Ars Boni

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Careful law for digital public life.

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Ars Boni treats law as a working system under pressure from technology, courts, and legal institutions. Its conversations move patiently from definitions to concrete disputes, such as online surveillance, AI-related digital violence, age checks, and legal education.

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Ars Boni is a legal conversation series for people who want detail, context, and institutional memory. The show is not built around speed. It works by asking a clean question, then letting the answer widen into doctrine, examples, procedure, and consequence. Digitalisation is a recurring pressure point. One recent conversation with Professor Dr. Oskar Gstrein connects data autonomy, strategic autonomy, and digital sovereignty to the practical setting of universities in the Netherlands. Another returns to Sky ECC and asks how constitutional limits apply when surveillance evidence was gathered through measures that began elsewhere. The show treats these issues as legal problems with jurisdiction, evidence, rights, and implementation attached. It is equally willing to sit inside criminal law. The discussion with Professorin Dr. Susanne Beck looks at possible liability gaps around digital violence and AI-enabled sexualized manipulation, placing a current controversy inside a broader legal debate. Other episodes shift toward public legal education. Recht neugierig covers lay participation in Austrian criminal trials with Mag. Friedrich Barschuber and explains sports business law through football clubs, pyrotechnics, stadium violence, and criminal consequences. Ars Boni also follows technology policy in a practical register, including age verification on the internet and the limits of biometric or self-declared systems. A conversation with Professorin Dr. Amrei Bahr brings philosophy of technology into research applications and review, asking what happens when AI tools enter application writing and review writing. The show’s texture is seminar-like. It is sometimes dry, often technical, and comfortable with long answers. That patience is the point. Ars Boni gives listeners access to legal reasoning as it forms, especially where courts, universities, platforms, and public institutions are still deciding what the rules should mean.

Made for: For legally curious listeners and students who want slow, precise analysis of technology, courts, criminal law, and institutions. It suits people comfortable with dense expert interviews and German-language legal discussion.

What sets it apart: Ars Boni stands out by letting expert reasoning unfold without forcing every issue into a quick opinion. It links abstract legal concepts to concrete cases, from university data autonomy to surveillance evidence and AI-related digital violence.

In their own words

Ars Boni deals with Digitalisation, Media, Social Crisis (in particular the Covid-19 Crisis) and the Law, in different legal fields and in different countries. Ars Boni is a podcast launched by the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law, University of Vienna. Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Forgó serves as its host.

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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · August 2026

Ars Boni makes government legible through careful legal conversations about technology, courts, procedure, and public power.

Ars Boni belongs on the Government beat because it treats law, public power, and technical systems as one working system. In the sampled episodes, the show moves through AI in research assessment, online age checks, messenger surveillance before the VfGH, phone seizure in…

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  1. 1

    Recht neugierig - (Spezial-)Folge 15

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    Ars Boni 588 Falsch- und Desinformation auf Social Media (Julia Krickl)

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  3. 3

    Ars Boni 587 Rechtssatz ( Dr. Julius Schumann)

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    Ars Boni 624: Sky ECC und VfGH (RA Dr. Sven Thorstensen)

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    Ars Boni 623 Strafbarkeitslücken bei digitaler Gewalt? (Prof.in Dr.in Susanne Beck)

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    Recht neugierig - Folge 26: Laienbeteiligung im Strafverfahren

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    Methodenlehre SS 2026 I (Prof. Dr. Florian Möslein)

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    Recht neugierig - Folge 25: Sportwirtschaftsrecht

    ·27m
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    Ars Boni 617 Altersüberprüfung im Internet (DI Fabian Fischer/Dr.in Anna Pauls)

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    Ars Boni 615 KI-Begutachtung von Forschungsanträgen (Prof.in Dr.in Amrei Bahr)

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    Recht neugierig - Folge 24 „Mietrecht für Einsteiger*innen – Die erste eigene Wohnung

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    Ars Boni 608 Cybercrime (Paul Marouschek)

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    Ars Boni 616 Messengerüberwachung vor dem VfGH (Süleyman Zorba)

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    Ars Boni 618 Ambulante Gesundheitsdokumentation (Dr. Franz Leisch)

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    Recht neugierig - Folge 23

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    Ars Boni 614 KI in juristischen Prüfungsarbeiten (Dr.in Julia Möller-Klapperich)

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    Klima Klagen III

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    Recht neugierig - Folge 22 Bewährungshilfe

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    Pro Bono SHE*talks

    ·34m
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    Ars Boni 611 Informationssicherheit (NIS 2) (Otmar Lendl)

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    Recht neugierig - Folge 21: Wirtschaftsstrafrecht

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    Ars Boni 610 KI-Deregulierung (Dr.in Heidi Scheichenbauer und Dr.in Mirjam Tercero)

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    Ars Boni 595 - Methodenlehre, Juristisches Arbeiten und Legal Tech

    ·48m
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    Ars Boni 609 Digital non-sovereignty (Dependence) - Digitale Unsouveränität (Dr. Simon Gerdemann)

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    Recht neugierig - Folge 20

    ·24m
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    Ars Boni 605 KI und Legal Tech in der (Kanzlei-)Praxis (Marguerita Sedrati-Müller und Andrei Salajan)

    ·53m
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    WS 2025 Methodenlehre 02 (Dr.in Katharina Zwins)

    ·52m
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    Ars Boni 606 KI-Klauseln in Verlagsverträgen (Prof. Dr. Gerrit Hornung)

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    Ars Boni 603 Juristische KI Agenten (Charlotte Kufus)

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    Ars Boni Rechtschreibung 08: Dr. Filip Paspalj

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    Recht neugierig - Folge 17

    ·33m
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    Ars Boni 604 IT Security Compliance (Dr. Nils Haag)

    ·23m
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    Ars Boni 600: Digital Humanism (Prof. Dr. Peter Knees)

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    Recht neugierig - Folge 13

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    Ars Boni 601 Operation Sky ECC (Dr. Sven Thorstensen)

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    Recht neugierig - Folge 16

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    Ars Boni 599 Gesundheitstelematik (Dr. Franz Leisch)

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    Ars Boni 598 Rechtschreibung Dr. Alexander Grenzner

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    Recht neugierig - Folge 08

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    Recht neugierig - Folge 14

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    Ars Boni 597 - KI und Wikipedia (Nicole High-Steskal)

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    Ars Boni 596 Spracherkennung und KI in der juristischen (und medizinischen) Arbeit (Peter Jeitschko)

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    Recht neugierig - Folge 10

    ·23m
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    Ars Boni 592 Streitbeilegung mit Plattformen (Prof. Dr. Burkhard Hess)

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    Ars Boni 590 KI. Journalismus. Recht

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    Ars Boni 591 KI im wissenschaftlichen Publizieren (Dr. Rafael Ball)

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    Recht neugierig - Folge 12

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    Recht neugierig - Folge 11

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    Recht neugierig - Folge 09

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    Ars Boni 585 Recht im Nationalsozialismus (Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in Herlinde Pauer-Studer)

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    Sommerdiskurs 2025_07: Die Verteidigung europäischer Werte im Bild - Rubens' Schlacht von Nördlingen

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  52. 52

    Sommerdiskurs 2025_02: Water – An Increasingly Scarce and Disputed Resource

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    Sommerdiskurs 2025_06: Cyber (In-)Security

    ·1h 15m
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    Sommerdiskurs 2025_04: Potentiale stärkerer Resilienz - wirtschaftliche und soziale Perspektiven

    ·36m
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    Sommerdiskurs 2025_03 Europe under Stress What to Expect from the EU and its Institutions until 2029

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    Sommerdiskurs 2025_05: Geopolitical Developments Influencing Europe (Thomas Starlinger)

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    Sommerdiskurs 2025_01: Keynote 30/07/2025

    ·43m
  58. 58

    Ars Boni 584 Social Media Altersgrenzen und Europarecht (Dr. Lukas Feiler)

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    Ars Boni 583 Kinderrechte (Mag. Sebastian Öhner)

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    Recht neugierig - Folge 07

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    Ars Boni 582 Social Media Altersgrenzen (Barbara Buchegger)

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    Ars Boni 581 Beruf und Familie in der Anwaltschaft

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    Ars Boni 580 - Stellungnahme zur Causa „Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf“

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    Ars Boni 579 Terroropfer und Entschädigung (RA Dr. Karl Newole)

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    Ars Boni 578 Piratenradiogeschichte

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    Recht neugierig" - Folge 06

    ·19m
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    Ars Boni 577 Überwachungssoftware

    ·42m
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    Ars Boni 576 Machtfaktor Bundesverfassungsgericht

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    Ars Boni Rechtschreibung 06

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    Ars Boni 574 ORF-Gremien Seifenoper

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    "Recht neugierig" - Folge 05

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    "Recht neugierig" - Folge 04

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    Ars Boni 573 Art Law Clinics

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    Ars Boni 572 Special: Dr.in Susanne Lackner

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    „Recht neugierig“ - Folge 03

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    Ars Boni 571 Wikipedia und Trump

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    „Recht neugierig“ - Folge 02

    ·17m
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    Ars Boni 570 Handyüberwachung

    ·34m
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    Ars Boni 568 Spezial - Mag.a Birgit Schwarz

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    Ars Boni 569 100 Tage Trump

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    „Recht neugierig“ - Folge 01

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    Frauen im Spiegel der römischen Rechtsgeschichte (Ass.-Prof. Dr.in Birgit Forgó-Feldner)

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    Ars Boni 566 Scientific Policy Advice in Austria During the Pandemic (Dr. Thomas König und Dr. Michael Stampfer)

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    Ars Boni 567 Medieninnovation und Medienförderung (Prof. Dr. Andy Kaltenbrunner)

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    Ars Boni 565 Die Politisierung der österreichischen Spitzenverwaltung (Univ.-Prof. Dr. Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik)

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    Ars Boni 563 KI (Detektoren) in der Lehre (Lasse Bremer/Dr. Nicolaus Wilder)

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    Ars Boni 564 Fehlende Richterstellen (Dr. Gernot Kanduth)

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    Ars Boni 562 KI in der Hochschschullehre (Prof.(FH) Mag.(FH) Barbara Geyer, PHD)

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    Ars Boni 561 Diversität und unabhängige Antwaltschaft unter Trump (Professor Niko Härting)

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    Ars Boni 560 Chatbot Rechtsmentor (Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoeren)

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    Ars Boni 559 Gerichtssachverständige

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    Untangling the EU Artificial Intelligence Act: AI Literacy and Governance

    ·2h 41m
  93. 93

    New Era for Health Data: Secondary Use of Data in the EHDS and DGA

    ·1h 44m
  94. 94

    Ars Boni 558 Digital Governance in Österreich (SC Mag. Wolfgang Ebner)

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    Ars Boni 623 Strafbarkeitslücken bei digitaler Gewalt? (Prof.in Dr.in Susanne Beck)

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    Ars Boni 624: Sky ECC und VfGH (RA Dr. Sven Thorstensen)

    ·27m
  97. 97

    Ars Boni 607 Cyberscams (Dr. Anil Kumar Maurya, Associate Professor)

    Hidden gem

    Dr.

    ·46m·3 clips
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    Recht neugierig - Folge 19

    This episode features an interview with Professor Christian Koller about studying law, including its duration, career prospects, and required skills.

    ·22m
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    Ars Boni 602 Shrinkwrap Legal (Thomas Schreiber)

    This episode features an interview with Thomas Schreiber about Shrinkwrap Legal, an AI-powered browser extension that summarizes legal decisions in the RIS system for lawyers and legal professionals.

    ·22m
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    Recht neugierig - Folge 18

    This episode of Recht neugierig explores the topic of debt, focusing on why young people are increasingly becoming heavily indebted and explaining the differences between bankruptcy and insolvency.

    ·30m
  101. 101

    Pro Bono Our Rule of Law (ORoL)

    This episode features an interview with the founders of the Our Rule of Law Foundation, discussing youth involvement in European policymaking, their recent Our Democracy report, and tips for starting student-led initiatives.

    ·43m
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    Ars Boni 589 Update Handysicherstellung (MMag. Michael Hofstätter)

    Host Nikolaus Forgó interviews lawyer Michael Hofstätter about a Tyrolean case where police seized a mobile phone without judicial approval.

    ·21m·2 clips
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    Ars Boni 625 Digital Autonomy (Prof. Oskar J. Gstrein)

    This episode features an interview with Professor Oskar Gstrein discussing his work on data autonomy, digital sovereignty, and strategic autonomy, particularly in the context of universities and digital regulation.

    Apr 17, 2026·47m
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    Ars Boni 624: Sky ECC und VfGH (RA Dr. Sven Thorstensen)

    This episode discusses a constitutional case involving Sky ECC and the legal boundaries of online surveillance, focusing on whether evidence collected in France under French laws can be validly used in Austrian courts.

    Apr 8, 2026·27m
  105. 105

    Ars Boni 623 Strafbarkeitslücken bei digitaler Gewalt? (Prof.in Dr.in Susanne Beck)

    This episode features an interview with Professor Dr.

    Apr 4, 2026·57m
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    Recht neugierig - Folge 26: Laienbeteiligung im Strafverfahren

    This episode explores lay participation in criminal proceedings in Austria, featuring an interview with Friedrich Barschuber, President of the Vienna Regional Court for Criminal Matters.

    Mar 25, 2026·41m
  107. 107

    Methodenlehre SS 2026 I (Prof. Dr. Florian Möslein)

    This episode introduces a special edition of ASPONI focused on a university lecture series for law students covering methodology, legal work, and Legal Tech, featuring Professor Florian Möslein and technical support from a team to facilitate interaction.

    Mar 18, 2026·55m
  108. 108

    Recht neugierig - Folge 25: Sportwirtschaftsrecht

    Hidden gem

    ["Recht neugierig Folge 25 erkl\u00e4rt Sportwirtschaftsrecht anhand von Fu\u00dfball, Vereinsrecht, Schadenersatz und Strafrecht.", "Gast Manuel Dax, Doktorand und Universit\u00e4tsassistent am Lehrstuhl von Professor Thomale, beschreibt seinen Weg \u00fcber Wirtschaftsrecht und Betriebswirtschaftslehre an der WU Wien und ein Auslandssemester an der Bocconi.", "Er sagt, dass ein normaler Rempler oder ein hartes Foul im Fu\u00dfball nicht automatisch Schadenersatz ausl\u00f6st, weil der OGH die sporttypische K\u00f6rperlichkeit mitdenkt.", "Die Folge geht au\u00dferdem auf Pyrotechnik im Stadion, den Raufhandel in \u00a7 91 Abs.

    Mar 15, 2026·27m·2 clips
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    Ars Boni 617 Altersüberprüfung im Internet (DI Fabian Fischer/Dr.in Anna Pauls)

    Hidden gem

    On Ars Boni, Fabian Fischer and Anna Pauls discuss their study on age verification on the internet rather than a simple social-media ban.

    Feb 28, 2026·48m·4 clips
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    Ars Boni 615 KI-Begutachtung von Forschungsanträgen (Prof.in Dr.in Amrei Bahr)

    Hidden gem

    Ars Boni 615 on 24 February 2026 focuses on KI-Begutachtung von Forschungsanträgen with Prof.in Dr.in Amrei Bahr.

    Feb 28, 2026·50m·4 clips
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    Ars Boni 616 Messengerüberwachung vor dem VfGH (Süleyman Zorba)

    Hidden gem

    ["Ars Boni 616 speaks with S\u00fcleyman Zorba, the Greens' National Council deputy and digitalization spokesman, about the Greens and FP\u00d6 filing a third complaint to the VfGH over Austria's Messenger surveillance law.", "Zorba says the issue has stretched across almost ten years, from early Interior Ministry moves under Sabotka to Sebastian Kurz's first implementation, and he says the Greens blocked it in government because no constitutional solution was delivered for five years.", "He argues that the law is a legal fiction because only certain messages may be read while no software can guarantee that limitation, and he doubts a legal protection officer can inspect spyware source code in three months.", "He frames the case around parliamentary oversight, unanswered inquiries, the chilling effect of surveillance, and the risk that similar systems in Europe have been abused."]

    Feb 27, 2026·41m·4 clips
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    Recht neugierig - Folge 24 „Mietrecht für Einsteiger*innen – Die erste eigene Wohnung

    Feb 27, 2026·19m
  113. 113

    Ars Boni 618 Ambulante Gesundheitsdokumentation (Dr. Franz Leisch)

    Feb 23, 2026·43m
  114. 114

    Pro Bono Our Rule of Law (ORoL)

    Feb 17, 2026·43m
  115. 115

    Recht neugierig - Folge 23

    Feb 17, 2026·31m
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    Ars Boni 614 KI in juristischen Prüfungsarbeiten (Dr.in Julia Möller-Klapperich)

    Feb 5, 2026·46m
  117. 117

    Klima Klagen III

    Feb 4, 2026·35m
  118. 118

    Recht neugierig - Folge 22 Bewährungshilfe

    Feb 4, 2026·18m
  119. 119

    Pro Bono SHE*talks

    Jan 22, 2026·34m
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    Ars Boni 611 Informationssicherheit (NIS 2) (Otmar Lendl)

    Jan 18, 2026·56m
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    Ars Boni 610 KI-Deregulierung (Dr.in Heidi Scheichenbauer und Dr.in Mirjam Tercero)

    Jan 14, 2026·43m
  122. 122

    Recht neugierig - Folge 21: Wirtschaftsstrafrecht

    Jan 14, 2026·23m
  123. 123

    Ars Boni 595 - Methodenlehre, Juristisches Arbeiten und Legal Tech

    Jan 10, 2026·48m
  124. 124

    Ars Boni 609 Digital non-sovereignty (Dependence) - Digitale Unsouveränität (Dr. Simon Gerdemann)

    Jan 7, 2026·1h 2m
  125. 125

    Recht neugierig - Folge 20

    Dec 29, 2025·24m
  126. 126

    Ars Boni 605 KI und Legal Tech in der (Kanzlei-)Praxis (Marguerita Sedrati-Müller und Andrei Salajan)

    Dec 23, 2025·53m
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    Recht neugierig - Folge 19

    Dec 18, 2025·22m
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    Ars Boni 608 Cybercrime (Paul Marouschek)

    Dec 16, 2025·45m
  129. 129

    Ars Boni 607 Cyberscams (Dr. Anil Kumar Maurya, Associate Professor)

    Dec 15, 2025·46m
  130. 130

    Recht neugierig - Folge 18

    Dec 4, 2025·30m
  131. 131

    WS 2025 Methodenlehre 02 (Dr.in Katharina Zwins)

    Dec 3, 2025·52m
  132. 132

    Ars Boni 602 Shrinkwrap Legal (Thomas Schreiber)

    Dec 1, 2025·22m
  133. 133

    Ars Boni 606 KI-Klauseln in Verlagsverträgen (Prof. Dr. Gerrit Hornung)

    Nov 29, 2025·1h 2m
  134. 134

    Ars Boni 603 Juristische KI Agenten (Charlotte Kufus)

    Nov 24, 2025·51m
  135. 135

    Ars Boni Rechtschreibung 08: Dr. Filip Paspalj

    Nov 22, 2025·17m
  136. 136

    Ars Boni 604 IT Security Compliance (Dr. Nils Haag)

    Nov 19, 2025·23m
  137. 137

    Recht neugierig - Folge 17

    Nov 19, 2025·33m
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    Ars Boni 600: Digital Humanism (Prof. Dr. Peter Knees)

    Nov 12, 2025·34m
  139. 139

    Ars Boni 601 Operation Sky ECC (Dr. Sven Thorstensen)

    Nov 12, 2025·32m
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    Recht neugierig - Folge 16

    Nov 8, 2025·25m
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    Ars Boni 599 Gesundheitstelematik (Dr. Franz Leisch)

    Nov 2, 2025·50m
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    Recht neugierig - (Spezial-)Folge 15

    Nov 2, 2025·24m
  143. 143

    Ars Boni 598 Rechtschreibung Dr. Alexander Grenzner

    Nov 2, 2025·15m
  144. 144

    Ars Boni 597 - KI und Wikipedia (Nicole High-Steskal)

    Oct 28, 2025·39m
  145. 145

    Recht neugierig - Folge 14

    Oct 28, 2025·23m
  146. 146

    Ars Boni 596 Spracherkennung und KI in der juristischen (und medizinischen) Arbeit (Peter Jeitschko)

    Oct 21, 2025·59m
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    Recht neugierig - Folge 10

    Oct 17, 2025·23m
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    Recht neugierig - Folge 13

    Oct 17, 2025·21m
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    Ars Boni 592 Streitbeilegung mit Plattformen (Prof. Dr. Burkhard Hess)

    Oct 2, 2025·31m
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    Ars Boni 590 KI. Journalismus. Recht

    Oct 1, 2025·51m
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    Recht neugierig - Folge 12

    Sep 30, 2025·21m
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    Ars Boni 591 KI im wissenschaftlichen Publizieren (Dr. Rafael Ball)

    This episode introduces Dr.

    Sep 30, 2025·58m