Jan Oster is Professor for Private Law, Business Law, Media Law, Data Law and Digital Law at the University of Osnabrück. Professor Oster’s research focusses on legal questions of digitalization, especially the law of artificial intelligence, data and information law as well as media law. Professor Oster studied law at the universities of Mainz and Berkeley. Having finished his PhD at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, he worked as the DAAD Lecturer in Law at King’s College London from 2009 to 2013 and as an Assistant Professor for EU Law and Institutions at Leiden University from 2014 to 2022. In 2018, he completed his qualifying post-PhD thesis (Habilitation) at the Philipps University of Marburg. He holds visiting lectureships for International and Comparative Media Law and the University of Luxembourg and for Copyright, Media, IT and IP Law with the Bar Association in Koblenz.
