Adaobi is a doctoral researcher examining how African governance frameworks and ethical traditions can shape equitable, responsible and community-aligned approaches to genomics, biobanking and health data use.

Ismini Nikoleta Mathioudaki is a postdoctoral researcher on the Infralegalities project at the University of Edinburgh.

Nadia Jude is a postdoctoral researcher within the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project, Infra-Legalities: Global Security Infrastructures, AI and International Law.

Calliope investigates the ethical implications of using generative AI chatbots in mental health contexts, focusing on how such technologies challenge traditional notions of care, autonomy, and emotional integrity in therapeutic relationships.

Claudia González-Márquez is a Teaching and Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence, Data, and the Rule of Law. Claudia is Programme Staff on the interdisciplinary MSc in Data and Artificial Intelligence Ethics, and serves as course organiser for ‘Data and Artificial Intelligence Ethics, Law and Governance’.

Ayça is a multidisciplinary researcher and a lawyer working with and for children. She currently works as a post-doc researcher on the Grasping Data Project at the University of Edinburgh, where she also has a researcher co-lead role focusing on data protection and data ethics.

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.

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.

May 2023 - April 2025

Prior to his appointment as Senior Lecturer in Digital Law at King’s College London and Program Director of King’s online LLM in Digital Law, Dr John Zerilli was Chancellor’s Fellow (Assistant Professor) in AI, Data, and the Rule of Law at the University of Edinburgh.

Mike was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the project “Democracy, Rights and the Rule of Law in the Data-driven Society” where he applied insights from republican political theory to issues in AI involvement in governmental decision procedures.

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.