Category: ReMeP 2021

Professor Georg Borges studied law at the Universities of Frankfurt/Main, Geneva and Bonn as well as Economics at the Distance Learning University of Hagen. Currently, he holds the Chair of Civil Law, Legal Informatics, German and International Business Law as well as Legal Theory at the Saarland University. His habilitation thesis was titled »Contracts in… Continue reading Borges, Georg

Prof. Erich Schweighofer is Professor of Legal Informatics, International Law and European Law and head of the Centre for Computers and Law at the University of Vienna. He leads the Centre for Computers and Law – one of the top – 10 research groups in Legal Informatics worldwide. Erich Schweighofer is an international expert in… Continue reading Schweighofer, Erich

Born in Mainz, growing up & going to school close to Stuttgart & La Paz, Bolivia. Civil service in the Picardie in France before studying Law in Mainz, Paris and to some extent in Münster. He started as an attorney specializing in international arbitration & commercial litigation, but chose to take a detour to the… Continue reading Grupp, Michael

Michael Genesereth is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. He received his Sc.B. in Physics from M.I.T. and his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University. Genesereth is most known for his work on Computational Logic and applications of that work in Enterprise Management, Electronic Commerce, and Computational Law. He… Continue reading Genesereth, Michael

Max Cornelson born in 1998, was a member of the “Arbeitsgruppe Rechtsinformatik” by Prof. Schweighofer in the Research field: autonomous systems in road traffic and the law, esp. civil law and legal theory from 2019 to 2020. In autumn 2020, he obtained a doctoral degree in law with the dissertation: “Vertragliche Haftung bei Verarbeitung personenbezogener… Continue reading Cornelson, Max

Matthew Waddington is the deputy head of the Legislative Drafting Office for the island of Jersey, which has its own parliament and legal system (and a complicated relationship with the United Kingdom and the European Union). He has been working on “Rules as Code” since 2018, particularly focusing on how the logic of legislation could… Continue reading Waddington, Matthew

Joanna Sidhu is Director of Marketing at BRYTER. Joanna has over ten years of experience working in legal and technology. She started her career in London as a lawyer at global law firm, Ashurst, specialising in litigation and international arbitration before moving into legal technology.  Joanna leads on strategic communications and product marketing at BRYTER,… Continue reading Sidhu, Joanna

Helena Haapio is a lawyer and contract strategist by day and a researcher, author, and editor by night. She has had the good fortune of working with information designers and plain language experts who have taught her a lot. She is a co-founder and co-creator of the WorldCC Contract Design Pattern Library and currently co-editing… Continue reading Haapio, Helena

Hannes Westermann is a PhD student in the field of artificial intelligence and law at the Université de Montréal. He works at the Cyberjustice Laboratory and is the lead researcher of the JusticeBot project. JusticeBot is an online platform that aims to improve public access to justice through the use of artificial intelligence and was… Continue reading Westermann, Hannes

Guido Governatori received PhD in Legal Informatics in 1997 from CIRSFID, University of Bologna. Since then he had academic positions at Imperial College London, Griffith University, Queensland University of Technology, and The University of Queensland. He joined NICTA (now Data61), in 2008, where he leads the research activities on Business Process Compliance. His research interests… Continue reading Governatori, Guido