Hanjo Hamann

Hanjo Hamann is an Associate Professor (tenure track) at EBS Law School, Wiesbaden, where he leads research in Contracts and Corporations from an Empirical Legal Studies perspective. He is also an Assistant Professor (tenure track) since 2022 and Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Language & Law. Previously, he held positions at Stanford University, European University Institute, and Wikimedia Germany Foundation.

• Doctoral degrees in Law (2014) and Economics (2016)
• Habilitation in Rechtslinguistik (2017)

His research integrates Legal Corpus Linguistics, Behavioral Economics, and Network Theory to analyze legal frameworks. He is a leading advocate for Open Access in legal academia and has pioneered datasets like the German Federal Courts Dataset and Global Monthly Tuna Fisheries Data.

Hamann's publications span topics from AI and Machine-Readability to Corporate Decision-Making, with a focus on empirical validation. His awards include the Laureate Fellow at Baden-Wurttemberg Academy of Sciences and Weizenbaum Fellowship. He teaches at Freie Universität Berlin and previously at universities in Bremen, Bonn, and Zurich.