Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov is Professor of law and co-director of the dual degree program in law and political science at Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law, where he was also the inaugural head of the Lab for Law, Data & AI. He serves as General Editor of the international journal The Theory and Practice of Legislation, on the Executive Board of the International Association of Legislation and Chair of the Israeli Association of Legislation. He also serves as member of the Executive Board of the Data-Science & AI Institute and Senior Fellow at the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Digital Governance. He taught at various universities around the world, including Columbia University, New York (where he was an Associate-in-Law for four years), University of Zurich, and Charles University, Prague.
Bar-Siman-Tov's research areas include legisprudence, parliamentary studies, legislation and regulation; constitutional law and constitutional theory; and law and data science/ artificial intelligence. He is particularly interested in research that is at the intersection of these areas. And this is exactly the type of project he will pursuing here in Graz: “Legisprudence in the age of AI.” Bar-Siman-Tov feels that Uni Graz is the perfect place for this research project because it offers a great combination of expertise and opportunities in all these relevant fields. He is very much looking forward to being hosted by the Institute of Public Law and Political Science and to working with Christoph Bezemek, and to interacting with additional colleagues across these fields.