Faculty

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. 

Esperanza Ferrando Nicolau holds a Law and doctoral degrees from the University of Valencia, as well as an MBA. She is a Senior Lecturer in Civil Law at CEU Cardenal Herrera University, where she teaches both core and elective courses across undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her academic work also spans areas such as Natural Law, Legal Ethics, and Professional Deontology.

In addition to her academic work, she has held numerous leadership roles, including Director of the Private Law Department, Vice Dean, and, most recently, Dean of the Faculty of Law, Business, and Political Science (2017–2025). 

Jenni Hakkarainen is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki. Currently she works at the faculty of Social sciences, Institute of criminology and legal policy. She is also a researcher at the Legal Tech Lab. 

Her teaching and research focuses on socio-legal approach on technology, access to justice and technology regulation.

Laura Jugel is a Legal and Policy Officer at the European Commission, where she works in the European AI Office in the team responsible for AI Regulation and Compliance.

Laura has been closely involved in the preparation and negotiations of the EU AI Act. In her current role, she works on coordinating and overseeing the implementation of the EU AI Act. Her areas of focus are the classification of AI systems as high-risk and the implementation of the EU AI Act within EU Member States.

Laura is a German fully qualified lawyer and has studied at the University of Mannheim and Sciences Po Paris.

Prof. Dr. Christoph Kumpan, LL.M. (Univ. of Chicago), Attorney at law (New York) holds the Chair of Civil Law, Corporate Law and Capital Market Law at Bucerius Law School sponsored by the Dr. Harald Hack Foundation. He is the executive director of the Institute for Corporate and Capital Markets Law, director of the Notary Law Center for Family Companies, director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Energy, Climate and Sustainability and project leader of the Network for Artificial Intelligence and Law. His research focuses on corporation and capital markets law, fiduciary law and market organization law including a comparative perspective with an emphasis on the U.S. and England and economic analysis of the law.

Before joining Bucerius Law School, Christoph Kumpan held the chair for Private Law, Company and Business Law, Comparative Law and Conflicts of Laws and was a director of the Institute for Economic Law at the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg. Prior to these appointments, he worked as a guest professor at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin and as an acting professor at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Christoph Kumpan has worked as a research associate and senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. He spent two terms as a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK, was a member of the working group of the Commission of Stock Exchange Experts under the Federal Ministry of Finance, an advisory counsel to the Federal Ministry of Finance regarding prospectus liability, and a short-term-expert of the EU for takeover law harmonisation in Turkey. Now he is a member of the working group “Finanzmarktgesetzgebung beim Bundesministerium der Finanzen“ and of the New York bar.

Christoph Kumpan studied at the Humboldt University Berlin, the University of Heidelberg and The University of Chicago (LL.M.) and received his doctorate (on the regulation of alternative trading systems) and his Habilitation (on the law governing conflicts of interest) from the University of Hamburg. He received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation and the ZEIT Foundation, the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, the Academic Award 2005 (1st Place) of the Deutsches Aktieninstitut and a scholarship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

Linda Kuschel holds the Junior Professorship for Civil Law, Intellectual Property Law, and Law and Digitalization since June 2019. She studied law at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. After her First State Exam in 2010, she completed her legal traineeship in Berlin (Second State Exam in 2012). In 2014 she received her LL.M.-degree from Harvard University and in 2018 her doctorate at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin with a dissertation on "The Acquisition of Digital Copies of a Work for Private Use". She was a research assistant to Prof. Dr. Katharina de la Durantaye, LL.M. (Yale) at Humboldt-Universität Berlin from June 2012 to June 2013 and from July 2014 to March 2018. From April 2018 until her appointment to Bucerius Law School, she worked for the Humboldt Law Clinic Internetrecht under the direction of Prof. Dr. Axel Metzger, LL.M. (Harvard).

Valérie M. Saintot, LL.M., Phd, is a multidisciplinary legal expert, educator, and advocate for innovation in business and the public sector. With three decades of experience spanning EU public and private sectors as well as academia, she teaches leadership, change, LegalTech, AI, and organizational performance. Valérie integrates philosophy, ethics, and design thinking into her work. Known for her groundbreaking insights at the intersection of technology, project management and mindfulness, she inspires leaders to embrace digital transformation and personal growth to impactfully contribute to society using life centric pathways.

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.