Maren Woebbeking

Maren is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Business Law at the Faculty of Law at Ruhr University Bochum (Germany), and has been a Fellow at the Information Society Project since 2019. She studied law and obtained her doctorate from the University of Goettingen, Germany. She was a Resident Fellow at the ISP in 2019–2020 and a Visiting Researcher at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School in 2020. During her legal traineeship, she worked at the German Federal Ministry of Justice and served as a judicial clerk at the German Federal Constitutional Court.

Her current research focuses on AI regulation, in particular challenges concerning the legitimacy of regulation through technical standards and the explainability of AI systems. In addition, she works on data as an economic asset and the design of fair data markets, as well as on intellectual property law, with an emphasis on open source and AI‑related intellectual property issues.