I work at the intersection of legal AI, complex systems, law, institutions and public policy.
After three decades designing complex information systems — including more than fifteen years in global container shipping — my work increasingly focuses on artificial intelligence, legal systems, international institutions and the architecture of trustworthy legal knowledge.
“I should rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau · Émile, or On Education
FounderLegisAlta
Legal AI for professional practice
Solution ArchitectCMA CGM / APL
Global shipping & regulated systems
Legal studiesParis 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Law, institutions & legal thought
Graduate studiesHarvard Extension School
Master's in International Relations — in progress
Technology30+ years
Software & enterprise architectureWriting
ESSAYS, POLICY NOTES AND ANALYSIS ON LEGAL AI, LAW AND GLOBAL AFFAIRS
From structured data to structured law
Why legal AI needs architecture for authority, propositions, relationships and provenance — not retrieval alone.
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AI is an institutional problem
The central question is not only what models can do, but who gains capacity, leverage and decision-making power.
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Trade infrastructure and strategic power
Maritime information systems increasingly sit at the intersection of commerce, sovereignty and national security.
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A FEW GUIDING PROPOSITIONS01
Legal AI is an institutional problem.
Its significance lies not only in model capability but in how it redistributes professional capacity, authority and leverage.
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Legal knowledge must remain contestable.
AI systems should preserve sources, authority, provenance and the possibility of challenging a machine-assisted conclusion.
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Law is becoming computational without becoming mathematics.
Legal AI therefore needs representations capable of preserving ambiguity, hierarchy, interpretation and argument.
Current Work
PROJECTS AND RESEARCH AT THE INTERSECTION OF LAW, TECHNOLOGY AND INSTITUTIONSLegisAlta
Legal intelligence for professional practice.
AI-assisted legal research, document analysis, drafting, citations and structured legal knowledge for lawyers.
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Architecture before automation.
Research on authority, legal propositions, provenance, retrieval, reasoning and professional accountability.
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Technology inside political systems.
Writing on AI governance, international affairs, trade, sovereignty, regulation and institutional design.
Learn more →Comparative Library
BOOKS, ARTS AND HUMAN QUESTIONS1
Books & thinkers
Philosophy, literature, history and the human sciences: works that offer different ways of thinking about the world.
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Dialogues across the arts
Cinema, music, painting, theatre and architecture illuminate the themes of books through other forms of creation.
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Human questions
Power, freedom, identity and collective life: explore fundamental questions that run through works and cultures.
“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche · Thus Spoke ZarathustraWriting, research & collaboration
I publish on Legal AI, institutions, public policy, international affairs and the governance of complex systems.
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