Projects & Grants

Primary focus: emergent technologies, the rule of law, and legal design — pursued through translational design, co-design, participatory, and critical making methodologies.

Research Focus

Emergent technologies + the rule of law + legal design

My research sits at the intersection of these three domains. I examine how artificial intelligence, blockchain, and the metaverse challenge existing legal categories, evidence frameworks, and governance architectures — and how rule-of-law principles (legality, legitimacy, accountability, access to justice) can serve as both an analytical lens and a design standard for technology regulation. Legal design is the practice that holds this together: translating legal complexity into accessible, human-centred instruments and platforms that make governance legible to those it governs.

Design Methods

Translational design

Moving research findings from academic contexts into applied legal instruments and policy tools — producing outputs that are simultaneously rigorous and usable by practitioners, regulators, and communities.

Co-design methodologies

Working alongside legal practitioners, policymakers, technologists, and affected communities to develop frameworks that reflect lived realities. Co-design treats those subject to law as active participants in its production, not passive recipients.

Participatory action research

Grounding legal research in the perspectives of the people it concerns — through stakeholder consultation, community engagement, and collaborative knowledge production. Applied particularly in legal design for development and governance in the Global South.

Critical making

A practice-based methodology combining hands-on making with critical reflection. Prototyping legal tools and platforms as a mode of inquiry — interrogating what law does and can do through the act of building it, rather than only theorising it.

Funded Projects

2026- 2027	`PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR` Visions of Justice Space _{TUM Think Tank Friedrich Schiedel Fellowship} Grant: €20,000
2024-2025	`CO-INVESTIGATOR`NLawP: Natural Language Processing and Legal Tech _{Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (IEAI), TUM}
2024–2025	`CO-INVESTIGATOR` New Dimensions of Data Governance _{TUM ProjectWeek Excellence Strategy}
2022–2023	`CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR` BDLG: Basics in Data Law and Governance _{TUM Excellence Strategy — Digital Teaching, Learning and Examination Formats}
2021–2022	`CO-INVESTIGATOR` The Rule of Law, Legitimacy and Effective COVID-19 Control _{Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (IEAI), TUM}
2021	`CO-INVESTIGATOR` Developing a Digital Toolkit to Enhance the Communication of Scientific Health Claims _{EU EIT Food}