Professor Dr. Margarita Amaxopoulou

Biography

Margarita Amaxopoulou is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford. Her background is in socio-legal regulation studies, with a focus on the ethical, legal, and societal aspects of new emerging technologies, particularly Artificial Intelligence (AI). She was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship to pursue a 3-year independent research project on the emerging credibility contests in professional communities, such as legal and computer science experts, in the context of AI regulation and its implications on policy-making processes. Prior to her current role, she worked as a researcher on the Cloud Legal Project at Queen Mary University of London, where she studied the legal regulatory issues associated with generative AI technologies. Margarita obtained her PhD from the Dickson Poon School of Law at King’s College London, where her thesis examined AI regulation efforts and institutional changes occurring within the UK and EU, supported by the Anthony Guest PhD Scholarship. She also held a Research Associate position at the University of Surrey and has taught various law subjects across notable universities. Her education includes an LLM in Transnational Law from King’s College London, supported by the Yeoh Tiong Lay Scholarship, and an LLB from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, where she graduated as Valedictorian.

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