Law and Technology Innovator Daniel Martin Katz to join IIT Chicago-Kent Faculty

Daniel Martin Katz

Daniel Martin Katz

Daniel Martin Katz, a leader in using technology to advance the study and practice of law, will join the faculty of IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law in fall 2015.

A proponent of training law students in hard technical skills, Katz applies a polytechnic approach to teaching, meshing litigation knowledge with emerging software capabilities and other efficiency-enhancing technologies. Both his scholarship and his teaching integrate mathematics, science, engineering and technology to aid students in the practice of law.

“We are delighted that Dan Katz is joining our faculty and carrying on our school’s special relationship with technological advancements,” said IIT Chicago-Kent Dean Harold J. Krent.

“From our ties to Illinois Institute of Technology to our pioneering technology in the ’80s and ’90s, from our ongoing prominence in intellectual property law to our current innovations in knowledge management, IIT Chicago-Kent has long stood out for understanding the critical role of technology in the study and practice of law.”

A scholar of legal informatics and legal technology, Katz is an editor of the International Journal of Law and Information Technology (Oxford University Press) and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Law (Springer Scientific).

In 2013, Katz was named a Legal Rebel by the ABA Journal and received a Fastcase 50 award, recognizing him as one of “50 of the smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries and leaders in the law.” In 2014, he was named to the external affiliated faculty at CodeX-Stanford Center for Legal Informatics.

Katz earned his J.D. and his Ph.D. in political science and public policy from the University of Michigan and was an NSF-IGERT Fellow at the University of Michigan Center for the Study of Complex Systems.