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Ass. jur. Osman Anil Basaran LL.M. Legal Tech (Regensburg)
Phd Student, KWARCie since 01.03.2024
(1) Computer Science FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (2) Law FAU FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (3) Legal Technology & Legal Informatics Universität Regensburg

Contact

<sub>Professorship for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.</sub> <sub>Mailing adress: Ebd., Schlossplatz 4, 91054 Erlangen.</sub> <sub>Visiting adress 1: Martensstr. 3, 91058 Erlangen.</sub> <sub>Visiting adress 2: Notare Prof. Dr. Axel Adrian und Dr. Bernd Weiß, Königsstr. 21, 90402 Nürnberg.</sub> <sub>Mobil-Tel.: 0176/415 127 48.</sub>

Description

I am a scientific and legal research assistant at KWARC working on the DIREGA-project.1

My current fields of research concern legal knowledge representation and legal reasoning. Both fields fall into the category of legal technology/legal informatics/legal tech/AI & Law.

<sub>(1) In short about my (past) academical CV:</sub> <sub>2015-2020: Diploma in Legal Studies at FAU (1st state’s exam $\implies$ Dipl. jur.).</sub> <sub>2020-2022: Legal Traineeship at Higher Regional Court of Nuremberg (2nd state’s exam $\implies$ Ass. jur.).</sub> <sub>2022-2023: Legum Magister in Legal Technology at UR (LL.M. Legal Tech (Regenburg) $=$ M.L.).</sub> <sub>2024-today: Research assistant in legal informatics and legal.</sub> <sub>2025-today: PhD candidate in the fields of AI & Law.</sub>

<sub>(2) In short about my (past) professional CV:</sub> <sub>2022-2024: Contract management at Department H3 for Third Party Funding and Scientific Affairs of FAU.</sub> <sub>2022-2025: Attorney at Law.</sub>

Following the aforementioned, You could technically call me the unicorn at KWARC.

Research Focus

Currently, I am working on (1) a flexiformal ontology of the (German) civil law, commercial registry law, European Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and European Artificial-Intelligence-Act (EU-AI-Act), as well as on (2) the legal foundation and its concepts. The (3) main-goal is to harvest the fruits mentioned in (1) and (2) to enable symbolic legal reasoning.2

Thesis Title

“Die Eintragungsfähigkeit eines Nießbrauchs am Kommanditanteil ins Handelsregister und das Flexiformal Legal Domain Model.”34

  1. To the entry at the Department of Law see here. ↩

  2. This work also includes work in the fields of e.g. logic, argumentation theory, ontologies. ↩

  3. Translation: “Formalism and computational reasoning in the legal domain illustrated at the entribility of a usufruct on a limited partner’s share”/”The entribility of a usufruct on a limited partner’s share and the Flexiformal Legal Domain Model”. ↩

  4. Supervisors: (1) Notary Prof. Dr. Axel Adrian, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Department of Law, Chair for Criminal Law, Criminal Procedural Law and Law Philosophy (Prof. Dr. Hans Kudlich). (2) Prof. Dr. Michael Kohlhase, Department of Computer Science, Professorship for Knowledge Reasoning and Representation. (3) Prof. Dr. Hans Kudlich, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Department of Law, Chair for Criminal Law, Criminal Procedural Law and Law Philosophy. ↩