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independent legal consultant and an extraordinary Senior Lecturer, University of Stellenbosch School for Public Leadership
Dr Dirk Brand is an independent legal consultant and an extraordinary Senior Lecturer at the School of Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University. He has published various articles and contributions to books on AI and the law, constitutional law, data protection, public governance and international relations that appeared in publications in South Africa, Italy, USA, Germany and the Netherlands. He participated as a constitutional advisor in the negotiations for the drafting of the South African Constitution in the Constitutional Assembly in Cape Town. He continues to lecture and consult in the fields of AI and the law, constitutional law, data protection, public governance. He is part of the LegalAIzers team who won the First St.Gallen Grand Challenge in Switzerland on the application of the EU AI Act (July 2023).