Lecturers
Prof. Dr. Markus Oermann
97074 Würzburg
flexible by arrangement by e-mail
Endowed professorship for Digital Ethics and Media Law
- financed by the Vogel Stiftung Dr. Eckernkamp
Chairman of the Examination Board and Program advisor of the bachelor degree program “Digital Society”
Person of Trust of the Study Promotion Agency of the Foundation of German Business
Teaching Areas
Regular courses
- Ethical Leadership (Master Digital Business Systems)
- Trustworthy AI and AI Regulations (Master Artificial Intelligence)
- Introduction to Law (Bachelor Digital Society)
- Topics in Socioinformatics (Bachelor Digital Society)
- Media and Copyright Law (Bachelor Digital Society)
- ELSI and Digital Transformation (Bachelor Digital Society)
- Data Protection Law (Bachelor Business Analytics, Bachelor Media Management)
- Governance, Risk, Compliance and Ethics (Bachelor Information Security)
Publications
Talks/Panels/Workshops
- 08.04.25: REFSQ 2025, Barcelona, Keynote - “Designing Software means shaping Digital Society”
- 04.04.25: CAIRO.thws Adminstration Hackathon - “AI regulation in Europe - current status and outlook”
- 28.03.25: Symposium “Was braucht's”, Faculty of Design at THWS - “AI Regulation: Necessary Guardrails or Deathblow for Europe's Digital Sovereignty?”
- 21.03.25/28.03.25: Audience discussion on the play “(R)evolution” at the Hafentheater Chambinzky, Würzburg
- 30.01.25: Lawyers' Day of the District Government of Lower Franconia, Würzburg
- 17.01.25: RV College of Engineering, Bengaluru, India - "AI Ethics and the future of Artificial Intelligence"
- 12.11.24: European Conference of the Federal Chamber of Architects, Panel
- 12.11.24: AI Week Mainfranken - “Shaping AI ethically!” - together with Prof. Dr. Nicholas Müller
- 25.10.24: IWI-Net annual meeting, Würzburg - “Why digital ethics concerns us all”
- 12.10.24: FIW alumni meeting, Würzburg - “Digital ethics and AI - equality as a fundamental value”
- 10.06.24: Transforming Media, Würzburg - Panel
- 13.05.24: United Europe AI Advocacy Seminar, Berlin - “AI powered Disinformation - A Threat to Election Integrity (?)”
Journal Articles/Discussion Papers/Monographies (en.)
with Martina Chapman: Supporting quality journalism through media and information literacy. Study for MSI-JOQ Committee of experts on quality journalism in the digital age, 2020, Council of Europe, Strasbourg.
with Wolfgang Schulz: Assessing Policy III: Regulatory Impact Assessment, in: H. V. den Bulck, M. Puppis, K. Donders, & L. V. Audenhove (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Methods for Media Policy Research, Palgrave Macmillan 2019, London: p. 575–593, doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16065-4
with Tobias Mast and Wolfgang Schulz: Doing Internet Governance: Constructing Normative Structures inside and outside of Intermediary Organisations, 2016, in: GigaNet Symposium 2016 Conference Proceedings.
with Lennart Ziebarth: Interpreting code – Adapting the methodology to analyze the normative contents of law for the analysis of technology, in: Computer Law and Security Review 2015, Vol. 31, Nr. 2: p. 257-267.
with Nils Töllner: The Evolution of Governance Structure in Cryptocurrencies and the Emergence of Code-Based Arbitration in Bitcoin, in: Berkman Center for Internet & Society Research Publication Series, No. 2015-5.
with Martin Lose, Katharina Johnsen und Jan-Hinrik Schmidt: Approaching Social Media Governance, in: HIIG Discussion Paper Series, No. 2014-05.