Faculty Profile

• Ph.D. in Law (Dr.iur.) candidate, Leibniz University, Hannover
• 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)