Faculty

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.

Bill Henderson holds the Stephen F. Burns Chair on the Legal Profession at Indiana University Maurer School of Law. His research focuses on the empirical analysis of the legal profession and legal education, he has also developed courses on project management, law firms economics, leadership and professional responsibility combined with lawyer development.

Bill's academic work has appeared in leading legal journals. He also regularly publishes articles in The American Lawyer, The ABA Journal, and The National Law Journal. Based on his research and public speaking, Bill was included on the National Law Journal's list of The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America. In 2015 and 2016, he was named the Most Influential Person in Legal Education by The National Jurist magazine and in 2000 as a "Legal Rebel" by the ABA Journal.

In 2010, Bill co-founded Lawyer Metrics, an applied research company that helps lawyers and law firms use data to make better operational and strategic decisions. Lawyer Metrics (now LawyerMetrix) was acquired by AccessLex Institute in 2015. In 2017, Bill founded Legal Evolution, an online publication that chronicles successful innovation within the legal industry.

Dr. Valérie M. Saintot, LL.M., is the former Head of the Legislation Division at the European Central Bank; adjunct professor at SKEMA business school (France), and a doctoral supervisor with the University of Gloucestershire (UK).

Valérie is an active member of the Liquid Legal Institute and recently contributed to the update of the Legal Digitalization Guide. She has authored articles on the visual navigation of the law and legal knowledge visualization. She is also actively promoting the transformation of legal ecosystems to take better advantage of technology and modern management and leadership tools and methodologies, including mindfulness for lawyers’ well-being’.

Rajitha Boer is a Managing Director at Breakwater Solutions Switzerland AG. Ms. Boer is responsible for leading the company’s market development strategy and execution in the EU and UK. Ms. Boer has deep experience in global market-making and relationship development, with subject matter expertise in technology-enabled solutions and legal data risk management. Prior to Breakwater, Ms. Boer was the founder and CEO of Yerra Solutions AG, a legal and eDiscovery company, now a part of Elevate Services, Inc. Ms. Boer has an MBA (Financial Management and Information Systems) and an MS in Computer Information Systems.

Mr. Flaherty is co-founder Chief Strategy Officer of LexFusion. Prior to LexFusion, he worked for Baker McKenzie, where he served as Director of Legal Project Management building a global team of 55 experts in offices across the globe. Prior to Baker, Casey was a Biglaw litigator, in-house counsel, and legal operations consultant. 

Josh is Co-founder & Design Lead at Bold Duck. Prior to Bold Duck, he has worked with some of the world’s biggest brands like Microsoft, Verizon, Adecco, and Thomson Reuters, building services and products for business and legal teams. 

Shannon Salter is Deputy Minister to the Premier, Head of the BC Public Service and Cabinet Secretary with the government of British Columbia. She was previously Deputy Attorney General and Deputy Minister Responsible for Housing for British Columbia. She also served as Chair of the Civil Resolution Tribunal, Canada’s first online tribunal resolving small claims, condominium disputes, and motor vehicle accident disputes for almost 8 years. She is also an adjunct professor at the UBC Allard School of Law, where she has taught administrative law and legal ethics and professional regulation. She earned her BA and LLB from UBC, and her LLM from the University of Toronto. Ms. Salter was a BC Supreme Court judicial law clerk before practicing civil litigation at a large Vancouver firm. She has served as a vice chair of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal, vice president of the BC Council of Administrative Tribunals, a director of the BC Financial Services Authority and a Law Society of British Columbia disciplinary hearing panel member. She is past board member of the Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII).

In 2021 Ms. Salter was named an ABA LRTC Women of Legal Tech Honouree, and was previously named one of the 25 Top Most Influential Lawyers in Canada, one of Canada’s New Law Pioneers by the Canadian Bar Association and an Access to Justice All-Star by the National Self-Represented Litigants Project (NSLAP). She received the Adam Albright award for outstanding teaching by an adjunct professor in 2016. Ms. Salter is also a fellow of the National Centre for Technology and Dispute Resolution at the University of Massachusetts and a visiting professor at the Sir Zelman Cowan Centre in Victoria University in Melbourne. Ms. Salter is a frequent speaker at international conferences on online dispute resolution, administrative law, legal education, and the future of law and technology.

Roland Vogl is a lawyer, scholar and media entrepreneur who, after nearly fifteen years of professional and academic experience, has developed a strong expertise in intellectual property and media law, innovation and legal informatics. Currently, he is Executive Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology (LST). He focuses his efforts on legal informatics work carried out in the Center for Legal Informatics (CodeX), which he co-founded and leads as Executive Director. Also, he researches international technology law through the Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (TTLF), a think-tank dedicated to transatlantic tech law and policy issues.