Dirk Hartung

Dirk Hartung is the Executive Director of the Center for Legal Technology and Data Science at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany and a Non-Residential Fellow at CodeX – the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics at Stanford Law School, United States.

Dirk developed and mostly (co-)taught the technology curriculum at Bucerius Law School. This curriculum comprises the Legal Technology Lecture Series and the Technology Certificate, which consists of introductory classes in Computer Science, Statistics, Programming, Ethics and Software Development. Since 2018, Dirk has been Academic Director of the Summer Program Legal Technology and Operations. He is the co-host of the global MOOC Bucerius Legal Tech Essentials. Dirk supervises bachelor’s and master’s theses in computer science and law.

His normative scholarship focuses on Legal Technology in the areas of professional, procedural and comparative law. His quantitative research interests include computational legal studies, legal informatics, data science and natural language processing in the legal domain. In a joint effort with the Center on the Legal Profession and The Boston Consulting Group, Dirk regularly publishes analyses of the legal market, e.g. about Legal Technology (2016), Legal Operations (2018) and Digital Justice (2022).

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