Faculty Profile

• Ph.D. Political Science & Public Policy, University of Michigan (2011)
• J.D. University of Michigan Law School (2005)
• M.P.P. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan (2005)
• B.S. University of Oregon (2000)

Academic Positions Held

Current Appointment:

• Yong Pung How Visiting Professor of Law, Singapore Management University, 2025 - 2028

Other Positions

• Professor of Law, Chicago Kent - College of Law, 2018 - Present
• Jones Day Visiting Professor of Law at Singapore Management University, 2022
• Associate Professor of Law, Chicago Kent - College of Law, 2015 - 2018
• Associate Professor, Michigan State University, 2011-2015

Research Areas / Areas of Specialisation

• Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Society
• Legal Technology and the Innovation in Legal Sector
• Legal Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
• A Complexity Science Approach to Legal Studies
• Application of Scientific Methods in Law

Selected Publications

Please refer to Curriculum Vitae for more updates. 
SSRN author page: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=627779

• Pierpaolo Vivo, Daniel Martin Katz & J. B. Ruhl, CompLex: Legal Systems Through the Lens of Complexity Science, 149 Europhysics Letters 22001 (2025) <Europhysics Letters>
• Moriya Dechtiar, Daniel Martin Katz & Hongming Wang, Software Engineering Meets Legal Texts: LLMs for Auto Detection of Contract Smells, 20 Machine Learning with Applications (2025) <Elsevier>
• Daniel Martin Katz, Michael Bommarito, Shang Gao & Pablo David Arredondo, GPT-4 Passes the Bar Exam, 382 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A (2024) <Phil Transactions A>
• Corinna Coupette, Dirk Hartung, & Daniel Martin Katz, Legal Hypergraphs, 382 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A (2024) <Phil Transactions A>
• Ilias Chalkidis, Nicolas Garneau, Catalina Goanta, Daniel Martin Katz & Anders Søgaard, LeXFiles and LegalLAMA: Facilitating English Multinational Legal Language Model Development, In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the ACL - Association for Computational Linguistics (2023) <ACL 2023> <arXiv>
• Ilias Chalkidis, Abhik Jana, Dirk Hartung, Michael Bommarito, Ion Androutsopoulos, Daniel Martin Katz & Nikolaos Aletras, LexGLUE: A Benchmark Dataset for Legal Language Understanding in English, In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the ACL - Association for Computational Linguistics (2022) <ACL 2022> <arXiv> <SSRN>
• Corinna Coupette, Janis Beckedorf, Dirk Hartung, Michael Bommarito, & Daniel Martin Katz, Measuring Law Over Time: A Network Analytical Framework with an Application to Statutes and Regulations in the United States and Germany, 9 Front. Phys. 658463 (2021) <Frontiers in Physics>
• Daniel Martin Katz, Ron Dolin & Michael Bommarito (Editors), Legal Informatics, Cambridge University Press (2021) <Cambridge>
• Edward D. Lee, Daniel Martin Katz, Michael J. Bommarito II, Paul Ginsparg, Sensitivity of Collective Outcomes Identifies Pivotal Components, 17 Journal of the Royal Society Interface 167 (2020) <Journal of the Royal Society Interface>
• Daniel Martin Katz, Michael Bommarito & Josh Blackman, A General Approach for Predicting the Behavior of the Supreme Court of the United States, PLoS ONE 12(4): e0174698 (2017) <PLoS One>
• J.B. Ruhl, Daniel Martin Katz & Michael Bommarito, Harnessing Legal Complexity, 355 Science 1377 (2017) <Science>
• Daniel Martin Katz, The MIT School of Law? A Perspective on Legal Education in the 21st Century, Illinois Law Review 1431 (2014) <SSRN>
• Daniel Martin Katz, Quantitative Legal Prediction - or - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Preparing for the Data Driven Future of the Legal Services Industry,  62 Emory Law Journal 909 (2013) <SSRN>
• Daniel Martin Katz, Joshua Gubler, Jon Zelner, Michael Bommarito, Eric Provins & Eitan Ingall, Reproduction of Hierarchy? A Social Network Analysis of the American Law Professoriate, 61 Journal of Legal Education 76 (2011) <SSRN>
• Daniel Martin Katz & Derek Stafford, Hustle and Flow: A Social Network Analysis of the American Federal Judiciary, 71 Ohio State Law Journal 457 (2010) <SSRN>
• Michael Bommarito & Daniel Martin Katz, A Mathematical Approach to the Study of the United States Code, 389 Physica A 4195 (2010) <SSRN> <arXiv>
• Michael Bommarito, Daniel Martin Katz & Jonathan Zelner, Law as a Seamless Web? Comparing Various Network Representations of the United States Supreme Court Corpus (1791-2005)  in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (2009) <SSRN>