Faculty Profile

Dirk Hartung is an Assistant Professor of Law at Singapore Management University's Yong Pung How School of Law, where he teaches legal technology as well as AI and Professional Ethics. He is an Affiliate of CodeX, the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, and Co-Founder of the European Legal Technology Association. From 2020 to 2024, he served as founding Executive Director of the Center for Legal Technology and Data Science at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, where he also directed the Summer Program on Legal Technology and Operations and the global MOOC Legal Tech Essentials. His research spans two strands: the application of artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and network science to legal systems – including work on legal complexity, citation networks, and large language models in law – and the regulation and transformation of the legal profession in the age of digitalization. His work has appeared in journals including Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, Artificial Intelligence and Law, and Nature Scientific Reports. He received his PhD in Law from Leibniz University Hannover and holds a law degree from Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany. In 2023, he was recognised with the Fastcase 50 award for his contributions to legal technology research and education.
 

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Law (Dr. iur.), Leibniz University, Hannover
• German State Exam (LL.M. equivalent), Hanseatisches Oberlandesgericht, Hamburg
• LL.B., Bucerius Law School, Hamburg

Course Taught in SMU

• Legal Technology, Operations and Digital Justice
• Ethics and Social Responsibility

Research Areas / Areas of Specialisation

• Computational Legal Studies and Legal Data Science
• Legal Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing
• Studies of the Legal Profession and Professional Regulation