Biography
Prof. Samuel Dahan is the Founder of OpenJustice, an open-source platform and community that provides no-code development tools, and hosting infrastructure for legal AI applications, enabling users to embed legal reasoning into language models. He is also the Head of Deel Lab, Deel’s research division dedicated to global employment policy and HR technology. He has spearheaded the development of a dozen AI projects, including the Deel AI Classifier, MyOpenCourt, and OpenJustice.
Dahan is an Associate Professor at Queen’s University Faculty of Law, the Director of the Conflict Analytics Lab at Queen’s, and holds visiting faculty positions at Cornell University, Paris Dauphine University, ENA, and Harvard University.
His previous roles include serving as a Cabinet Member at the Court of Justice of the European Union, Deel Chief of Policy as an Advisor for the EU Commission on financial aid programs in Eastern Europe, as a faculty affiliate at the Harvard Program on Negotiation, and Conflict Resolution Consultant at IRENE-ESSEC. He also clerked for the French Administrative Supreme Court (Conseil d’État).
Dahan’s research has been published in leading journals, including the International Journal of Economic Law, McGill Law Journal, European Labour Law Journal, Industrial Law Journal, Journal of Law and AI, AAAI, and ICML. His work has been featured in publications such as Business Insider, Global News, Bloomberg, Semafor, Børsen, and HR.com.
