Dr. Réka MARKOVICH

Dr. Réka Markovich is the founder and leader of the Computational Law and Machine Ethics – CLAIM – group at the Department of Computer Science, a research group working on the interdisciplinary enhancement of responsible AI investigating different computational models of and approaches to legal and ethical concepts and structures to be deployed in Artificial Intelligence.

Dr. Markovich’s researches computational legal theory and studies its application in AI. Her focus areas are legal knowledge representation, normative multi-agent systems, deontic logic, machine ethics, and XAI.

Dr. Markovich has led and participated in research projects from highly theoretical and foundational ones, aiming to develop new formal models for fundamental conceptual frameworks, to more applied ones, seeking, for instance, NLP solutions for extracting structural and semantic information from legislative texts. Her main research interests have led her to projects revolving around the computational models of fundamental legal concepts and structures, and their application in AI. She, thus, has worked extensively on computational rights theory, due to which she was the lead researcher of the Deontic Logic for Epistemic Rights (DELIGHT) FNR OPEN grant.

Currently, she is highly interested in the computational reconstruction of judicial discretion; she is the PI of the DISCREASON – Formal Analysis of Discretionary Reasoning – Deontic Logic and Formal Argumentation for Modeling Discretionary Decision Making in Legal Cases project with a Marie Speyer Excellence grant. She also co-leads the Ownership, Authorship and Accountability Systems in Virtual Spaces  (OAASIS) project within an IAS AUDACITY grant with Dr. Katrin Becker, and she is the PI of the Reasoning and Explaining Causality and Liability through Legal AI (RECALL) project funded by FNR as a CORE.

• 2025 Best Paper Award at the 20th International Conference on AI and Law (ICAIL)
• 2024 Marie Speyer Excellence grant 
• 2021 TAILOR (Foundations of Trustworthy AI – Integrating Reasoning, Learning and Optimization) Connectivity Fund’s grant 
• 2017 New National Excellence Program of Hungary’s Fellowship 2016 New National Excellence Program of Hungary’s Fellowship 

Dr. Markovich’s PhD is in Logic and Theory of Science; she holds two master’s degrees (in Logic and in Communications), and a Juris Doctorate (JD).

Prior to academia, she led a national advocacy organisation for 7 years, then she held an assistant professorship at the Department of Logic at Eötvös Loránd University and a junior assistant professorship at the Department of Business Law at the Budapest University of Technology.

After extensive visiting researcher positions at the University of Edinburgh and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), she joined the University of Luxembourg in 2018.