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Karen Yeung joined Birmingham Law School and the University of Birmingham’s School of Computer Science as Interdisciplinary Professorial Fellow in Law, Ethics and Informatics in January 2018. Her research has been at the forefront of understanding the challenges associated with the regulation and governance of emerging technologies.
Karen Yeung’s recent books include Algorithmic Regulation (co-edited with Martin Lodge) Oxford University Press (2019) and The Oxford Handbook of Law, Regulation and Technology (co-edited with Roger Brownsword and Eloise Scotford) in 2017 and she is currently completing the manuscript on a second edition of An Introduction to Law and Regulation (with Sofia Ranchordas) for publication in 2024.
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Karen’s recent and on-going work focuses on the legal, ethical, social and democratic implications of a suite of technologies associated with automation and the ‘computational turn’, including big data analytics, artificial intelligence (including various forms of machine learning), distributed ledger technologies (including blockchain) and robotics.
Apr 9, 2019 · In her research, Karen Yeung has also highlighted the power imbalance between those who develop and employ AI technologies, and those who interact with and are subject to them. Her research finds that if society wants to take human rights seriously, we must ensure that with advanced digital technologies and systems, comes responsibility for those who develop and implement them.
Karen Yeung is a leading scholar in the governance of emerging technologies. She is recognised worldwide for her work in the regulation and governance of AI, urging scholars from computer science, engineering, law, the humanities and the social sciences to engage in the interdisciplinary work needed to address the novel social challenges which these increasingly powerful technologies generate.
Mar 6, 2024 · Professor Karen Yeung. Interdisciplinary Professorial Fellow in Law, Ethics and Informatics. Academic profile of Professor Karen Yeung, Interdisciplinary Professorial Fellow in Law, Ethics and Informatics at Birmingham Law School and the School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham. Phone: +44 (0) 121 414 6298. Email: k.yeung@bham.ac.uk.
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Karen Yeung is the University of Birmingham’s first Interdisciplinary Chair, taking up the post of Interdisciplinary Professorial Fellow in Law, Ethics and Informatics at the University of Birmingham in the School of Law and the School of Computer Science in January 2018. She has been a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Melbourne Law School since 2016. Karen is currently a member of the ...
