and the US. Radim is also the general chair of the Cyberspace annual international conference; editor-in-chief of the Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology (MUJLT); honorary chairman of the Editorial Board of the Review of Law and Technology (Revue pro právo a technologie) and a member of the editorial boards and governing bodies of ICT-law focused scientific journals and international conferences in the Czech Republic and around the EU. He is a panelist at the .eu ADR arbitration court, a founding fellow of European Law Institute, head of observer delegations of the ILT at UNCITRAL and a member of various governmental and scientific expert and advisory bodies. Radim published more than 150 articles, conference papers, books and book chapters namely on topics related to ICT law and legal philosophy.
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Andreas WiebeProf. Dr. Wiebe studied law at the University of Hannover from 1981 to 1987 and at the University of Virginia (U.S.A.) where he received the LL.M. degree in 1988. Having obtained the doctoral degree in 1991 with a comparative work on the protection of computer programmes in the U.S. and Germany he worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Legal Informatics at the University of Hannover. In 2001 he completed his habilitation on electronic contracting.
From 2002 to 2009 he was the head of the Department of Information Law and Intellectual Property Law at Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. Besides several guest professorships he was a Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School from January to June 2008 and at the University of Nanjing, China, in October 2012. Since May 2009 he is a professor of competition law, intellectual property law and media law at the University of Göttingen, Germany. Main areas of research are information and communication technology law, copyright and intellectual property law, and unfair competition law. He participated in several nationally and EU funded research projects, in recent years with a special focus on data protection and copyright law. Prof. Wiebe is the head of „Forschungsverein Infolaw“ in Vienna since 2003. He is co-organisor of the Austrian ICT Law Day and the Competition Law Forum, both annual events in Vienna. He is also a co-organisor of the annual Summer School on European ICT and IP Law, taking place in Reichenau, Austria. He also organises the Göttingen International Research Forum on ICT and IP Law, providing an annual forum for young researchers from all over Europe. Prof. Wiebe is on the scientific board of several IT and media law journals in Germany and other European countries. He is an author of several German and English legal articles and books and co-editor of handbooks. He was Vice President of the German computer law association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Recht und Informatik, DGRI e.V.) from 2005 to 2011. He is also a member of the German Society of intellectual property law (GRUR e.V.), the German society for comparative law (Gesellschaft für Rechtsvergleichung) and the Austrian chapter of the ALAI. |
