David Bartlitz
Prof. Dr. David Bartlitz is Chair of German and International Corporate Law at the University of Paderborn. He studied law at the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg. After finishing his doctorate on the topic: “The liability of the limited partner on the basis of corporate law principles”, he completed his legal clerkship in the district of the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court. After his second state examination in law, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chair of Private Business Law at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. His main research interests are civil law as well as corporate and banking law.
Digital Legal Fact Research
Research into legal facts serves to identify actual deviations of legal effects from legal objectives, to determine actual problems in legal practice and to analyse actual circumstances to support legal-dogmatic interpretation processes. It differs significantly from the “classical”, purely normative legal science and is much more similar to the empirical economics and social sciences.
So far, legal fact research in Germany has only been carried out in an analogue manner. The idea of digital legal fact research, however, consists in obtaining and analyzing legal facts for the first time using business informatics working methods.