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Dr. Holli Sargeant is a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, University of Cambridge, specializing in the intersection of law and artificial intelligence. She is concurrently completing her PhD in AI & Law at the University of Cambridge as a General Sir John Monash Scholar, with affiliations at Peterhouse College. Her research bridges legal scholarship with practical AI implementation, focusing on critical issues of algorithmic governance in legally protected contexts.
Her educational journey includes doctoral research at the University of Cambridge examining economic incentives, normative implications, and comparative legal responses under UK and US law. During her PhD studies, she spent time as a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School and was an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Prior to her doctoral work, she practiced as an Australian solicitor in digital law, technology transactions, and human rights at Herbert Smith Freehills and the Australian Human Rights Commission, providing her with valuable practical legal experience.
Dr. Sargeant's research program critically addresses the challenges of responsible AI governance, with particular focus on algorithmic discrimination in consumer markets and the justice system. She investigates the role of AI in computational legal research and access to justice, including assessing biases in legal datasets and evaluating AI-assisted judicial decision-making. Her work develops novel frameworks for translating legal requirements into technical implementations, ensuring that AI systems comply with anti-discrimination principles while maintaining technical effectiveness. She employs both theoretical analysis and empirical evaluation to address how predictive uncertainty in machine learning systems can lead to unlawful discrimination.
Her recent publications demonstrate a cohesive research trajectory examining how AI systems interact with legal protections, particularly in high-stakes decision-making contexts. She has developed decision-theoretic frameworks to formalize anti-discrimination law within automated systems and has conducted empirical studies on hate crime classification in police reports. Her work consistently bridges legal theory with practical AI implementation challenges, contributing significantly to the emerging interdisciplinary field at the intersection of law and computer science.
- General Sir John Monash Scholar
As a researcher at the forefront of AI-law integration, Dr. Sargeant collaborates with international organizations and not-for-profits on using technology to improve access to justice and uphold human rights. Her dual perspective as both a legal practitioner and AI researcher gives her unique insights into the practical implementation challenges of regulatory frameworks for algorithmic systems. She actively participates in the FAccT (Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency) conference community, with multiple papers accepted to FAccT2025.
