Senior Lecturer in Law

Middlesex University London

Associate Director and Lawyer; EDRi Mozilla Fellow
Refugee Law Lab, York University, Canada

 
‘Borders and Pandemics: AI and Migration Management in the Time of COVID-19′

Petra Molnar is a lawyer and researcher specializing in technology, migration, and human rights. She is currently working on a project looking at the impacts of migration control technologies on the lives of people on the move in Greece and the Mediterranean corridor, as well as the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the surveillance of marginalized groups. Petra also works on issues around immigration detention, health and human rights, gender-based violence, and the politics of refugee, immigration, and international law. Her work has appeared in numerous academic publications and the popular press, including the New York Times. Petra is also the co-author of “Bots at the Gate,” an internationally recognized report on the human rights impacts of automated decision-making in immigration and refugee systems.

University of Birmingham

Dr Wenlong is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, where he’s working on the research project ‘Digital Experimentation in the Public Sector’. Wenlong is a research affiliate at Edinburgh Centre for Data, Society (CDCS) and teaches Advertising Law at Edinburgh Law School.

Perry Keller is Reader in Media and Information Law at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, where he specialises in information law, including privacy rights, data protection, freedom of information and freedom of expression. Mr Keller holds degrees from the University of British Columbia and Osgoode Hall Law School, York University in Canada and from Harvard Law School, Harvard University, USA. He also has a long running scholarly interest in law in contemporary China, having both studied and worked in China.

Mr Keller’s current research work concerns FOI and other information access rights in relation to AI systems (EPSRC Trust, identity, privacy and security in the digital economy grants – ‘Trust in Human-Machine Partnerships’) and data protection issues in programmatic advertising (ICO Grants Programme 2020 – ‘After third party cookies – Consumer consent and data autonomy in the globalised Adtech industry’).

Senior Research Specialist; Associate Research Fellow

Dr Rachel Adams is a Senior Research Specialist at the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa, and an Associate Research Fellow of the Information Law and Policy Centre at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), University of London. Her research lies at the intersection of philosophy, gender, technology, law and race, and she has published widely in these fields.

Rachel was previously led the work of the South African Human Rights Commission on civil and political rights, including authoring various reports to the United Nations. She completed a post-doctorate at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. Dr Adams is the incoming Chair of the Independent Expert Panel of the South African Department of Science and Innovation’s Centre on Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR), and is leading various projects around AI, ethics and policy in South Africa, including the development of a policy brief series on AI, Data and Ethics which has been endorsed by the UN Global Pulse. She has further secured funding for her work around AI from the University of Cambridge’s Albadora grant, the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, and a grant of over $250,000 to support research in Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights and Ethics across the African region from Facebook.

Rachel is further a member of the Independent Advisory Group of the Surveillance Camera Commissioner for the UK Home Office, and an Editor of the South African Journal on Human Rights. She is the author of Transparency: New Trajectories in Law (Routledge, 2020), and the lead author of a forthcoming book with HSRC Press on Human Rights and the Fourth Industrial Revolution in South Africa (2021). Her work on gender and AI has been cited in, amongst others, Nature, The Guardian, the New York Times and by the United Nations.

Peter is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Reading specialising in Media Law and Criminal Law. Prior to this he was a practising barrister specialising in privacy, defamation and reputation management, having been Called to Bar by Lincoln’s Inn in 2007. Peter has also held a Senior Lectureship in Law at Aston University, where he taught Media Law and Criminal Law.

His primary research interests are: (i) citizen journalism’s impact on free speech, media freedom and regulation and the concepts of privacy and reputation; (ii) defamation and the protection of corporate reputation; (iii) media power and plurality, the role the media plays within society and its impact on democracy. His work in these areas has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of European Tort Law, Legal Studies, the University of Melbourne’s Media & Arts Law Review, the Journal of Business Law and Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, amongst others. It has been referred to by the Scottish Law Commission and has been used by IMPRESS (the Press Recognition Panel-approved regulator) to inform its work on press regulation. Peter writes for practitioner and media outlets, such as the New Law Journal, The Independent, The Conversation and Inforrm, and he is regularly invited to speak to the media, at conferences and to give guest lectures to academics, non-academics and policy makers. His research led to him joining the Information Law and Policy Centre in May 2018 and, in 2020, he was appointed as an Advisor to the University of East London’s newly formed Online Harms and Cyber Crime research unit.

Since August 2019 Peter has been Editor-in-Chief of Communications Law, one of the leading specialist journals devoted to media and technology law. He is also the author of the ‘In Brief’ section of the journal. Prior to taking over the Editorship of the journal he was a member of its Editorial Board. Additionally, Peter sits on the Editorial Board of the leading European Media Law journal, In Medias Res (Wolters Kluwer).

Peter is an Academic Associate Member of East Anglian Chambers, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is the incoming Convenor of the Society of Legal Scholars’ Media and Communications Law Subject Section.

Dr. Monika Zalnieriute is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Law at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and a Visiting Fellow at the UNSW Law Sydney. Monika’s research explores the interplay between law, technology, and politics, and focuses on automated decision-making, Internet policy, data privacy and discrimination law, and human rights in the digital age. Her work also addresses intersection between feminist theory, LGBTI rights, and Internet platforms.

She holds a PhD in Law from European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Before joining Macquarie, Monika led a research stream on ‘Technologies and Rule of Law’ at UNSW Law Sydney, and held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Melbourne, where she worked on the digital rights and discrimination of marginalized groups online. Monika believes that research only matters if it has a strong and tangible impact well beyond academia; and is actively engaged both within academic, civil society and policy-making circles. She is a founding Director of a researched-based advocacy organization ‘ZEPHIRO: Progressive Platform for Human Rights’ in Vilnius, Lithuania. Monika’s work has influenced policy at the National Transport Commission in Australia, Council of Europe, ICANN, Privacy International, and the WHO.

Monika has published widely in leading outlets, such as the Modern Law Review, Harvard International Law Journal, American Journal of International Law, Yale Journal of Law & Technology, Stanford Journal of International Law, and Harvard Business Law Review, among others.

Professor of International Law & Ethics

Dr Ozlem Ulgen is Reader in International Law and Ethics at Birmingham City University, UK. She specialises in moral and legal philosophy, weapons law, international humanitarian law, and public international law. She has published works on cosmopolitan ethics in warfare, Kantian ethics and human dignity in the age of artificial intelligence and robotics, and the law and ethics of autonomous weapons. She has a forthcoming publication with Routledge, The Law and Ethics of Autonomous Weapons: A Cosmopolitan Perspective. Ozlem is involved in various legal and ethical international standard-setting initiatives. She is Chair of the Accountability Expert Focus Group for IEEE Ethics Certification Program for Autonomous and Intelligent Systems (ECPAIS), developing accountability requirements for ethical certification of autonomous and intelligent systems in the public and private sectors. She is involved in drafting legal and ethical rules at the United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, and has produced reports defining lethal autonomous weapons systems, identifying human control elements in weapons systems, and reviewing regulatory models (Definition and Regulation of LAWS, Command Responsibility and LAWS). Ozlem is also an expert member of IEEE Standards Working Groups P7007 Ontological Standard for Ethically Driven Robotics and Automation Systems, and P7000 Model Process for Addressing Ethical Concerns During System Design. She was involved in drafting the chapter on Classical Ethics and A/IS for IEEE’s Ethically Aligned Design, a global treatise of high-level ethical principles, key issues, and practical recommendations intended to inform the public, engineers, policy makers, and manufacturers of autonomous and intelligent systems. She is the principal Investigator for EPSRC funded project – “God, the Oracle, and the Nightclub Bouncer: Can human dignity be modelled in an AI-based decision support system for post-Covid health certification?

Thomas Ploug is professor of data ethics at Aalborg University in Copenhagen. His research spans various fields within applied ethics, including data, AI and technology ethics, medical ethics and bioethics, and research ethics. He is a former member of the Danish Council of Ethics and is currently member of the SIRI-Commission on AI (Denmark).

Dr Joe Tomlinson is Senior Lecturer in Public Law at the University of York. Prior to joining York in 2019, Joe held lectureships in Public Law at King’s College London and the University of Sheffield. He has also held visiting posts at Melbourne Law School and Osgoode Hall Law School. He completed his LL.B and Ph.D. at the University of Manchester. Joe is also Research Director of the Public Law Project—a national legal charity, based in London, which seeks to improve access to public law for the poor and disadvantaged. In 2019, Joe was an ESRC Parliamentary Academic Fellow, supporting the Justice Committee’s inquiry into courts and tribunals reform. He also sits on the Administrative Justice Council’s Academic Panel and the Digital Freedom Fund’s Panel of Experts.

Jack Maxwell is Research Fellow in Public Law and Technology at the Public Law Project, a national legal charity based in London. His work focuses on how technology is changing the way government makes decisions and the channels by which people can challenge those decisions, particularly for people who are disadvantaged or marginalised. Jack has a Bachelor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford, and degrees in law and philosophy from the University of Melbourne in Australia. Before coming to the UK, Jack worked as a government lawyer in Australia, specialising in administrative and constitutional law.

Professor of Information & Communications Law; Director

Centre of Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London

After graduating with degrees from Durham University and Cambridge University he started his career as a commercial lawyer; later becoming a charity law specialist advising leading charities and social enterprises.

Tom is passionate about volunteering, and is currently a non-executive director for the National Union of Students and an Advisory Board member for the Young Foundation’s Institute for Community Studies.

Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Fellow in Law

Lecturer in Law; PhD Candidate in Law

She has submitted written and oral expert evidence to several parliamentary committees being cited in support of further reforms in the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on Electoral Campaigning Transparency final report Defending our Democracy in the Digital Age and the recent House of Lords Democracy and Digital Technologies Committee final report Digital Technology and the Resurrection of Trust.

Professor of Privacy & Information Law

Jane is a member of RESAW (Research Infrastructure for the Study of the Archived Web), the Academic Steering & Advocacy Committee of the Open Library of Humanities, the Advisory Board of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, the Advisory Board of the Living with Machines project, the Editorial Board of the History of Parliament, and the UK UNESCO Memory of the World Committee. She is a Fellow and Councillor of the Royal Historical Society and chairs its Digital Committee.

Jane‘s research interests include digital history, born-digital archives (particularly the archived web), the use of social media by cultural heritage institutions, and open access publishing. She has published most recently on Non-Print Legal Deposit and web archives, born-digital archives and the problem of search, and the archiving and analysis of national web domains.