Stephan Breidenbach

Prof. Dr Stephan Breidenbach is co-founder and Chairman of the Rulemapping Group. As a lawyer, academic, mediator and entrepreneur, he has spent over 30 years exploring how digitalisation can make complex legal and social decision-making processes more accessible and comprehensible. Following professorships in civil law and mediation at the European University Viadrina and the University of Vienna, he founded the company KnowledgeTools, where he focuses on the digitalisation of legal procedures and administrative processes.

As early as 1993, he developed the basis for the Rulemapping method as a graphical representation of legal decision trees to illustrate complex thought processes to students. As founder and Chairman of the Rulemapping Group, he is now taking this work to the next level: together with Till Behnke and Ina Remmers, he is creating innovative solutions for citizen-centred and efficient administration, which is funded by SPRIN-D as a breakthrough innovation and simplifies access to justice.