Research

Adrian König’s research focuses on civil procedure, debt enforcement and bankruptcy law. His work also encompasses business and financial market law, general contract law, machine learning and finance.

He is a PhD candidate at the University of Bern’s Faculty of Law, based at the Institute for Private International Law and Civil Procedure (CIVPRO). His dissertation examines to what extent data analysis can improve a claimant’s litigation risk analysis before filing suit. His doctoral research is supervised by Prof. Dr. Florian Eichel and co-supervised by Prof. Dr. Christian Matt of the university’s Institute of Information Systems.

König holds a Master of Science in Business Administration with a special qualification in Corporate Finance (insigni cum laude) and a Master of Law (magna cum laude). He also holds a Certificate of Advanced Studies in International Law and Economics. He began publishing in established journals while still a student.

Forthcoming

Pricing Swiss Civil Litigation · A Quantitative Comparison of Statutory Base Tariffs Adrian König · Wjera Yell Leutenegger
2026
Aktuelle Empirie zu den Kosten im Zivilprozess Adrian König · Andjelika Mirkovic · Forthcoming in ZZZ, late 2026
2026
LEGEX · An Eight-Jurisdiction Benchmark for Legal Review-Table Extraction Adrian König · Daniel Tscheraghsepehr · Philip Pawlowsky · Arne Holicki · Maximilian Louis Hauser · Thiago Xavier · Raphael Zemp · Aram Antoine Hess · Luc Wenger · Li-Cheng Chen · Benjamin Berkowitsch · Vakhtang Marjanidze · Shruti Jhanwar · Nerea Garcia Moran · Enzo Nuener · Jelle Begeyn · Andjelija Mitrakovic · Antoine Vermeulen · Sapana Danai · Caleb Catalan · Roman Wixinger · Accepted at the ICML 2026 Workshop on AI for Law (AI4Law), Seoul (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, Vol. 306)

Publications

2026
Wie juristisch präzise arbeiten KI-Tools? Full text only at the publisher Adrian König · Maximilian Hauser · Daniel Tscheraghsepehr · Philip Pawlowsky · Arne Holicki · Roman Wixinger · Anwaltsrevue 9/2026, 404-409
2025
Gen-Z drängt ins Recht · Erste empirische Insights Adrian König · Roman Wixinger · LAWSTYLE Nr. 19, 2025, 8-11
2024
Grenzen der ehelichen Verfügungsbeschränkung · BGer 5A_503/2023 vom 15. Juli 2024 Full text only at the publisher Adrian König · Ius focus 10/2024, Nr. 243
2023
Décharge und Corporate Governance Full text only at the publisher Adrian König · GesKR 4/2023, 496-504
2023
Prozessieren gegen Lloyd’s Syndikate · BGer 4A_323/2022 vom 5. Dezember 2022 Full text only at the publisher Laura Manz · Adrian König · Ius focus 3/2023, Nr. 67