Professor Burkhard Schafer is Co-founder  and from 2010-2021 Director of the SCRIPT center for IT and IP law. He is an affiliated member of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Cyber Security and Privacy CASP at the School of Informatics at Edinburgh.  He holds degrees in logic, philosophy and computer linguistics from the Universities of Munich, and a Master in Law from the University of  Lancaster. His main field of research is the interface between computer technology, science and the law, in particular questions of formalization of legal reasoning, law compliance by design and legal expert systems. He has published more than 120 papers in the field of legal expert system design, the semantic web, and on legal responses to new technologies from a comparative perspective. He is Senior Visiting Research Fellow of the Centre for Social Innovation research at the University of New Brunswick, Canada; and held visiting positions at the universities of Sao Paolo, Graz and Grenoble. He is a member of the Rechtsinformatik (Legal informatics) working group of the German Gesellschaft fuer Informatik and chair of the “Legal services” expert group of AI4People.  He served as member of the “New technologies in policing” expert group of the Scottish Government, the “Digital Ethical Scotland” expert group of the Scottish Government and the data ethics group of the Uk Cabinet Office. He is also member of the accreditation panel for legal technologists of the Law Society of Scotland.