People

Directors

Roland Vogl

  • Executive Director of CodeX - the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics
  • Executive Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology

Megan Ma

  • Associate Director of the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics (CodeX)
  • Associate Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science, and Technology
  • CodeX Fellow

Affiliated Faculty

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Daniel Katz

  • CodeX Affiliated Faculty
  • Professor of Law, Illinois Tech – Chicago Kent College
  • Director, The Law Lab, Illinois Tech
Julian Nyarko

Julian Nyarko

  • Professor of Law
  • Associate Director and Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI)
  • Faculty Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
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Houman Shadab

  • CodeX Affiliated Faculty
  • Director, Innovation Center for Law and Technology
  • Professor of Law, New York Law School

Affiliates

Staff

Former Fellows and Affiliated Faculty

Leila Banijamali

Leila Banijamali is a former CodeX Fellow and enterprise tech lawyer. She is Co-Founder & CEO at Symbium, a company founded during her work at CodeX.

Michael Guirguis

Former CodeX Fellow Michael Guirguis is Founder and CEO of SESO INC, a labor marketplace for agricultural workers. After studying economics at Stanford ('11), he served at the White House, working on housing policy, financial regulation, and education for employment at the National Economic Council.

Jerry Kaplan

Jerry Kaplan is a former CodeX non-residential fellow, widely known in the computer industry as a serial entrepreneur, executive, technical innovator, and author. He co-founded several Silicon Valley companies, including Winster.com (social games, 2004); Onsale.com (online auctions, 1994), GO Corporation (tablet computers, 1987), and Teknowledge (expert systems, 1981). Mr. Kaplan wrote the best-selling non-fiction novel “Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure” (Houghton-Mifflin, 1995).

Daniel Lewis

Daniel Lewis was a fellow at CodeX and a co-founder of Ravel Law. Daniel has a BA in International Studies from Johns Hopkins and a JD from Stanford Law (’12) where he focused on technology, cleantech, and criminal law.

Nik Reed

Nik Reed was a fellow at CodeX and a co-founder of Ravel Law. Nik graduated from Stanford Law School in 2012, where his studies focused on Start-up/Venture Law and International Law.

Michael Schmitz

Former CodeX Fellow Michael Schmitz is a social impact entrepreneur, environmental leader, and attorney working at the intersection of law, technology, and sustainability to catalyze prosocial behavior.

Daniel Schuman

Daniel Schuman was a CodeX fellow and is the policy director at Demand Progress, a grassroots organization with more than two million members that fight for a modern democracy. He also co-founded the Congressional Data Coalition, which brings together organizations from across the political spectrum to advocate for a tech-savvy Congress.

Joshua Walker

Joshua Walker, a former CodeX fellow, is Legal Counsel and CEO at OLAI Legal, and a co-founder of CodeX.

Bernhard Waltl

Bernhard Waltl is an academic researcher in computer science from the Technical University of Munich. His research focuses on semantic analysis of legal texts, applied artificial intelligence for the legal field (e. g. legal reasoning and Smart Contracts) and network analysis for legal documents. He was a visiting fellow at CodeX.