Ayça is a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh. She conducts interdisciplinary research at the intersection of law and human-computer interaction and focuses on fairness and child-centred AI in education.

Burkhard is Professor of Computational Legal Theory, with a particular interest in the use of technology in the justice system, legal responses to technological developments, and the changing vision of the just society under the rule of law.

Claire's current research focuses on building AI data-driven tools able to effectively and ethically improve legal decision making in the context of refugee law. She is exploring the links between machine learning and other disciplines such as law and human rights processes, cognitive sciences, human-AI cooperation and ethics.

Claudia’s research is at the intersection of neurotechnology and law. They aim to provide a comprehensive framework to counteract neurohacking and safeguard brain data.

Dr Emily Postan is a Chancellor's Fellow in Bioethics in Edinburgh Law School. Her research focuses on the ethical implications of the ways that encounters with health data and health technologies affect our identities and relationships to others. 

Dr Gavin Sullivan is a Reader in International Human Rights Law at Edinburgh Law School and Principal Investigator on the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project, Infra-Legalities: Global Security Infrastructures, Artificial Intelligence and International Law.

Dr John Zerilli joined the Centre in May 2023. He is the Chancellor’s Fellow (Assistant Professor) in AI, Data, and the Rule of Law at the University of Edinburgh, a Research Associate in the Oxford Institute for Ethics and AI at the University of Oxford, and an Associate Fellow in the Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge.

Mike is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the project “Democracy, Rights and the Rule of Law in the Data-driven Society” where he applies insights from republican political theory to issues in AI involvement in governmental decision procedures. Mike recently received a PhD with distinction for his thesis “The Kantian Republic” at the University of Groningen. 

Dr Morshed Mannan’s work explores the governance of digital labour and social media platforms, data infrastructures, and distributed ledger technologies, with a particular interest in cooperative and commons-based approaches.

Professor Nehal Bhuta FRSE holds the Chair of Public International Law at University of Edinburgh and is Co-Director of the Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law.

Sasha’s research explores the intersection between healthcare, ethics, identity politics, and technology, specifically in identifying and analysing the role that machine learning plays in epistemically just or unjust healthcare practices.