Professor Orla Lynskey

Bio:

Orla is Chair of Law and Technology at UCL Laws and a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges. She was previously Associate Professor at LSE Law (2012-2024). Her research examines the ways in which digital technology and regulation shape fundamental rights and public values and reconfigure public-private relations. Orla is particularly interested in the impact and role of non-constitutional actors, including regulators and civil-society, in securing constitutional rights and values through digital regulation. She is currently also investigating whether counter-majoritarian perspectives can, and should, inform State decision-making about personal data usage.

Representative publications: 

Relevant recent work includes:

- Complete and Effective Data Protection, a Current Legal Problems article appraising ostensible trade-offs between substantive protection and regulatory effectiveness in data protection

- Work as co-PI on the CIVICA funded ‘Preserving public values in the automated state’ (with some reflections published in an SLSA guest blog symposium).