Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Forgó

Contact

Room No.:	II/839
Phone:	+49-511/762-8159
Secretary's office:	+49-511/762-8161
Fax:	+49-511/762-8290
E-Mail:	forgo@iri.uni-hannover.de
Sprechstunde :	notice in advance to the secretary's office or by mail to Prof. Forgó required

legal informatics, esp. data privacy laws, intellectual property rights, theory of laws and private laws

1968	Born in Vienna
1974-1986	Attended school in Vienna
June 1986	General qualification for university entrance with distinction
1986-1990	Academic studies of law, philosophy and linguistics in Vienna and Paris (Paris II Pantheon-Assas)
1997	Graduation in Law in Vienna (with a jurisprudential thesis)
1990-2000	Assistant at the Institute for Roman Law (University of Vienna)
1996-2000	IT officer in law at the University of Vienna
since October 1998	Director of the university training course for legal informatics at the University of Vienna
2000-2002	Administrator and law professor of computer science at the Faculty of Law, University of Hanover
July 2002	Call for a professorship in IT law and legal computer science at the University of Hanover (assuming the appointment on 1 October 2002)
May 2005	Call for a professorship in IT and European Law at the Danube University Krems (Austria, rejected)
since April 2007	Head of the IRI and responsible for the supplementary course in computer science law