Schafer, Burkhard
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Director of the SCRIPT Centre for IT and IP law. Our work covers all aspects of technology regluation, from IP law to data protection to e-commerce to e-forensics.
Co-funder and co-director of the Joseph Bell Centre for Forensic Statistics and Legal Reasoning. The Center works on questions of legal technology and its role in the justice system. Most recently, this meant an interest in computational creativity, emotional AI, and what these concepts mean when applied to law.
Involved with a number of organisations that promote the exchange between computer science and law, including the German Association for Informatics (GI), BILETA, and the Evidence and Investigation network of the Scottish Institute for Policing Research.
Currently a member of the expert group of AI4People, chairing their working group on ethics framework for legal technology.
Member of the data ethics group of the Turing Institute.
Member of the legal technologist accreditation panel of the Law Society of Scotland.
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