Dr. Masha Medvedeva is an Assistant Professor in Legal Technologies at eLaw – Center for Law and Digital Technologies (institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Law) and at the department of Business Studies (institute of Tax Law and Economics).

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Dr. Masha Medvedeva is an Assistant Professor in Legal Technologies at eLaw – Center for Law and Digital Technologies (institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Law) and at the department of Business Studies (institute of Tax Law and Economics). She is a researcher in AI and Law. Masha holds a joint masters degree in Language and Communication Technologies from Saarland University (MSc) and University of Groningen (MA). Through her interest in automation and text analytics, Masha has come to work in the legal domain. Masha’s PhD focused on analysing and developing systems designed to predict court decisions. Much of her work concerned the judgements of the European Court of Human Rights and Dutch case law.

Masha has a strong background in researching limitations of legal technologies and their impact on legal practice, and is one of the authors of the Typology of Legal Technologies.

Masha’s professional interests include improving accessibility to justice, prevention of algorithmic (in)justice, legal analytics, interpretability of NLP models, automation through AI, and related areas.

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