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Achim Foerster, LL.M. ’06, has been elected Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Applied Sciences Wuerzburg-Schweinfurt, where he is a professor of copyright law, media law and media public policy. He was chosen for the post by the university’s council.

In this role, Professor Foerster will be part of the senior leadership of the university for an initial term of two and a half years and will work closely with the university’s president. Prior to his academic appointment, he was a public prosecutor at the Schweinfurt Prosecution Authority where he focused on internet and computer crime, and a judge at the District Courts of Bad Neustadt a.d. Saale and Schweinfurt. His current academic work focuses on copyright law and data protection with respect to educational use in a digital academic environment.

In 2020, Professor Foerster received a Bavarian State Ministry of Sciences and Arts Award for outstanding teaching.