Dr. Corinna Coupette
Lecturer, Legal Network Science: Modeling, Measuring and Mapping the Law
Corinna studied law at Bucerius Law School and Stanford Law School, completing her First State Exam in Hamburg in 2015. She obtained a PhD in law from Bucerius Law School and a BSc in computer science from LMU Munich, both in 2018, as well as an MSc in computer science from Saarland University in 2020. Her legal dissertation, which introduces legal network science to German legal discourse, was awarded the Bucerius Dissertation Award in 2018 and an Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society in 2020. In 2022, she was honored with the Caroline von Humboldt-Prize for her outstanding interdisciplinary research profile.
Corinna is currently a research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, where she pursues her PhD in computer science, a fellow at the Bucerius Center for Legal Technology and Data Science, where she advances legal data science, and a guest at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance. She regularly teaches computer science and programming to audiences from other disciplines, including lawyers. Corinna is an open science enthusiast. Her primary research theme is data, with emphases on exploratory methods for data analysis, expressive representations of graph data, and transdisciplinary projects. In the intersection of computer science and law, she strives to create high-quality datasets and develop domain-specific methods to measure, monitor, and manage legal systems.