Digitization, Uncertainty and Risk, Data and Information Law, Legal Theory

Prof. Dr. iur. Indra Spiecker gen. Döhmann, LL.M. (Georgetown Univ.), has held the chair in Public and Administrative Law, Information Law and Legal Theory at University of Cologne since 2024. She also heads the Institute of Digitization thereof. She is PI at the Institute of Information Security and Dependability (KASTEL) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Prior to Cologne, she held chairs at Frankfurt University and KIT; her Ph.D. was at Bonn University and her habilitation at Osnabrück
University/MPI Common Goods. Prof. Spiecker publishes in constitutional and administrative law with a specialization in data protection and digitalization regulation including AI, but also environmental law, IT-security, health law and technology regulation. She integrates interdisciplinary aspects from (Behavioral) Law and Economics, the Technical Sciences and Legal Theory. She serves as co-editor/publisher in a number of law journals. Prof. Spiecker is Co-editor of both the leading German and English article-by-article commentaries on the GDPR. In 2016, she was appointed to the German National Academy of Technical
Sciences. She is member of Leopoldina’s – Germany’s National Academy of Sciences – Focal Group “Digitization”.