Biography
Dr. Roland Vogl is a scholar, lawyer and entrepreneur who, after more than twenty years of academic and professional experience, has developed a strong expertise in legal AI, intellectual property law and innovation. Currently, he is Executive Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology and a Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School. He focuses his efforts on legal informatics work carried out in the Center for Legal Informatics (CodeX), which he co-founded and leads as Executive Director. Vogl is also a co-founder & board member of Merico, Inc., a software engineering metrics platform. In addition, he is a Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna, Austria where he teaches about United States intellectual property law. Dr. Vogl is also actively involved in the rapidly growing legal tech industry. He was named to the American Bar Association Journal’s group of „Legal Rebels,“ a highly-regarded group of legal innovators and he was previously selected as one of the Fastcase 50. In addition, Dr. Vogl is on advisory boards of trailblazing legalAI companies such as Midpage.ai, Montara AI, Ami Law, Clairvolex, Lawgood and the global legal information provider Thomson Reuters. In 2025, Dr. Vogl joined Antiportfolio Ventures, an early stage legalAI fund as a Venture Partner. Since 2022, he also serves on the Executive Committee of the International Association for AI and Law (IAAIL).
Previously, he co-founded and served as CFOO of Vator.tv. He also co-founded and served on the board’s compensation committee of SIPX, Inc., a copyright technology company which was acquired by ProQuest in 2015. He also served on the board of directors of McCain, Inc. – a Swarco company in the traffic solutions space. His experience also includes working as the first teaching fellow of Stanford Law School’s international LLM degree program in Law, Science and Technology, as an IP associate at Fenwick & West LLP, as a press associate at the European Parliament and as a law clerk at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Audiovisual Media, Information and Communication.
Vogl holds both a Dr.iur. (JSD) and a Mag.iur. (JD) from Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck, Austria as well as a JSM from Stanford Law School.
