Konrad Duden called to the University of Leipzig, wins German law and informatics foundation research award
Konrad Duden, senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, will join the law faculty at Leipzig, where he has been called to take over the professorship for civil and private international law at the start of the year 2023. On 11 November 2022, Duden also won an award from the Deutsche Stiftung für Recht und Informatik (German foundation for law and informatics – the DSRI) for his habilitation.
The law scholar habilitated through the University of Hamburg in 2021 with a thesis on the significance of the digital revolution for property law. His work, occasioned by the mounting prevalence of connected devices whose functionality can be blocked by providers, delves into property law protections for digital uses that depend on software or a network.
The DSRI, founded in 2004, is dedicated to promoting academic and professional training for lawyers and information technologists whose work involves issues of data law and legal informatics. The prize, awarded annually by the DSRI, recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of information technology law.
Dr Konrad Duden, LL.M. (Cambridge), Privatdozent, studied law and chemistry at Munich, Heidelberg, and Bilbao and received an LL.M. from Cambridge University in 2015 before returning for doctoral study at Heidelberg. He is currently acting professor of civil law and private international law with the law faculty at Leipzig.
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