Professor Dr Nikolaus Forgó

Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Forgó studied law, philosophy and linguistics in Vienna and Paris. In 1997, he was awarded a Dr. iur. (Dissertation in legal theory). Between 1990 and2000, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Vienna (Austria), and since 2000 he has been a full Professor for Legal Informatics and IT-Law at the University of Hanover. He specialises in e-commerce, Internet and data protection law, areas in which he has published extensively. Prof. Forgó has substantial teaching and consulting experience in all fields of IT-law, legal informatics, civil law, legal history and legal theory. Since 2014 he has been the data protection officer and since 2015 CIO of his University.