Martin Ebers is the President of the Robotics & AI Law Society (RAILS), Germany, and a Professor of IT Law at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He is also a permanent fellow at the Faculty of Law at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. He has taught and presented at over 100 international conferences and is a member of several national and international research networks. He has published 24 books and over 120 articles in the fields of law and technology, esp. artificial intelligence, as well as commercial, private, European, comparative and international law.
In 2022, Dr Ebers was awarded a five-year grant from the Wallenberg Foundation (WASP-HS) to conduct research with his team at Örebro University in Sweden on “Private Rule-making and European Governance of AI and Robotics”. Since 2025, he has led the Research Cluster “The Rule of AI — AI, Regulation, and Society” involving six Swedish academic institutions, including Stockholm University, Uppsala University, Örebro University and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
His latest books include “Algorithms and Law” (Cambridge University Press, 2020), “Contracting and Contract Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” (Hart Publishing, 2022), the “Stichwortkommentar Legal Tech” (Nomos Publishing, 2023), “Privacy, Data Protection and Data-driven Technologies” (Routledge, 2024), “Rechtshandbuch ChatGPT” (Nomos Publishing, 2024) and “The Cambridge Handbook of Generative AI and the Law” (Cambridge University Press 2025). Since 2024, he has been Editor-in-Chief of the new open access journal “Cambridge Forum on AI: Law and Governance” at Cambridge University Press.
In addition to research and teaching, Dr Ebers has been active in the field of legal consultancy for many years. He is actively involved in the rapidly growing legal technology industry, as an advisor to tech companies and an organizer of the “Tech & Law Camps” offered by RAILS. According to Beck-Aktuell 31.12.2023, Dr. Ebers is among the “top 5 legal influencers” in Germany.