Martin Ebers

Martin Ebers (born 4 September 1970 in West Berlin) is a German jurist. Since 2019, he has been Professor of IT Law at the University of Tartu (Estonia). He is also co-founder and president of the Robotics & AI Law Society (RAILS e.V.) and Co-Director of the Institute for Energy and Competition Law in the Public Sector (Germany) at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
==Life==
Martin Ebers studied law, philosophy and music history at the Free University of Berlin. In 2001 he obtained a PhD degree in law from the Humboldt University of Berlin. From 2001-2007, Ebers worked as Assistant Professor at the Center for European Private Law at the University of Münster. In the years 2007-2015 research and teaching stays followed at the University of Barcelona and Eötvös Loránd University, among others.
In 2016, Ebers obtained his postdoctoral degree in law (Habilitation) at the Humboldt University of Berlin for civil law, European private and commercial law, private insurance law and comparative law. This was followed by interim professorships at the Leibniz University of Hanover and the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) as well as regular visiting professorships at the University of Turin.
In 2017, Martin Ebers co-founded the Robotics & AI Law Society (RAILS e.V.), where he still serves as president.
Since 2019, Martin Ebers is Professor of IT Law at the University of Tartu in Estonia. In 2022, he received a grant from the Wallenberg Foundation (Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Soft-ware Program) for a five-year guest professorship at the University of Örebro to carry out research with his team on "Private Rule-making and European Governance of AI and Robotics".
Ebers is related in a straight line to the Egyptologist and book author Georg Ebers.
==Work==
Martin Ebers' research and publications focus on IT law, in particular on Artificial Intelligence and robotics, as well as on German and European private and commercial law.
Ebers is co-editor of numerous journals, in particular Verbraucher und Recht (VuR), Recht Digital (RDi) and Legal Tech Zeitschrift (LTZ). In addition, he is co-editor of the book series "Data Law and New Technologies" published by Nomos Verlag and the book series "Data Science, Machine Intelligence, and Law" published by Springer Nature.
Ebers has contributed to numerous research projects in the field of European private law, including several expert opinions and studies for the European Commission. From 2019-2022, he participated as a Principal Investigator at the University of Tartu on the project "Machine learning and AI powered public service delivery". Since 2019 he is Principal Investigator in the project "Legal Aspects of Geriatronics" within the Lighthouse Initiative "Geriatronics", Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) at the Technical University of Munich and since 2023 Principle Investigator in the project "Private Rule-Making and European Governance of AI & Robotics" at Örebro University (Sweden), within the WASP-HS Program "The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Pro-gram - Humanities and Society".
==Bibliography (selection)==
===Monographs===
* Rechte, Rechtsbehelfe und Sanktionen im Unionsprivatrecht, Jus Privatum 212, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-16-154870-3
* Obligaciones, contratos y protección del consumidor en el Derecho de la Unión Europea y los Estados Miembros, Ara Editores, Lima (Peru) 2015 & Buenos Aires (Argentina), ISBN 9786124298059
* Die Überschußbeteiligung in der Lebensversicherung, Nomos, Baden-Baden 2001, ISBN 978-3-7890-7451-6
=== Editorships (selection) ===
* Stichwortkommentar Legal Tech, Nomos, Baden-Baden 2023, ISBN 978-3-8487-7180-6
* With Cristina Poncibo and Mimi Zou: Contracting and Contract Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Hart Publishing, Oxford and Portland, Oregon 2022, ISBN 9781509950683.
* With Marta Cantero Gamito: Algorithmic Governance and Governance of Algorithms: Legal and Ethical Challenges, Springer, Cham 2020, ISBN 978-3-030-50559-2
* With Susana Navas: Algorithms and Law, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020, ISBN 9781108347846
* With Christian Heinze, Tina Krügel and Björn Steinrötter: Rechtshandbuch Künstliche Intelligenz und Robotik, C.H. Beck, München 2020, 1034 pages, ISBN 978-3-406-74897-4
* With Hans Schulte-Nölke and Christian Twigg-Flesner: EC Consumer Law Compendium. The Consumer Acquis and its transposition in the Member States, München 2008, ISBN 978-3-86653-063-8
* With Gianmaria Ajani: Uniform Terminology for European Contract Law, Nomos, Baden-Baden 2005, ISBN 978-3-8329-1617-6
* With Reiner Schulze and Hans Christoph Grigoleit (eds.): Information Requirements and Formation of Contract in the Acquis Communautaire – Informationspflichten und Vertragsschluss im Acquis communautaire, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 978-3-16-148126-0
==Articles and book chapters (selection)==
* Artificial Intelligence, Contracting and Contract Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction, Martin Ebers/Cristina Poncibo/Mimi Zou (eds.), Contracting and Contract Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Hart Publishing, 2022, 19-40.
* Automating due process – the promise and challenges of AI-based techniques in consumer online dispute resolution, Xandra Kramer/Jos Hoevenaars/Betül Kas/Erlis Themeli (eds.), Frontiers in Civil Justice: Privatisation, Monetisation and Digitisation, Edward Elgar Publishing 2022, pp. 142-168.
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