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Hannes Westermann

Assistant Professor in Law & AI

Maastricht University
Maastricht Law and Tech Lab

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Awards & Honors

Selected awards, competitive grants, and academic distinctions.

Am AI Right? — NWO-SGW Open Competition
#2024 #Research funding #NWO

Co-recipient of €839,146 in funding for the 2024–2029 research project; principal investigator: Gijs van Dijck.

Best paper awards
#Research award #JURIX

Best Paper, JURIX 2023; Best Paper, JURIX 2020; Best Student Paper, JURIX 2019.

Comenius Senior Fellowship and Maastricht University Starter Grant
#2025 #Research funding #Education

Co-recipient of a €99,840 Comenius Senior Fellowship; awarded a €170,470 Faculty of Law Starter Grant.

JusticeBot grant and COLIEE win
#2020 #2021 #Access to justice

JusticeBot research grant of CAD 200,000 (2021); winner of Task 1 at COLIEE 2020.

Open science and research infrastructure grants
#2026 #Research funding #Open science

Co-recipient of Open Science NL (€249,793), PDI-SSH Lawnotation (€225,634), NWO TDCC LegalBlocks, and OpenUP (€5,000) awards.

Thesis distinctions
#Academic distinction #Thesis

Université de Montréal Best Thesis Award (2023–2024) and exceptional mention (2023); Center for European Studies Best Thesis Award (2018).

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