Osman Anil Basaran

Description

I am a scientific and legal research assistant at KWARC working
on the DIREGA-project.[^1] My current fields of research concern legal knowledge representation and legal reasoning. Both fields fall into the category of legal technology. You could technically call me the unicorn at KWARC.

(1) In short about my (past) academical CV:

2015-2020: Diploma in Legal Studies at [FAU](https://www.fau.de/en) (1st state's exam := Dipl. jur.).
2020-2022: Legal Traineeship at Higher Regional Court of Nuremberg (2nd state's exam := Ass.jur.).
2022-2023: Legum Magister in Legal Technology at University of Regensburg (LL.M. Legal Tech := M.L.).

(2) In short about my (past) professional CV
2022-2024: Contract management at Department for Third Party Funding and Scientific Affairs of FAU.
2022-2025: Attorney at Law.

Research Focus

Currently, I am working on (1) a flexiformal ontology of the (German) civil law, 
commercial registry law, European Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and European 
Artificial-Intelligence-Act (EU-AI-Act), as well as on (2) the legal foundation
and its concepts. The (3) main-goal is to harvest the fruits mentioned in (1) and (2) 
to enable symbolic legal reasoning.[^2]

Thesis Title

"Formalismen & Maschinelles Schließen im Recht. Am Beispiel der Eintragungsfähigkeit eines Nießbrauchs am Kommanditanteil ins Handelsregister."[^3] [^4]

Footnotes

[^1]: To the entry at the Department of Law see here.
[^2]: This work also includes work in the fields of e.g. logic, argumentation theory, ontologies.
[^3]: Translation: "Formalism and computational reasoning in the legal domain illustrated at the entribility of a usufruct on a limited partner's share."
[^4]: Supervisors: (1) Notary Prof. Dr. Axel Adrian, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Department of Law, Chair for Criminal Law, Criminal Procedural Law and Law Philosophy (Prof. Dr. Hans Kudlich). (2) Prof. Dr. Michael Kohlhase, Department of Computer Science, Professorship for Knowledge Reasoning and Representation. (3) Prof. Dr. Hans Kudlich, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Department of Law, Chair for Criminal Law, Criminal Procedural Law and Law Philosophy.