About Person

Person and career

  • 1969 Birth in Fürth
  • 1975 Enrolled in school in San Diego, Cal./USA
  • 1989 High school diploma at Hardenberg-Gymnasium in Fürth
  • 1989 to 1994 Study of law at the FAU
  • 1994 to 1996 Legal internship in Nürnberg and Ansbach
  • 1996 to 1997 Lawyer in the central legal department of Siemens AG
  • 1997 to 2000 Notary public in Feuchtwangen and Fürth
  • 2000 to 2006 Notary in Naila
  • Since 01.04.2006 Notary in Nuremberg
  • Since 2019 Honorary Professor at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • Mediator in commercial and industrial arbitration proceedings

Homepage of the notary’s office

Authorization to teach

Legal theory and legal design

Scientific focus

  • Philosophy of science, theory of law, legal methodology, philosophy of law
  • Legal-Tech, especially interdisciplinary questions of law and structural or computer science (logic, mathematics, computer science)
  • Constitutional law, electoral law, demography
  • Civil law

Previous teaching activities

  • Propaedeutic exercises in civil law.
  • Proseminars on the technique of exam preparation, on legal methodology, on the theory of science and on computer science (legal tech, legal theory and legal practice).
  • Seminar on the topic: Will the automatic judge soon be the judge? Interdisciplinary perspectives on „Legal-Tech“ with Mr. Cevc, Prof. Evert, FAU, Dr. Flessner, Prof. Hofmann, Prof. Kohlhase, FAU, Prof. Mayr, Dr. Merdes and Prof. Nöth, FAU.
  • Lectures on corporate law (with simulated notarization procedures).
  • Lectures on legal-tech and on questions of artificial intelligence and legal decision-making, as well as on the question of how legal-tech will change our everyday professional life. (with various guest speakers e.g. from Siemens, IBM, DATEV, State Tax Office, Autonomous Intelligent Driving, the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart and from the legal profession, etc.).

Research projects/interests

  • Anonymization and pseudonymization of court decisions (with Prof. Evert, FAU)
  • Development of a dialog bot for answering compliance queries (with RA Martin Kurtze, RAin Anabel Adrian, Aurelius Adrian)
  • Development of a contract creation assistant for certain types of contracts (with Aurelius Adrian)
  • Examination of contract clauses on BGH corpus (with Prof. Evert, FAU)
  • Digitization of law enforcement for shoplifters (Prof. Kudlich, Prof. Noeth, both FAU)
  • Formalization of legal knowledge and legal reasoning and argumentation, and machine reasoning (Prof. Kohlhase, Max Rapp both FAU)
  • Formal Argumentation Theory (with Prof. Steen, Geifswald University)
  • Argumentation mining in legal reasoning (Prof. Kohlhase, FAU)
  • Ontologies and Legal Reasoning ( with Dr. Cheptsov, HLRS – High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart- and Schönhof, IZS -Frauenhofer Institut Stuttgart-)
  • Legal and Technical Possibilities of Internet Arbitration Courts in Germany – Comparison with the „Internet Court“ in Hangzhou/China (with Prof. Gesk, University of Osnabrück)
  • Monograph: Basic Elements of Consequential Thinking (so far only working title, currently only in preparation)
  • Textbook: BGB der Suppenwürfel – Alles was ich im Bürgerliche Recht für das Examen wissen muss (so far only working title, currently only in preparation)

Other

  • Examiner in the oral first state exam for civil law and for the bachelor program.
  • Member of the board of the Digital Tech Academy of FAU.
  • Member of the Board of the KI-Park at FAU on Legal-Tech (Further information at: https://www.legal-ai.rw.fau.de).