Prof Dr Sarah Rachut
Prof Dr Sarah Rachut
About the person / career
Sarah Rachut holds the Junior Professorship for Public Law, Law of Digitalisation and Higher Education Law and is Deputy Head of the Institute for Law at the Technical University of Braunschweig.
Previously, Sarah Rachut worked at the Technical University of Munich as Managing Director of the TUM Center for Digital Public Services research institute and as a post-doctoral researcher at Prof. Dr Dirk Heckmann's Chair of Law and Security of Digitalisation.
Sarah Rachut studied Law at the University of Passau, specialising in European and international law, and completed her legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Munich.
Her comprehensive dissertation (774 pages) "Grundrechtsverwirklichung in digitalen Kontexten" was published in 2024 by Duncker & Humblot (Berlin) and has received several awards: the Bernd Hentschel Prize, the Science Prize of the Society for Data Protection and Data Security, and the Dieter Meurer Prize for Digital Innovation in Law of the EDV-Gerichtstag.
Sarah Rachut was also honoured as an outstanding young researcher by academics, the career network of the German Association of University Professors and Lecturers, for her extensive academic and social commitment. She came second in the "Young Scientist of the Year" awards. She was also honoured with the Young Leader in Gov Tech Award by Handelsblatt and Possible.
Research and work focus
Sarah Rachut conducts research on digital transformation in the light of constitutional law, in particular on fundamental constitutional issues in digital contexts, focussing on e-government, e-health and e-education, among others. In addition to European and national data law, she also specialises in (IT) security law and artificial intelligence law.
She is also an expert for the German Bundestag, spokesperson for the "E-Government Law" working group of the National E-Government Centre of Excellence (NEGZ), co-editor of the specialist journal Ordnung der Wissenschaft and a frequent author in the legal subject and commentary literature.