Roland Vogl
Executive Director and Lecturer in Law
Biography
Dr. Vogl is a scholar and media entrepreneur who, after nearly fifteen years of professional legal experience, has developed a strong expertise in innovation, intellectual property, and legal informatics. Currently, he is a lecturer, scholar, and Executive Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology (LST) at Stanford Law School. He focuses his efforts on legal informatics work carried out in the Center for Legal Informatics (CodeX) and international technology law work through the Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (TTLF). More recently, he founded and leads the Stanford Intellectual Property Exchange (SIPX) and the Stanford Publish on Demand Initiative.
Dr. Vogl is also a Visiting Faculty at the University of Vienna, Austria where he teaches about United States intellectual property law. Previously, he founded Vator.tv, a next-generation business social media company, leveraging community-generated content to create data services and news. Also, he was a teaching fellow for the Stanford Law School’s international LLM degree program in Law, Science and Technology. He worked as an IP associate at Fenwick & West LLP, as a press associate at the European Parliament and as a law clerk at the European Commission's Directorate General for Audiovisual Media, Information and Communication as well as at a Federal District Court in Austria.
Dr. Vogl holds both a Dr.iur. (JSD) and a Mag.iur. (JD) from Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck, Austria as well as a JSM from Stanford Law School.