Experience

Post-Doctoral Researcher

  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
  • Karlsruhe, Germany
  • 2024 – 2025

Working on the DROPS project for legally sound processing and escrow of leaked identity data. Research in privacy law, AI ethics, and computational methods.

Privacy Law AI Ethics Legal Tech

CyberSecurity Engineering and Consulting

  • Science&Design
  • Remote
  • 2023 – 2024

Advising on legal issues for Hushline tip-line and deploying cyber security training solutions.

Cybersecurity Legal Consulting

Legal Technologist (freelance)

  • Joseflegal
  • Australia/Remote
  • 2023 – 2023

Market research on legal chatbots, optimizing knowledge bases, and developing training strategies.

Legal Chatbots Knowledge Management

Researcher

  • University of Bologna
  • 2022 – 2023

Data annotation for the ADELE (Analytics for DEcision of LEgal cases) Project

data annotation

Co-Managing Editor for Glossary of Decentralised Technologies

  • Internet Policy Review
  • Berlin/Remote
  • 2022 – 2023

Review of submitted entries, team coordination and organisation of reviewers.

Decentralised Technologies NFTs IT Law

Collaborator with LogicalContracts

  • 2022 – 2022

Reviewing and translating LogicalEnglish code.

Law as code Legal logic Legal tech

Visiting Professor

  • IE Law School
  • Madrid, Spain
  • June 2022 – July 2022

Co-Teaching Practical AI - Computational Methods for Law. Teaching part of an elective course for the LL.M, lesson preparation and organisation with colleagues, engaging with students and grading presentations and assignments.

AI & Law Teaching Computational Methods

Visiting Researcher

  • University of Tartu
  • Tartu/Remote
  • June 2021 – Dec 2022

Research Project “Machines that make and keep promises”. Researching collaboration on legal, socio-legal and technical questions of contract automation and digitized contracts.

Contract Automation Legal Research Legal Tech

Legal Engineer

  • Lexon Foundation
  • Remote
  • 2019 – 2021

Legal research on smart contracts, working with the Lexon CNL and creating an IDE interface.

Smart Contracts Legal Engineering Blockchain

contributoragreements.org

  • Shuttleworth Foundation
  • Berlin
  • Nov 2012 – Present

Legal research and advice regarding open-source licensing. Development of WordPress Themes and Plugins. Server-less JS implementation of a license generator. Coordination with international colleagues.

Open Source Licensing Legal Research Web Development

Contributor

  • ifrOSS
  • Sept 2012 – 2022

Writing articles about open-source licensing and copyright. Technical support.

Open-Source Copyright Legal Writing

Research Contract EU Law

  • Lund University
  • Lund
  • Sept 2012 – Dec 2012

Research Assistance for Prof. Dr. Xavier Groussot about the ’ne bis in idem’ principle in EU law and its relation to the ECHR and the CFR.

EU Law Legal Research

Intern

  • jbb Rechtsanwälte
  • Berlin
  • Aug 2012 – Aug 2012

Case analysis, with a focus on software licensing and software contracts. Translation of legal documents.

Software Licensing Legal Internship

Teaching Experience

Course in AI and Law

  • Madrid, Spain
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Education

PhD in Law

  • European University Institute
  • Florence, Italy
  • 2015 – 2022

Thesis: “The uncanny valley of computable contracts” - Analysis of computable contract formalisms with focus on controlled natural languages.

Contract Law Legal Technology Computational Methods

LL.M. in European Business Law

  • Lund University
  • Lund, Sweden
  • 2012 – 2013

Thesis: “The Concept of Interoperability in European Union Law” - Analysis in Competition Law and Intellectual Property Law.

EU Law Competition Law IP Law

LL.B in Law (European Law School)

  • Maastricht University
  • Maastricht, Netherlands
  • 2009 – 2012

Thesis: “The European Cartel Office (ECO) Revisited”

European Law Competition Law

Open Source Projects

pyeurlex

Python module to query and parse EU cellar repository for legal research.

Python Legal Research EU Law

minCon

Minimal Contract Language - CNL parser in Prolog for contract automation.

Prolog Contract Automation NLP

ca-cla-chooser

Maintenance of contributor licensing agreements chooser tool.

Open Source Licensing Legal Tools

PLDF - Private Legal Document Framework

Legal Tech Document Automation