My main research interests pertain to legal logic and artificial
intelligence and law. Moreover, I have been working on
various subjects pertaining to computing (in particular logic
programming and argumentation), legal theory (the concept of law,
legal validity), and computer law (data protection, intellectual
property. liability regimes and automation)
-Research interests
• Legal philosophy, legal theory
• Logic and argumentation
• Legal informatics
• Legal, ethical and political aspects of information and
communication technologies
• Artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, automatic
reasoning, agents and multiagent systems
• Legislation (theories and techniques)
• Liability and automation
-Current research projects
• ALIAS Addressing Liability Impact of Automated
Systems (Law and automation in socio-technical systems, in
particular liability issues in air traffic management)
• ONE-LEX - Ontologies for european laws in executable format
(legal ontologies, legal concepts, standards for representing
legal texts and legal knowledge)
• Models of legal rationality (rationality and reasonabless in
legal problem-solving, logical models of legal arguments,
dialogues, concepts and systems)
• A cognitive approach to the law (an integrated model of legal
reasoning, based upon the idea of cognition)
• Game theory and the law (game-theoretical analysis of legally
relevant interactions)
• Sharing knowledge in the information society (the interaction
between the discipline of intellectual property and the
production and communication of knowledge)
• Digital agents and electronic societies (legal regulation of
autonomous agents, norm-based governance of agents'
societies)
• Legislation techniques and legislative informatics (methods
for legislative drafting, management of legislative documents,
legislative information systems)
• The protection of trust in the information society (the idea
of trust, its interactions with legal reglations, its protection
and promotion in the digital word)
