Nikolaus Forgo

Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Forgó has studied law, philosophy, and linguistics in Vienna and Paris. In 1997 he got his Dr. iur. (Dissertation in legal theory). Between the years 1990-2000 he was Assistant Professor at the University of Vienna (Austria). Since 2000 he is 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.