Course Contents
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[b]MaMa (Malfunction Management)*:[/b]
There is an explicit dissociation from the publication via TUCaN for WiSe 2024/2025. The current (as of 27.02.2025) TUCaN publication with excerpts from the module handbook is also being revised. Therefore, the supplementary pre-publication is made via Moodle. This clear commitment to suboptimal publication corresponds to the author's CREDO in Malfunction Management (MaMa).
[b]So what?[/b]
It's about improving the world through the use of technology - and/or assessing the legal limits of technical use cases and opportunities. It is based on a WELTRECHT^2 perspective, which is characterized by sustainability through technology and sustainable law. The planned DidaktiKInkubator in the summer semester 2025 is therefore a Legal-Tech-AI, which also includes sustainability assessments of the prompts.
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A. Didactic teaching, learning and research incubator since 2020[/b]
The Department of Public Law will also offer the module “European (AI) Law” in the summer semester 2025. The double module is pioneering teaching in “innovation law” (own terminology). The participation of students and doctoral candidates* is essential - for criticism, which is always a prerequisite for improvement, please contact Viola Schmid: schmid@cylaw.tu-darmstadt.de
[b]B. Double module - No AI law without Union law and no Union law without AI law![/b]
From a quantitative perspective, the “validity” of law in 27 EU member states and for 446 million EU citizens* should be core educational material for all students and cyber citizens. The two-part course is a logical continuation of the professor's lectures on European law from the last decade.
The module consists of the course “European Law (Legal & Lawyer Management)” and “A Trustworthy AI for Europe”. Both components complement each other - which is why they are published in parallel on Moodle. It is our conviction that any European law textbook without AI law and any AI law textbook without conveying current developments in EU and German (constitutional) law in 2024 must be considered incomplete. The expansion of the (digital) internal market (Art. 26 (2) TFEU) to include AIs is so important for the chances of survival of the economy, the states and the people in the European Union that this postulate can be raised in 2024 (“sine qua non” relationship).
From a legal perspective, the “AI Act” from 2024 (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) and the Biden Executive Order from 2023 are the latest developments: This is a new legal discipline in the making. Initial court decisions - both EU and German - are of particular importance. From a bottom-up perspective, the potentially groundbreaking case law of the Federal Constitutional Court (previously Automated Dataanalysis I/HessenDATA, judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court of 16.02.2023 - 1 BvR 1547/19, 1 BvR 2634/20 and most recently the Federal Criminal Police Office Act II, judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court of 01.10.2024 - 1 BvR 1160/19) must also be taken into account.
[b]C. Integration of “AIs” (legal techs) into the integrated course consisting of “lecture” and “exercise”[/b]
Since the winter semester 2024/2025, not only has a “(N)etiquette” for the integration of AI generators been developed, tested and demonstrated in the “Exercise”, but AIs are also challenged and promoted, for example with the topic “What I (as a cybercitizen) should know about the AI Regulation”. Legal prompt engineering, such as the evaluation of AI generators, is and has been planned and practiced with students from a wide range of disciplines (from cognitive science to (business) informatics...). This consultation of different AIs is currently already standard in popular science articles (guest article by Oliver Vetter and Peter Buxmann in the F.A.Z. of 18.02.2025, Künstliche Intelligenz würde rot oder grün wählen, p. 8).
The law course in the summer semester 2025 plans to use an “AI system” that is not only specially trained in relation to the AI Regulation, but also offers a sustainability assessment of prompts and answers (contact with provider established). It is therefore a “DidaktiKInkubator” that is suitable for generating up-to-date information beyond the few existing commentaries and textbooks. DEMONSTRATOR: The Commission's guidelines on “AI systems” of 06.02.2025 (C(2025) 924 final) are not included in these works. The need for continuous updates also arises from recital 64, sentence 2 of the non-binding guidelines, which do not take a position on a central issue: “The analysis on the differences between AI systems and general-purpose
AI models is outside the scope of these Guidelines.”
*MaMa” is a neologism coined by the author in 2014 in view of the challenges of the digital transformation for German jurisdiction - from the judiciary to e-justice. In retrospect, it can also be stated: The demand for malfunction management as a legal principle as well as a legal claim has passed the test of time (“dead”). In April 2023, for example, the German Federal Administrative Court was also unavailable for several days via the electronic court and ordinance mailbox (EGVP). See for future (legal) scientific legal design in 2014: Schmid on Section 55a and Section 173 VwGO in: Sodan/Ziekow (eds.), Kommentar zur Verwaltungsgerichtsordnung, 4th edition 2014, Section 55a para. 26, 38, 39, 64, 87,121; Section 173 para. 19 fn. 44.
**"The use of masculine language is in the interest of clarity, brevity and simplicity (KKE formula). This does not imply a negation of the existence of female competence - rather a request not to reduce the grammatical masculine to the biological gender.”
Literature
Die folgende Übersetzung wird mit DeepL ("kostenlose Version") angeboten - eine Überprüfung mit Menschlicher Intelligenz (MI) erfolgt nicht.
The following translation is offered with DeepL (“free version”) - it is not checked with Human Intelligence (MI).
Some research results on literature are shared here. The professor has worked to ensure that the AI module of the Beck publishing house is available on Beck-Online via the ULB. A research workshop is also offered in the course.
[b]Teil 1: Digitalisierung
A. Kommentar & Handbuch[/b]
2021, Zankl, Rechtshandbuch der Digitalisierung, MANZ, 118,00 978-3-214-02162-7
2025 (Jan.), Schulze/Staudenmayer, EU Digital Law – Article-by-Article Commentary (2. Aufl.), C.H. Beck, 978-3-406-80468-7
[b]B. Weitere Auswahl an Literatur[/b]
At this point we would like to point out in advance Schriftenreihe Recht und Digitalisierung | Digitization and the Law Herausgegeben von Broemel/Kumkar/Lüdemann/Podszun/Schweitzer beim Nomos Verlags seit 2020.
2023, Martini/Möslein/Rostalski, Recht der Digitalisierung, NomosLehrbuch, 90 978-3-8487-8092-1
2024, Wanderwitz, Digitalisierung und Recht: Retrospektive und Entwicklungslinien eines digitalen Wandels, Springer, 978-3-662-59463-6
2025, Rachut, Grundrechtsverwirklichung in digitalen Kontexten (Diss.), Internetrecht und Digitale Gesellschaft (IDG), Band 64, Duncker & Humblot, 978-3-428-19305-9
2025 (Jan.), Kettemann, Recht der Digitalisierung, Mohr Siebeck, 978-3-16-162587-9
2025 (Mär.), Wendt/Schimang/ Schüßler/von Wehrs, Digitalisierung und Recht, Nomos Studium, 978-3-8487-7479-1
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Teil 2: Künstliche Intelligenz
A. Kommentare[/b]
2024, Martini/Wendehorst, KI-VO – Verordnung über Künstliche Intelligenz, C.H.BECK, 978-3-406-81136-4
2025 (Apr.), Reusch/Chibanguza, KI-VO – Verordnung über Künstliche Intelligenz, C.H.BECK, 978-3-406-79167-3
2025 (Feb.),Wendt/Wendt, Verordnung über künstliche Intelligenz: KI-VO, Nomos, 978-3-8487-7064-9
2025 (Mär.), Bomhard/Pieper/Wende, KI-VO – Künstliche Intelligenz Verordnung, Deutscher Fachverlag GmbH, 978-3-8005-1830-2
2025 (Mär.), Richter, KI-Verordnung und öffentliche Sicherheit- Kommentar für Polizei und Sicherheitsbehörden, KSV Medien, 978-3-8293-1974-4
2025 (Sep.), Schefzig/Kilian, BeckOK (Online Kommentar) KI-Recht, C.H.BECK -Modul: KI-Recht PLUS
2025 (Okt.), Schwartmann/Keber/Zenner, KI-VO, C.F. Müller, 00 978-3-8114-5659-4
2025 (Nov.), Heinze/Steinrötter/Zerdick, KI-Verordnung – Gesetz/Verordnung über künstliche Intelligenz, C.H.BECK, 978-3-406-79469-8
[b]B. Handbücher[/b]
2022, Kment/Borchert, Künstliche Intelligenz und Algorithmen in der Rechtsanwendung, C.H. Beck, 978-3-406-78619-8
2022, Hoeren/Pinelli, Künstliche Intelligenz - Ethik und Recht, C.H. Beck, 978-3-406-77388-4
2024, Wendt/Wendt, Das neue Recht der Künstlichen Intelligenz – Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), Nomos, 978-3-8487-8980-1
2024, Knauff/Lee/Lin/Schröder, Künstliche Intelligenz, Ethik und Recht, Nomos, 978-3-7560-0903-9
2024 (Dez.), Wendt/Wendt, New Artificial Intelligence Act – A Practitioner’s Guide, Nomos, 978-3-7560-0666-3
2025 (Mär.), Kaulartz/Merkle, Rechtshandbuch Künstliche Intelligenz (2. Aufl.), C.H. Beck, Vahlen, 978-3-406-81872-1
2025 (Mär.), Chibanguza/Kuß/Steege, Künstliche Intelligenz – Recht und Praxis automatisierter und autonomer Systeme | Generative KI (2. Aufl.), Nomos, 978-3-7560-0828-5
2025 (Mai), Hansen/Otte /Sachs, Die KI-VO in der Praxis, C.H. Beck, 978-3-406-82860-7
2025 (Mai), Ebers/Heinze/Steinrötter, Künstliche Intelligenz und Robotik – Rechtshandbuch (2. Aufl.), C.H. Beck, 978-3-406-81860-8
[b]C. Weitere Auswahl an Literatur[/b]
2024, Schäufler, Regulierung von Systemen Künstlicher Intelligenz durch die DSGVO, Schriften zum Recht der Digitalisierung (SRDi) 28, Mohr Siebeck, 978-3-16-163315-7
2025 (Sep.), Hilgendorf/Roth-Isigkeit, Die neue Verordnung der EU zur Künstlichen Intelligenz – Rechtsfragen und Compliance (2. Aufl.), C.H. Beck, 978-3-406-82760-0
Sustainability Reference of the Course Contents
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[b]Who:[/b]
The professor with venia in energy law published more than 25 years ago, in Schmid, Strom- und Energiespar-Marketing in ihrer Bedeutung für das Umweltrecht 1997, p. 1:
"The challenges that a “global*” economic “order**” poses to nation states and which the Federal Republic of Germany is becoming increasingly aware of, are a prerequisite for two perspectives on the relationship between environmental protection and energy consumption. On the one hand, competition between nations is leading to a revision of location policies and to the search for options for reducing production costs; at the same time, the multinational roots of German companies are increasing awareness of the global problems of environmental and climate protection, to the solution of which the sophisticated industrialized nations in particular can be expected to make a contribution."
*The global economy is more of a vision than a reality; although more and more countries are participating in the flow of capital and goods, many countries, especially on the African continent, are not (yet) participating in the “global economy”.
**Order” must be placed in quotation marks here because it also presupposes a minimum level of political order. Discussion examples include the human rights problems in China, Iran and Turkey, which more or less disrupt the context of economic “order”.
[b]So what?[/b]
It is about improving the world through the use of technologies and/or assessing the legal limits of technical use cases and opportunities. It is based on a WELTRECHT^2 perspective, which is characterized by sustainability through technology and sustainable law. The planned DidaktiKInkubator in the summer semester of 2025 is therefore a legal-tech AI that also includes sustainability assessments of the prompts.
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