Law and Tech Lab
At the Maastricht Law and Tech Lab, we believe that, with the help of data and AI, we:
- Produce more and better legal information to empower laypeople, improve legal practice, and create coherent and legitimate law.
- Can support, rather than take over, people’s everyday lives, in line with legal principles.
We do this with a team and as open(-science) as possible.
Explore the Maastricht Law and Tech Lab
Watch the video to learn more about our Lab, the people involved, our research and education.
Our researchers
The Maastricht Law and Tech Lab brings together a vibrant multi- and inter-disciplinary community from the Maastricht University Law Faculty and beyond.
The Lab houses a dynamic and diverse group of researchers, who bring legal and computer science expertise from public and private sectors and various jurisdictions.
Find out more about our research team here.
Lab Director: Gijs van Dijck
Education
We work to educate future generations of law and technology experts.
- Bachelor Programmes & Courses
- Master Programmes
- Professional Education
- Internships
Software, Datasets & code
The Maastricht Law and Tech Lab provides open access to research datasets and code and offers software.
Let's Collaborate!
The Lab maintains a rich network of collaborators in academia, industry, and government. Reach out if you are interested in working with us!
Sectorplan Digital Legal Studies
Within the Sectorplan Digital Legal Studies, the Law and Tech Lab will create a sustainable digital-legal research infrastructure. The research project focuses on:
- Creating a database (e.g. graph database) that stores and links metadata, initially focusing on publically available judicial and legislative datasets, that is suitable for
- Testing and developing analytical tools (AI), to
- Answer selected (empirical) legal research questions.
To achieve high-quality research infrastructures, collaboration is essential. Maastricht University therefore aims to be the initiator of creating a national and international platform that brings together and coordinates the activities for building digital-legal research infrastructures. On a national level, Maastricht University cooperates with Radboud University, Tilburg University and the University of Amsterdam in the Sectorplan Digital Legal Studies.
What is the sector plan?
Through the sector plan in Social Sciences and Humanities, the Dutch government is investing in the expansion of research capacity and the ability to attract and retain new research talent. The sector plans contribute to overarching aims, such as strategic cooperation between universities in the areas of research, education and social objectives. A sector plan grant provides additional funding for a six-year period from 2019-2025.
News from the Lab
BlueLab: preparing law students for responsible AI use
- Researchers
Meihe (Iris) Xu Successfully Defends PhD Thesis!
Reducing the Digital Divide: Empowering Students to Train, Evaluate, and Use AI Text Models
CoCoDa project receives funding from Swiss National Science Foundation
