Nine Riis

Nine Riis

PhD fellow

Nine is a PhD fellow at the Centre for Private Governance (CEPRI) at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. She was a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law Hamburg in the period October - December 2023. 

Nine’s PhD project has the preliminary title “Reconstruction of the conformity assessment in B2B data contracts”. The project investigates the emerging concept of B2B data contracts through a comparative analysis of German, English and Danish law. The project utilizes interdisciplinary methods in the form of insights from data science to bridge legal research with the technological reality.

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 teaches 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

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