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Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law

A new department for new legal questions and challenges.

22/05/2026

🌍 Vienna Lecture Series on Comparative Constitutional Law and Theory

Join Professor Aileen Kavanagh (Trinity College Dublin) for her lecture “Stopping Short of Striking Down” on Tuesday, 26 May 2026, at 6:00 p.m.

📍 Room L619, 6th Floor, Faculty of Law, Sigmund Freud University, Lassallestraße 3, 1020 Vienna

✉️ Registration by 25 May 2026: [email protected]

We look forward to welcoming you!

22/05/2026

Vienna Lecture Series on Comparative Constitutional Law and Theory

Join Professor Aileen Kavanagh (Trinity College Dublin) for her lecture “Stopping Short of Striking Down” on Tuesday, 26 May 2026, at 6:00 p.m.

📍 Room L619, 6th Floor, Faculty of Law, Sigmund Freud University, Lassallestraße 3, 1020 Vienna

✉️ Registration by 25 May 2026: [email protected]

We look forward to welcoming you!

18/05/2026

Lunch Bytes welcomed Professor Stephen Hilgartner (Cornell University) for a thought-provoking discussion on the apparent immortality of the “law lag” concept. From launch control and knowledge-control regimes to AI and blitzscaling, the session explored why the idea of law “lagging behind” technology remains so powerful despite decades of critique. Thank you to everyone who joined the lively discussion!

12/05/2026

Wir gratulieren Mag. Lisa Gamillscheg-Müllner herzlich zum Gewinn des diesjährigen NHP-Stipendiums.

Mit ihrer Dissertation zu Klimaschutz im Lebensmittelrecht überzeugte sie die Fachjury. Das Stipendium würdigt Projekte, die einen besonderen Beitrag zur nachhaltigen Entwicklung unserer Gesellschaft leisten.

28/04/2026

Vienna meets Singapore 🌏⚖️

The Vienna–NUS Inaugural Law & Technology Workshop brings together leading scholars to explore global challenges at the intersection of law and tech. With comparative perspectives and lively exchanges, presentations by National University of Singapore researchers meet Vienna-based responses — sparking critical discussion on the future of tech governance.

📅 19 May 2026
🕤 09:30–16:45
📍 Top Floor, Juridicum

Register until 12.04.2026

https://id.univie.ac.at/news-events/events-detailansicht/news/vienna-nus-inaugural-law-and-technology-workshop/?no_cache=1&cHash=c7e4b7045f4345ba39ff098a3fb6e11a

22/04/2026

🍕26 March 2026 | Lunch Bytes: “Hallucinations – From Bad Pizza to Legal Consequences” with Prof. Eliza Mik.

The playful title served as a “human marker” — something no LLM would come up with. Prof. Mik’s talk came with a healthy dose of skepticism. She showed how AI can produce convincing yet false legal content. What may sound like a harmless “hallucination” masks a structural defect.

Thanks to Prof. Mik and everyone who joined!

Read more:
https://id.univie.ac.at/en/news-events/news-detailansicht/news/lunch-bytes-hallucinations-from-bad-pizza-to-legal-consequences-2/?no_cache=1&cHash=e25881c49c959936fbcf339dfe9ef73b

23/03/2026

Lunch Bytes: The Apparent Immortality of “Cultural Lag” and “Law Lag”

Join us for the next Lunch Bytes session with Stephen Hilgartner (Cornell University), a leading scholar in science and technology studies.

📅 14 April 2026
🕦 12:30–14:00
📍 SEM 64, Juridicum
⚠️ Register by 10 April
🥪 Lunch provided

12/03/2026

🍕 Event

Lunch Bytes: Hallucinations – From Bad Pizza to Legal Consequences

Large language models can generate fluent and convincing answers — even when they are wrong. But what happens when these systems are used in complex domains like law or medicine, where correctness is harder to verify and plausibility can be mistaken for truth?
Join us for the next Lunch Bytes session with Eliza Mik (CUHK Faculty of Law), a leading scholar on smart contracts, AI, and transaction automation.

In her talk “Hallucinations: From Bad Pizza to Legal Consequences,” she will examine why hallucinations are an inherent feature of LLMs, why benchmark performance can be misleading, and what risks arise when users rely on AI-generated answers that merely sound plausible.

📅 26 March 2026
🕧 12:30–14:00
📍 SEM 52
⚠️ Register by 24 March 2026

🍕 Lunch provided — promise, it won’t be “bad” pizza.

27/12/2025

📢 We are hiring – join us!
Das Team von Professorin Wendehorst besetzt ab 1. März 2026 zwei Stellen als Studienassistent*in. Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Bewerbung bis 20. Jänner 2026!
🔗 https://zivilrecht.univie.ac.at/stellenausschreibungen/

📢 We are hiring – join us!
The team of Professor Wendehorst is looking to fill two positions as a Student Assistant as of 1 March 2026. We look forward to receiving your application by 20 January 2026!
🔗 https://zivilrecht.univie.ac.at/stellenausschreibungen/

08/12/2025

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐮𝐬! 🤗

Get to know us better and find out more about our research and teaching focuses. Today we introduce you to Julian Dorffner, who works as a university assistant at the Chair of Prof Christiane Wendehorst.

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