I am an Assistant Professor in Law & AI at Maastricht University’s Maastricht Law and Tech Lab. I combine legal analysis with empirical and qualitative research into large legal corpora, using computational methods to understand legal reasoning and improve access to justice.
I earned my doctorate at Université de Montréal, where I developed JusticeBot, a platform that uses AI to help people understand their legal rights and has been used over 50,000 times. My work connects the analysis of legal decisions with the development and evaluation of practical tools. My collaborative work received Best Paper Awards at JURIX in 2020 and 2023, and my work has been featured in the Financial Times. I am the program chair for JURIX 2026.
I am serving as program chair for JURIX 2026, taking place in Toulouse on 8–10 December 2026. Conference details
I am a co-recipient of an OpenUP grant for “Critical AI literacy and open-source local AI use”, with Bram Rijsbosch and Lucas Giovanni Uberti-Bona Marin. CV · grants and awards
I am a co-recipient of the approved 24-month NWO TDCC project “LegalBlocks: FAIRified Lego-Style Application Development for Legal Research Software”, led by Shashank Chakravarthy. CV · grants and awards
My research combines computational analysis of legal data with the design and evaluation of AI tools for access to justice. I study legal reasoning in large collections of decisions and develop systems that help people navigate legal problems.
I teach law students to work critically and practically with AI, programming and legal data. My courses include Advanced Legal Analytics and Legal Data Analysis and Ethics, and I coordinate Maastricht University’s Master’s specialisation in Law & AI.
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
Mapping legal criteria to the language of adjudicatory decisions with large language models.
AI for Access to Justice Workshop at JURIX 2024
Exploring multimodal language models for analyzing images of legal documents and supporting access to justice.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
A methodology for building augmented-intelligence tools that help laypeople access justice.