Nine Riis

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Nine is a PhD fellow at the Centre for Private Governance (CEPRI) at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. From October - December 2023 Nine was a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law Hamburg. From 22 April - 22 June 2024, Nine was a Recognised Student at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. 

In 2024, Nine received an EliteResearch Travel Stipend of DKK 200,000 from the Danish Ministry of Research and Education. The Travel Stipend is awarded to excellent Danish PhD-students across disciplines and is aimed at a research stay at a strong academic institution abroad.

Nine’s PhD project has the preliminary title “Conformity rules in B2B data contracts”. The project takes as its outset the fact that the volume of data in the world has increased rapidly during the last decade. The increase opens up new possibilities for data-driven technologies; such technologies are able to analyse data faster and better than humans. Data analysis can optimise products and business models with the consequence that data has become a valuable asset for many companies. Yet, not all companies have access to the data they desire, which has led more and more companies to enter into data contract to obtain such access. Despite data contracts’ significance for economic life almost no European legal research on the conformity rules in data contracts exist. The issue is important as data exhibits a number of particular characteristics that differs from the objects contract law usually deals with. To fill this research gap, the project conducts a doctrinal analysis of the conformity rules in B2B data contracts in Denmark, Germany, and England, respectively, and examines the similarities and differences in the rules across the three jurisdictions.

Nine’s main fields of interest are general contract law, law of obligations and IT contract law, in particular comparative perspectives. Nine has previously worked as an assistant attorney at Plesner Advokatpartnerselskab in Copenhagen and has extensive experience with drafting and negotiating IT contracts as well as managing IT-disputes. 

Nine has taught Law of Obligations (BA-course) and IT Contract Law (MA-course) at the Faculty of Law.

Primary fields of research

• Contract law 
• Law of obligations 
• Tort law 
• Data law 
• IT law