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Dirk Hartung is a leading scholar in computational legal studies and the digital transformation of the legal profession, recognized for his pioneering research, teaching, and leadership in legal technology and data science.
Combines interdisciplinary legal scholarship with advanced computational methods, bridging law, technology, and policy; recognized for leadership in legal technology education and research; impactful in shaping digital justice, regulatory frameworks, and legal education; frequent keynote speaker and advisor to academia, industry, and government; recipient of multiple teaching and innovation awards.
Focused research areas include Legal complexity and network analysis; AI and natural language processing in law; regulation of digital legal services; digital justice systems; comparative legal structures; legal education in the age of AI; empirical judicial research.
Combines interdisciplinary legal scholarship with advanced computational methods, bridging law, technology, and policy; recognized for leadership in legal technology education and research; impactful in shaping digital justice, regulatory frameworks, and legal education; frequent keynote speaker and advisor to academia, industry, and government; recipient of multiple teaching and innovation awards.
Focused research areas include Legal complexity and network analysis; AI and natural language processing in law; regulation of digital legal services; digital justice systems; comparative legal structures; legal education in the age of AI; empirical judicial research.
Areas of Expertise
Legal informaticsLegal technologyLegal data scienceComplexity theoryNatural language
Past Awarded Grant
- Tier 2 (amount undisclosed), MinLaw Database Project, Public Research Funding, Co-I.
- 29.000 SGD total, ANU-SMU Joint Grant Programme, Public Research Funding, Co-PI.
- 8.000 SGD p.a. (8.000 SGD total), Empirical Judicial Research Grant, Public Research Funding, Co-PI.
- 20-30.000 € p.a. (50.000 € total), Several Law Firms - Partial Grant for Bucerius Center for Legal Technology and Data Science, Private Third Party Funding, PI.
- 45-50.000 € p.a. (140.000 € total), Several Law Firms - Partial Grant for Bucerius Legal Tech Essentials, Private Third Party Funding, PI.
Latest Publications
Showing up to 6 latest publications from the past 5 years.
- Legal Tech Monitor 2025, Der Markt für die Digitalisierung von Rechtsdienstleistungen in Deutschland [2025]D Hartung, L GerlachLegal Tech Verband Deutschland e.V., 2025
- Legal hypergraphs [2024]C Coupette, D Hartung, DM KatzPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical …, 2024
- Legal hypergraphs (Software) [2024]C Coupette, D Hartung, DM KatzZenodo, 2024
- C Coupette, D Hartung, J Beckedorf, M Böther, DM KatzArtificial Intelligence and Law 31 (2), 335-368, 2023
- DM Katz, D Hartung, L Gerlach, A Jana, MJ Bommarito IIarXiv preprint arXiv:2302.12039, 2023
- D HARTUNGEIZ Publishing, 2023
- Ph.D. in Law (Dr. iur.), Leibniz University, Hannover, 2026
- German State Exam (LL.M. equivalent), Hanseatisches Oberlandesgericht, Hamburg, 2014
- LL.B., Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, 2013
Academic Positions Held
Current Appointment:
- Assistant Professor, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University, October 2024
- Affiliate, CodeX – The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, Stanford Law School, September 2020
Previous Appointment:
- Founder and Executive Director, Center for Legal Technology and Data Science, Bucerius Law School, May 2020-Sep 2024
- Academic Director, Summer Program Legal Technology and Operations, Bucerius Law School, Jul 2018-Sep 2024
Other Positions
- Co-Founder, dskrpt GmbH, Jul 2023 - Present
- Executive Director Legal Technology, Bucerius Law School, Jan 2017-May 2020
- Chief of Staff, Bucerius Law School, Jan 2015-Dec 2016
- Research Assistant, Irion Media Law, April 2011-Mar 2015
Course Taught in SMU
- Legal Technology, Operations and Digital Justice
- Ethics and Social Responsibility
Research Areas / Areas of Specialisation
- Computational Legal Studies and Legal Data Science
- Legal Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing
- Studies of the Legal Profession and Professional Regulation
Current Projects
- A Complexity Science Approach to Legal Studies
- The Future of Justice
- Global Lawyers in Emerging Economies – Southeast Asia
- Legal Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Selected Publications
- Google Scholar author page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=iyaDzMgAAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao
- SSRN author page: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2793991
- Artificial Intelligence in the Administration of Justice in S. Menon and A. Reyes (ed), Proceedings of the 4th Judicial Roundtable on the Future of Justice (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2024) (forthcoming)
- Legal Hypergraphs (2024) Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A. 382: 20230141 (with C. Coupette and D. M. Katz)
- Law Smells: Defining and Detecting Problematic Patterns in Legal Drafting (2023) Artif Intell Law 31, 335–368 (with C. Coupette, J. Beckedorf, M. Böther and D. M. Katz)
- Continuing Legal Education in Germany – Digitalization in A. Kellerhals (ed) Continuing Legal Education in Europe, (Zürich: EIZ Publishing 2023), 15–27
- Structural Comparative Law (2022) RabelsZ–The Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law 86.4, 935–975 (with C. Coupette)
- LexGLUE: A Benchmark Dataset for Legal Language Understanding in English in Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). Dublin, Ireland: Association for Computational Linguistics, 4310–4330 (with I. Chalkidis, A. Jana, M. J. Bommarito, I. Androutsopoulos, Daniel M. Katz and N. Aletras)