legal reasoning, digital humanities, computational modelling, private law (English, Rabbinic, Roman), teaching methodology

Contact and feedback hours

Outside teaching weeks, please contact by email for an appointment.

Modules

LL1002 The Law of Contract (convenor, lectures and seminars)

LL3003 Law Dissertation

LL2002 Law of Torts (seminars)

LL1005 English Legal System (not in 25/26)

PhD supervision

Marton would be excited to discuss PhD project proposals related to legal reasoning, legal history, legal education, Contract and Tort. He has experience working with historical, linguistic, theoretical and computational methods.

Marton Ribary is a Lecturer in Law at Royal Holloway, University of London where his research focuses on legal reasoning. He is interested in modelling the rhetorical strategies of constructing a persuasive argument which involves (1) capturing its legal, historical, and commonsense context, and (2) the modelling of legal knowledge, formal rules, and counterfactual arguments. Marton works with Natural Language Processing (NLP) and algorithmic rule modelling methods applied to historical (Roman and Rabbinic) as well as modern (English) texts in private law.

He has a background in philosophy (MA, Budapest), ancient legal history (MPhil, Oxford; PhD, Manchester), and library and information studies (MA,UCL). Before joining RHUL in April 2022, Marton was a teaching fellow in Rabbinic law and later head librarian at Leo Baeck College London (2013-2018), a lecturer in Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester (2019), and a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Surrey School of Law (2019-2022). During his Leverhulme fellowship at Surrey, he developed an interest and some skills in coding, and built a database prototype of Emperor Justinian's Digest of Roman law (533 CE) which was the starting point of an award-winning open research case study (2021). He is an associate editor of the Journal of Open Humanities Data, and a peer-reviewer of a number of journals related to religious studies and digital humanities.

Marton's ongoing collaborative research projects are related to building a digital platform for text-critical approaches to Roman law (Index 2.0), developing a hybrid AI system for generating automated legal advice for small businesses in distress (Insolvency Bot), playful visualisation techniques for teaching problem solving in the law of contract, modelling commonsense reasoning in tort in Roman and Rabbinic law, and the impact of data papers on the traction of research produced by open methods.

• Library and Information Studies (MA, UCL)
• Rabbinic and Roman Law (PhD, Manchester)
• Judaism and Christianity in the Graeco-Roman World (MPhil, Oxford)
• Philosophy with Classics and Hebrew (MA, ELTE Budapest)