Retrospective: Legal issues in virtual worlds - JuWissDay 2024

Friday, 27 September 2024

09:00     
Registration  

09:30     
Welcome address and introduction
Dr Jonas Botta and Dr Sarah Hartmann

09:45    
Keynote speech: 'Virtual reality in legal practice'
Prof. Dr Simon Heetkamp, LL.M.,
Professor of Commercial Law, Mobility and Insurance Law at TH Köln/
Co-founder of the 'digitale Richterschaft' (Digital Judiciary)

10:30    
Panel discussion 1: Digital twins of natural persons

The digital twin in the metaverse - A legal examination of the authentication process
Jaouhara Zouagui, Fraunhofer FOKUS (Berlin)

Virtual twins and diabetes: Legal aspects of the dAlbetes project
Dr David M. Schneeberger, Research Institute - Digital Human Rights Center (Vienna)

Moderator: Dr Jonas Botta, FÖV Speyer

11:30    
Coffee break  

11:45    
Panel discussion 2: Political and social participation

'Bring on the Internet!' - On constitutional and participatory guarantees in the digitalised world
Naziar Amin, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

The digitalisation of urban planning: A missed opportunity?
Dr Alexander Brade, LL.M. (Harvard), University of Leipzig

Moderator: Nik Roeingh, FÖV Speyer

12:45    
Lunch break  

14:00    
Welcome and introduction to JuWiss e.V.
Dr Felix Würkert and Dr Katharina Goldberg

14:15    
Panel discussion 3: Hazard prevention vs. privacy

The ban on total surveillance and its digital future
Nicolas Ziegler, Technical University of Munich

'Legal design' for HessenData (Sec. 25a Public Safety and Order Act of the State of Hesse - Hessisches Gesetz über die öffentliche Sicherheit und Ordnung - HSOG) - a 'graded governance concept'
Nitharshini Santhakumar, LL.M. (Speyer), Technical University of Darmstadt

Moderator: Martin Feldhaus, FÖV Speyer

15:15    
Coffee break  

15:30    
Panel discussion 4: Ensuring (IT) security

'Digital twins of KRITIS - Opportunities and requirements for improving IT security'
Luise Lautenbach, Noerr (Berlin)

The possibilities and limits of criminal law as a protection of fundamental rights in the virtual space
Jun. Prof. Dr Jennifer Grafe, LL.M.,University of Tübingen

Moderator: Carolin Kemper, FÖV Speyer

16:30    
Coffee break

16:45    
Panel discussion 5: The sustainability of new technologies

Virtual worlds in a circular economy - access rights for civil society
Maximilian Petras, Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg

Moderator: Dr Katharina Goldberg, Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg

17:15    
Interim conclusions  

17:30    
End of the first day's research agenda

19:00    
Dinner in the city

Saturday, 28 September 2024      

09:30    
Keynote speech: 'The unbearable lightness of what should be: On the possibilities of standards in virtual worlds'
Prof. Dr Matthias C. Kettemann, LL.M. (Harvard), Professor of Innovation, Theory and Philosophy of Law, University of Innsbruck

10:00    
Panel discussion 6: Regulation of new economic systems or decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs)

The regulation of competition in the metaverse
Armin Mozaffari Jovein, RWT (Reutlingen)

Standards addressees in the regulation of decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs)
Dr Martin Meier, University of Erfurt

Moderator: Luise Lautenbach, Noerr (Berlin)

11:00    
Coffee break

11:15    
Panel discussion 7: Public and private content curation

in virtual worlds under the Digital Services Act
Daniel Hauck, University of Hagen

'Objectivity, please!' - On the regulation of user behaviour in virtual state discourse spaces
Franziskus Horn, Spirit Legal (Leipzig)

Moderator: Dr Sarah Hartmann, University of Munster

12:15    
Conclusion

12:30    
Conclusion of the event

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