Hannes Westermann

Hannes Westermann is a PhD student in Artificial Intelligence and Law at the Université de Montréal. He works at the Cyberjustice Laboratory and is in charge of the JusticeBot project, which aims to provide better access to justice through the use of Artificial Intelligence. Having grown up in Germany, Sweden and Luxembourg, Hannes graduated from Lund University in 2018 with a Master of Laws, writing a master thesis about privacy and big data, where he could combine his interest in law and technology. In his current work, Hannes leads a team of researchers at the Cyberjustice Laboratory, exploring how to apply artificial intelligence in the legal domain. Hannes has published a paper about his research at the “International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL) 2019” in Montréal, and his latest paper has been accepted to the upcoming “32nd International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2019)” in Madrid.