Adrian Hemler

Adrian Hemler is a legal scholar and postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law, University of Konstanz, Germany. His work bridges private law, conflict of laws, and computational methods through the innovative application of corpus linguistics to legal analysis. Since 2021, he has been advancing his habilitation project on Legal Corpus Linguistics, aiming to integrate empirical linguistic tools into German private law research.

• 10/2022–12/2024: Master of Arts (Corpus Linguistics), University of Lancaster, UK
• 10/2020–07/2021: Master of Laws (LL.M.), University of Cambridge (King’s College), UK
• 02/2016–02/2019: PhD in Law (Dr. iur.), University of Konstanz, Germany
• WS 2011/12–SS 2015: 1st German State Exam in Law, Free University of Berlin, Germany

Hemler’s habilitation project explores corpus linguistics as a tool for legal interpretation, predictability of court decisions, and formalizing indeterminate legal concepts. By analyzing massive legal text corpora (e.g., JuReKo), his work seeks to enhance legal certainty and enable semi-automated compliance checks in areas like data protection law.

The project also investigates comparative law applications, leveraging cross-jurisdictional legal corpora to resolve international legal ambiguities. Potential benefits include reducing subjective interpretation biases, lowering litigation costs, and improving accessibility of legal systems through empirical analysis.