Dr. Konstantin Branovitskiy

Team Leader


LegalTech 

Lab

Portrait Konstantin Branovitskiy, Teamleiter, Team C2, Foto: JTC | Markus Scholz

Vita

Appointments
Since 2024

Head, JTC LegalTech Lab, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

2019–2022

Professor of Civil Procedure Law, Ural State Law University

2019-2020

Visiting Lecturer, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

 

Education
2017-2019

Habilitation “Harmonization of Civil Procedure in the EU and the Post-Soviet Space”

2006-2009

PhD in Law “Information Technologies in German Civil Procedure: A Comparative Analysis”

2008-2009

Magister Legum-Programm (LL.M.), Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel (2009) — Thesis: Electronic Evidence in Civil Procedure

Grants & Fellowships
2021-2022

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation — Research Fellowship for experienced researchers (Project: “Cross-Border Digitalisation of Civil Procedure”)

2018-2020

Foundation for Basic Research (RF): Digitalisation of Civil Procedure Law and its Impact on Fundamental Principles

2012-2015

VolkswagenStiftung — Project funding: “International Trade Law in the Caucasus and Central Asia”

2012

German-Russian Jurists Prize for PhD-These “Information Technologies in German Civil Procedure: A Comparative Analysis”

2008-2011

VolkswagenStiftung — Project funding:  “Foreign Investment Law in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Russia”

2006-2007

DAAD-Fellowship for Young Scientists

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Konstantin Branovitskiy conducts research on the digital transformation of law, with a particular focus on LegalTech, Legal Design, and civil procedure. His research addresses the interaction between emerging technologies and constitutional guarantees, particularly the right to be heard, questions of digital inequality, and the evolution of international civil procedure. Since 2022, he has been a member of the Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für Internationales Verfahrensrecht e.V.

As Team Leader of the JTC LegalTech Lab at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Konstantin leads an innovation team that develops practical solutions for justice, administration, and academia in Saxony-Anhalt. Current projects include tools for family law, the digital transformation of enforcement procedures, and initiatives in data governance and standardization.

Selected Publications

Monographs

  • Rechtliches Gehör bei grenzüberschreitenden Gerichtsverfahren im digitalen Zeitalter, Nomos, 2023

Edited Volumes

  • Rechtsentwicklung in postsowjetischen Staaten – Demokratie und Rechtsstaatlichkeit als Ideal oder Attrappe? (with Prof. Meller-Hannich) Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg, Halle an der Saale, 2023

Articles

  • Digitaler Rechtsraum: Sachsen-Anhalts Chance im Strukturwandel, 2025, https://opendata.uni-halle.de//handle/1981185920/120869
  • Fundamental and Constitutional Civil Procedural Guarantees in Russia, ZVglRWiss 123 (2024), 164-200
  • Artificial intelligence and LegalTech: Risks of transforming the legal profession. Digital Law Journal 2024 (5), 28-41
  • Die Tendenz zur Deritualisierung im russischen Zivilprozess: Erscheinungsformen und Herkunft, DRRZ Band 8, 2023, Heft 1, 34-45
  • Versuche der Modellregulation im Bereich des Zivilprozesses im postsowjetischen Raum. Die Erfahrung der GUS-Länder, für die zukünftige eurasische Integration, Recht als Brücke zwischen Ost und West, Festschrift für Alexander Trunk zum 65. Geburtstag 2022, 79-89
  • Die Verfassungsänderungen zur Absetzung föderaler Richter im Lichte der richterlichen Unabhängigkeit, Jahrbuch für Ostrecht (JOR) 2021, 99-109
  • Digitalization and Covid-19: global trend of the Civil Procedure (with Neznamov A., Renz I., Yarkov V.), European and Asian Law Review 2021 (4), 16-22
  • Digitalization of the Civil Process in the Transboundary Aspect: Formulation of the Problem, Proceedings of the XVII International Research-to-Practice Conference dedicated to the memory of M.I. Kovalyov (ICK 2020), Vol.420, Atlantis Press, 2020: https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200321.126

 

Projects

Digitalisation of Enforcement Proceedings

One of LegalTech Lab's key projects is the development and testing of a fully digital enforcement procedure. The aim is to make the previous paper-based and often lengthy processes more efficient, transparent and user-friendly. In close cooperation with the Ministry of Justice, we are focusing on innovative technical solutions that not only significantly reduce administrative costs, but also strengthen legal certainty and traceability. In this way, we are making an important contribution to the digitalisation of the legal system and laying the foundation for a sustainable judiciary.