What challenges does digitalization pose for the law? What could Alexa or Siri do in a court of law and to what extent does digital decision-making aid the law? What consequences emerge from wrong digital decisions and what does it mean to say that a digital legal system is a market? In this podcast, we discuss these and other exciting questions together with Prof. Dr. Florian Eichel, Prof. Dr. Christian Matt and MLaw RA Daniel Pfäffli. Our guests are members of the interdisciplinary research unit "Law and Digitalization" at the University of Bern and have been dedicated to interdisciplinary work around the opportunities and challenges of digitalization in law for several years.
Prof. Florian Eichel has been a professor for debt collection and bankruptcy law, private international law, and Swiss, foreign, and international civil procedure law since 2018. He is also co-director of the Institute for Private International Law and Procedural Law at the University of Bern.
Prof. Christian Matt is professor and co-director of the Institute of Information Systems at the University of Bern.
Daniel Pfäffli (MLaw) is a lawyer and research assistant at the Institute for Private International Law and Procedural Law.