Michael Green, an Australian born and bred in Sydney, is the founder and director of JADE. JADE, is an Australian non-profit responsible for the inception of first-of-its-breed legal citator for common Australian law.  An initiative which spans over 8 years, JADE hosts over 1.5 million citations, receives almost 4,000 sessions a day and services over 24,000 users in Australia alone. JADE reflects Michael’s enthusiasm and life-goal to create a crowd-sourced environment to promote open access to law.

Michael received his bachelor of science (with a double major in neuroanatomy and the history and philosophy of science) from the University of New South Wales, and his law degree from the same university. He was the associate (law clerk) to the Hon. Justice Ian Sheppard, AO, of the Federal Court of Australia, and was the director of the secretariat of the Copyright Law Review Committee. He was admitted as a legal practitioner in 1991.

Michael was called to the bar in 1998, specialising in intellectual property, commercial and corporate law. He is a member of the IEEE, the ACM, the AAAI, and the treasurer of the Copyright Society of Australia and a member of the executive of the UNCITRAL Co-ordinating Committee in Australia (UNCCA). In 2014, Michael was nominated, and won the Fastcase Top 50 award, which recognises the world’s top 50 most courageous innovators in legal technology. Michael is the only Australian recipient in an alumni of winners from SCOTUS, Georgetown University, University of Berkeley and justices from the US Supreme Court.

When not campaigning on open access to law and living up to his reputation as the “calmest barrister in the Sydney circuit” (a barrister is the English/Australian version of the US trial lawyer), Michael enjoys sailing, swimming, funk music, modern art, and exploring the umami of  wine and cheese.