Professor Ana Beduschi

Ana Beduschi is a Full Professor of Law with a Personal Chair at the University of Exeter. She is currently the Co-Director of Research and Impact (Funding) at the University of Exeter Law School. She is also currently serving as the Strategic Lead on Fair and Inclusive Society at the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI).

Her research and teaching focus on international human rights law, technology (including big data and artificial intelligence), data protection and international migration and refugee law. Her recent publications examine the regulatory approaches to digital technologies and human rights, synthetic data and privacy, extended reality and its impact on data protection and privacy, the impact of Covid-19 health status certificates on human rights, the implications of artificial intelligence for international migration management, the opportunities and challenges presented by digital identity, and the implications of big data and artificial intelligence for humanitarian action.

Professor Beduschi holds a PhD in Law (2011) from the University of Montpellier 1, France. She also received an LLB degree in Law (in 2003), an LLM degree in International and European Law (Maîtrise in 2004), and an LLM degree in European Human Rights Law (Master 2 in 2005) from the University of Montpellier 1, France. She also holds an LLB degree in Law from the UNESP (University of the State of São Paulo, Brazil) obtained in 2000. She was admitted to the Bar as an Attorney-at-Law in São Paulo, Brazil, in 2001.

She has held Visiting Research Fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (2017) and the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (University of Geneva) (2019 and 2021-2022).

Her previous academic positions at the University of Exeter Law School include those of Lecturer (2012-2016), Senior Lecturer (2016-2019), and Associate Professor (2019-2022).

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Research supervision:

Current PhD students:

• Mehmet Metin Uzun, 'Governing Artificial Intelligence: Regulatory Public Policy Framework' (with Prof Oliver James, University of Exeter - Politics Department)
• Sophia Simelitidou, 'Privacy vs Protection: The right to private and family life in the EU Immigration and Asylum System and the lived experiences of asylum seekers in Greece' (with Prof Nick Gill, University of Exeter - Geography Department)
• Georgia Hill, 'How should the law distinguish between personal and non-personal data for the purposes of accessing connected and automated vehicle data?' (with Dr Matthew Channon, University of Exeter - Law School)

Alumni:

• Laura Scheinert Idodo, 'Supporting judges in asylum adjudication – the role of judicial training' (with Prof Nick Gill - University of Exeter, Geography Department and Dr Emma Tonkin - University of Bristol, Engineering Department)
• Joshua Alexander Redmond, 'AI and Environment' (with Dr Ernesto Schwartz Marin - University of Exeter, Sociology Department and Dr Hugo Barbosa - University of Exeter, Computer Science Department)