NKF partner Juerg Bloch elected to the advisory board of the newly established Center for Legal Data Science (CLDS) at the University of Zurich

At the Center for Legal Data Science’s (CLDS) launch event on Monday, 7 November 2022, NKF Investigations & White Collar Crime partner Juerg Bloch was elected to the scientific advisory board of the newly established CLDS.

The CLDS is an interdisciplinary research hub at the Law Faculty of the University of Zurich. Both researchers and students at the Faculty of Law will benefit from the center’s programs and services. The purpose of the CLDS is the application, critical reflection and promotion of data science methods in national and international legal contexts. Research areas of the CLDS include empirical legal research as well as computer-assisted methods of law-making and law application.