People
Fellows
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.