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Course Contents
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[h1]Tradition building & “Herstory”[/h1]
The double module is based on six years of experience in AI law teaching from the “WELTRECHT^2” perspective. Experience has shown that it takes four weeks for students to grasp the multidisciplinary, future-oriented (r)evolutionary nature of teaching and research as a “common thread.” The face-to-face nature of “lectures” and exercises, which also integrate “AIs,” requires not only human-machine collaboration but also human-human interaction. A characteristic feature is the step-by-step strategy, which builds on previous semesters but finds new current focal points each semester (GoCoRe!).


[h1]The beginnings – module sheet from 2020[/h1]

[h3]European (AI) law[/h3]
The European Commission described the “game-changing nature of AI” back in 2018 (“Artificial Intelligence for Europe” COM(2018)237 final, April 25, 2018, p. 4) and the “Independent High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence” (AI HLEG) described an “AI-driven world” (“Policy and Investment Recommendations for Trustworthy AI,” June 26, 2019, p. 49). This makes it clear that AI could be a “driver” and that the world will change. Three paths – represented by three legal systems (the People's Republic of China, the United States of America, and the European Union, in no particular order) – are currently being paved. The Commission is consistently working on building a brand for this – “trustworthy AI for Europe.” Because the European single market (Art. 26(2) TFEU), with its 500 million people, is also a factor in the global economy, the lecture focuses on the European perspective from the point of view of German law. This “terroir knowledge” forms the basis for assessing European legal developments, which since 2017 have been focused on defining and shaping an “AI augmented world” (own terminology). For this reason, initial German approaches (such as the Hambach Declaration on Artificial Intelligence – Seven Data Protection Requirements, April 3, 2019, https://www.datenschutzkonferenz-online.de/media/en/20190405_hambacher_erklaerung.pdf (January 13, 2020)) are integrated into a translingual (English – German and vice versa – e.g., interchangeable use of the terms KI and AI) pioneering event, thus also outlining the content:

· What does cyber law know about AI and
· what significance does (European) law have for AI

in the present and in the future? The agenda of this pioneering lecture is, on the one hand, to impart basic knowledge for the development of a European legal perspective and, on the other hand, to develop a sense of responsibility for a fundamental change that the addition of AI could mean for humanity and the environment. As a compound noun, European (AI) law takes into account the two modules

· European law – legal and lawyer management
· A Trustworthy AI for Europe.
 

Further Information
[h1]Important information for the 2025 summer semester[/h1]
The Public Law Department appreciates your interest and has attached the introductory message from TUCaN for the 2025 summer semester (tradition building) for your further information.

[h2]Module sheet from the 2025 summer semester[/h2]
MaMa (Malfunction Management)*:
We expressly distance ourselves from the publication via TUCaN for the winter semester 2024/2025. The current (as of February 27, 2025) TUCaN publication with excerpts from the module handbook is also being revised. For this reason, the supplementary pre-publication is being made here via Moodle. This clear commitment to the suboptimality of a publication is in line with the author's CREDO in Malfunction Management (MaMa).
 
*“MaMa” is a neologism coined by the author in 2014 in response to the challenges of digital transformation for German jurisprudence – from justice to e-justice. Looking back, it can also be said that the demand for malfunction management as a legal principle and requirement has stood the test of time. For example, the German Federal Administrative Court was also unavailable for several days in April 2023 due to problems with the electronic court and regulation mailbox (EGVP). For future (legal) science legal design in 2014, see: Schmid on § 55a and § 173 VwGO in: Sodan/Ziekow (eds.), Commentary on the Administrative Court Rules, 4th edition 2014, § 55a margin nos. 26, 38, 39, 64, 87,121; § 173 margin note 19 footnote 44.

[h2]A. Didactic teaching, learning, and research incubator since 2020[/h2]
The Public Law department will also offer the module “European (AI) Law” in the summer semester of 2025. This double module is a pioneering course in “innovation law” (own terminology). The participation of students and doctoral candidates[1] is essential – for criticism, which is always a prerequisite for improvement – Viola Schmid can be reached at: schmid@cylaw.tu-darmstadt.de

[1] “The use of masculine language is in the interest of clarity, conciseness, and simplicity (KKE formula). This does not imply a denial of the existence of female competence – rather, it is a request not to reduce the grammatical masculine form to biological gender.”

[h2]B. Tradition in Future Law – Legal Foreknowledge (Author’s Terminology) for a “More Sustainable Future”[/h2]

[h3]I. Macro planning, LAW CONE & Status 2025[/h3]
Since 2024 and the “AI Act” (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of June 13, 2024), students can be taught legal knowledge from three levels of a “LAW CONE” (TRADITIONAL LAW, CYBERLAW, AILAW, illustration, in: Schmid, Weltrecht^2 Backbone Documents“ - here ‘Paper’: ”Multidisciplinary Constitutional Law Scholarship from Germany and the EU" submitted to World Congress of Constitutional Law in Dec. 2022. doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00023166 and on slide 14 in “Legal challenges of an ‘AI and, in particular, drone world’” as part of the lecture series “Data Protection and Data Security” by the Computer Science Student Council, July 13, 2021, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main). The 14 classroom sessions in AI law (“A trustworthy AI for Europe”) are divided into two blocks: (1) Basics & Classics and (2) DEMONSTRATORS. The legal perspective is German-European – the professor's research and didactic perspective is global law (WELTRECHT^2). The 14 face-to-face sessions in European law (European law – legal and lawyer management) serve to educate students in German public law and European law, which are prerequisites for understanding and classifying AI law. “Classification” here refers to the ability to recognize, address, and independently “update” essential information.

[h3]II. Technology for what? For sustainability![/h3]
[...]. As with Professor Schmid's predecessor, Professor Dr. Adalbert Podlech, the focus is on the challenges of evolution, revolution, formation (formatting), and transformation through the technology-based nature of “all economic processes and practices of living” (Climate Change Adaptation & Mitigation I for Future Generations [ccamfg] - Decision of the Federal Constitutional Court of March 24, 2021, BvR 2656/18, para. 121). From a (future) and (r)evolutionary legal perspective, the minimum standards of (public) law of the “present time” are taught. [...] It should be emphasized that Viola Schmid always tries to take her life bias into account – and not to extrapolate the present as the future.

[h2]C. AI and/versus Humanity?[/h2]
With the AI Regulation coming into force on June 13, 2024, and partial applicability on February 2, 2025, the event concept from 2020 was just as visionary as updating it in 2025. The challenge to human dignity and identity (Art. 1, Art. 79 (3), Art. 23 (1) sentence 3 GG) posed by competition from “AI machines” has long been foreseen by the professor. [1] For a decade, she has regularly opened her events with the question, “What is the difference between me and a ‘robo-prof’?” At the latest since the influence of ChatGPT, among others, on science, the big question of SC(AI)ENCE has arisen. [...] 

[h2]D. Integration of “KIs” (legal techs) into the integrated course consisting of ‘lecture’ and “exercise”[/h2]
Starting in the 2024/2025 winter semester, the “exercise” will not only develop, test, and demonstrate “(N)etiquette” for the integration of AI-generated content, but also challenge and promote AI, for example, with the topic “What I (as a cybercitizen) should know about AI-VO.” Legal prompt engineering, such as the evaluation of AI-generated content, is and has been planned and practiced with students from a wide range of disciplines (from cognitive science to (business) informatics, etc.). [...] The law project in the summer semester of 2025 plans to use an “AI system” that is not only specifically trained in relation to the AI Regulation, but also offers a sustainability assessment of prompts and responses (contact with provider established). This is a “didactic incubator” that is capable of generating up-to-date information beyond the few existing comments and textbooks. DEMONSTRATOR: The Commission's guidelines on “AI systems” dated February 6, 2025 (C(2025) 924 final) are not included in these works. The need for continuous updates also arises from paragraph 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.”

[h2]E. Strategy: WELTRECHT^2 (Global Technology Law Perspective)[/h2]
The strategy of the courses is based on the WELTRECHT^2 methodology developed by the professor, which has been outlined in Legal Open Source publications and will be further tested in the courses. The scope of the courses thus extends well beyond the EU markets. [...]

[h2]F. Cinematographic event concept: Slaughterbots & “The first M-drone light show in 2024 dragon year”[/h2]
[...] Since the summer semester of 2024, the cinematographic lecture concept featuring the short film “Slaughterbots” has been supplemented by a drone mobility project that has also been praised in art magazines: “The first M-drone light show in 2024 dragon year.” 1,500 drones must fly autonomously – there is no room for “remote pilots.” "

[h2]G. Legal (teaching and learning) cone – including cyberlaw Module information[/h2]
European (AI) law does not require attendance at the cyber events “Cyberlaw” and “Public Law.” For an audience interested in comprehensive information (FEX – For Experts), the module handbook on “Cyberlaw” is shared below (as of 06/2024).

Official Course Description
[h1]A Trustworthy AI for Europe[/h1]
[b]GoCore! Agenda:[/b] In the module component “A Trustworthy AI for Europe,” the course draws on documents developed and adopted in 2017 by the European Commission and the “Independent Expert Group on AI” (AI HLEG). The consideration of human-machine interaction in jurisprudence and law is “uncharted territory.” A jurisprudential, regulatory perspective alone is not sufficient—as in cyberlaw, a GoCore! perspective is needed that relates governance and compliance to regulatory strategies. The professor is the initiator of such a research initiative (www.gocore.wi.tu-darmstadt.de (January 13, 2020)). In the core area of cyberlaw, namely the invention and use of so-called AI, this is all the more true in view of the gigantic challenges and the relatively limited time and capacity portfolio of the event: “Red string” is the GoCore! motto, and a “common thread” in this ‘string’ is the LER formula / RER formula (lawful, ethical, robust) published in 2018 by an “independent expert group on AI” (AI HLEG) appointed by the European Commission.

[b]AI law: [/b]It is predictable that “legal tech” will not only change the law itself, but that law in cyberspace and “in the face” of AI may have a new “DNA” called ‘ethics’ and “robustness.” In any case, this is the (legally non-binding to soft law) concept of a 52-member “independent expert group on AI” (AI HLEG), which will be referred to as the “LER formula” (lawful, ethical, robust) in a forthcoming publication by the professor (2020). Not only could this definition of legality through the triad ‘LER’ become groundbreaking, but also the cradle-to-grave approach to an “AI-driven world.” The “framework” for “Trustworthy AI for Europe” is to include “Foundations,” “Realization,” and ‘Assessment’ (“FRA Formula” – own terminology). This makes it clear that application orientation (sector-specific in the Legal Tech lecture) is an integral part of the research and teaching agenda.

[b]AI law in practice:[/b] Because the legal basis for an “AI augmented world” (own terminology) has not been clarified in Germany (essential issues such as attribution, responsibility, liability, legal personality of AI entities, “data ownership” – see the Legal Tech challenge in OLG Brandenburg, judgment of November 6, 2019, Ref. 4 U 123/19) and the European Commission (and the AI HLEG it set up) announced fundamental changes to existing law (in particular regarding liability) in 2017, the European level has been chosen for this pioneering lecture on AI law. As of early 2020, neither the “policy and investment recommendations” have been finalized nor a final “assessment list” for European AI created. The aim is to share with students a real-time experience of the legal (pre)emptive capture of an (AI) world.

[b]Didactics & Audience: [/b]This is an integrated law lecture. It has a lecture component that is interactively deepened and broadened in an exercise. Dogmatics, methodology, and research knowledge supplemented by cyberlaw must be taught to ensure the success of the lecture—students who are competent in research and legal evaluation and who are also able to update the topic after the end of the semester (time management). The aim is to enable students to understand and research AI Union law from a German perspective and to better evaluate global legal competence (including that of lawyers with a German-European competence portfolio). In this respect, the course contributes to building bridges between a wide variety of actors in the certainty that this innovation in cooperation and competition will increase the chances of overcoming global, social, and technical AI challenges.

*The use of masculine language is for the sake of clarity, conciseness, and simplicity (KKE formula). This does not imply a denial of the existence of female competence—rather, it is a request not to reduce the grammatical masculine form to biological gender.
 

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