Dr. Elif Biber is a legal scholar in European public law and digitalisation at the University of Luxembourg Faculty of Law and a former academic visitor at the Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI. She holds a PhD degree (cum laude, highest distinction) from Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, with her dissertation, A Rights-Based Inter-Legal Approach to the Fundamental and Human Rights Challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence Systems, supervised by Prof. Gianluigi Palombella. She is the author of A Rights-Based Inter-Legal Approach to Artificial Intelligence, published with Hart Publishing (Oxford) and co-editor of the the volume Artificial Intelligence in European Law: A Deep View published by Nomos in the Luxembourg Legal Studies Series.
Prior to joining the University of Luxembourg, she participated in several programs to develop her research at the European University Institute in Florence and Harvard Law School. In her academic career, she is recognised as one of the prominent early scholars all around the globe (by the International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism) and is the best-ranked candidate in the competitive selection for admission to the PhD programme in 2018 (83/100) (winner of a three-year research scholarship funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research). She obtained her LLB from Istanbul University Law School with “high honour” and received her LLM degree with distinction from Koc University with her LLM thesis, Concretisation of Constitutional Norms Referring to the Protection of Private Life in the Individual Application Case-Law.
Her work has appeared with Oxford University Press, Hart Publishing, Nomos, Springer, Il Mulino, the International Review of Law, Computers and Technology, the Italian Law Journal, the Journal of AI Law and Regulation, I·CONnect, Verfassungsblog, EU Law Live, The Digital Constitutionalist and MediaLaws. Her research has been presented at leading academic and policy institutions across Europe, including the University of Oxford, the European University Institute, King’s College London, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, CPDP Brussels, ICON•S, the European Commission, and the Benelux Interparliamentary Assembly.
In addition to her lectures on AI Law and Fundamental Rights at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and the University of Luxembourg, she has taught mandatory courses in Comparative Administrative Law and EU and International Institutions at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg. She has also developed two courses for the Doctoral School, Introduction to European Public Law and Digitalisation and The Law of Online Platforms. Her teaching experience spans both emerging areas of law, particularly artificial intelligence, digitalisation, and fundamental rights, and core legal disciplines.
Since February 2023, she is the Head of Digital Rights of the Digital Constitutionalist in Florence (EUI).
