I work at the frontier of intellectual-property law, asking which intangible things the law can protect and what kinds of knowledge commons we might build in their place.
I am a legal researcher and consultant working across intellectual property, open-source, and artificial intelligence.
My doctoral research at the CZS Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Law in Tübingen examines the outer edges of IP: which intangible objects the law can and should protect, and how knowledge might instead be stewarded in common. Alongside research I advise organisations as a legal consultant with Plaza Consultancy in the Netherlands, and co-teach the CIVIS micro-programme on EU digital-health law and the use of AI in health and wellbeing.
I read law as one thread in a much older story about technology and human life. I am drawn especially to Heidegger's idea of poiesis: the hope that technology might be not merely mechanical but genuinely creative, even beautiful, and might help us realise something of our higher potential.
Where the categories of intellectual property reach their limit: which intangible objects can be owned, which resist ownership, and what the law does when older doctrines meet new kinds of creation.
What institutional arrangements let us hold knowledge in common rather than enclose it, and how such commons might be designed, governed, and made durable.
My central project: the legal puzzles of open-source artificial intelligence. How can models, weights, and data be licensed, and do our open-source traditions still fit what AI has become?
Early work introducing computational law and legal analytics to Turkish legal scholarship: the methods, and what quantitative and computational thinking can and cannot offer the law.
I take on a limited number of consulting engagements through Plaza Consultancy, helping organisations make sense of the law where intellectual property, open-source, and artificial intelligence meet.
Protecting, structuring, and reasoning about rights in intangible and AI-generated work.
Licensing models, weights, and data; navigating open-source obligations for AI systems.
Orientation across the AI Act and the European data and IP acquis.
Legal questions where AI tools meet health and wellbeing.
If that sounds useful, get in touch.
I also write essays on law, technology, and philosophy. Read them on Substack ↗
Co-assistant on the CIVIS micro-programme on EU law and the use of AI tools in health and wellbeing.
An introduction to computational law delivered to computer-science students.
Technology need not be only a machinery of efficiency. After Heidegger, I keep faith with poiesis: a bringing-forth in which the technical and the beautiful are not opposed, and in which our tools might help us become more fully human.
Second dan
Studying the longsword at Lebendige Schwertkunst, Tübingen
Always glad to talk law, technology, philosophy, or swords.