Franziska Boehm

Franziska Boehm is a law professor at the Leibniz-Institute for Information Infrastructure in Karlsruhe (FIZ) and the Karlsruhe Institute for Technologies (KIT). Before she was an assistant professor at the University of Münster (Germany). She mainly teaches IT-Law, IP-law, data protection and media law. She studied law in Germany and in France and holds a 'Licence en droit' (University of Nice, France), a Master in International Law (MJI, University of Giessen) and the German 'Staatsexamen'. After her studies, she completed her PhD at the University of Luxembourg in April 2011. The topic of her PhD relates to the EU-information sharing and data protection in the area of freedom, security and justice. It was published as a book by Springer in 2012. Her research interests currently relate to data protection, IP- and IT law.

Institution

FIZ Karlsruhe GmbH - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure

Germany

FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, founded in 1977, is a non-profit organisation with approx. 340 employees (thereof 40% scientists) and a total budget of about 45 Mio. EUR. FIZ Karlsruhe is a member of the Leibniz Association, one of the major German research organisations comprising 89 research and scientific service institutions. FIZ Karlsruhe has the task to produce scientific-technical information and to provide related services. It also runs internal as well as public funded applied research projects. As an international service partner to science and business, FIZ Karlsruhe has strong expertise in handling all issues related to information transfer and knowledge management. FIZ Karlsruhe’s business segments complement each other with respect to the information offer and usage possibilities.