Professor Lilian Edwards

Lilian Edwards is a leading academic in the field of Internet law. She has taught information technology law, e-commerce law, privacy law, and Internet law at undergraduate and postgraduate levels since 1996 and has been involved with law and artificial intelligence (AI) since 1985. She is now Emerita Professor at Newcastle and Honorary Professor at CREATe, University of Glasgow, which she helped co-found. She is the editor and major author of 'Law, Policy and the Internet,' one of the leading textbooks in the field of Internet law. She won the Future of Privacy Forum award in 2019 for best paper ('Slave to the Algorithm' with Michael Veale) and the award for best non-technical paper at FAccT in 2020, on automated hiring. In 2004, she won the Barbara Wellberry Memorial Prize for work on online privacy, where she invented the notion of data trusts, a concept which ten years later has been proposed in EU legislation. She is a former fellow of the Alan Turing Institute on Law and AI, and the Institute for the Future of Work. Edwards has consulted for inter alia the EU Commission, the OECD, and WIPO.