Biography
Roland Vogl is a scholar, lawyer, and entrepreneur with over twenty years of experience at the intersection of legal AI, intellectual property law, and innovation. He serves as Executive Director of CodeX – the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics and Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School.
Vogl is also co-founder and board member of Merico, Inc., a software engineering metrics platform, Venture Partner at Antiportfolio Ventures, and holds a visiting professorship at the University of Vienna, where he teaches U.S. intellectual property law.
Recognized as a leader in legal technology, Vogl has been named an American Bar Association Journal “Legal Rebel” and selected as one of the Fastcase 50. He advises emerging legal tech and legal AI companies including Clairvolex, Midpage.ai, LogicalHealth, Lawgood, and MontaraAI.
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.
