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Ignacio Cofone is a Professor of Law and Regulation of AI at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Law and a Fellow of Reuben College. He is affiliated with the Institute for Ethics in AI, Yale Law School's Information Society Project, and the Quebec AI Institute. Previously, he held the Canada Research Chair in AI Law and Data Governance at McGill University. His research focuses on legal adaptation to AI and data-driven technologies, particularly privacy frameworks, immaterial harms, and human-centered regulatory design.
Education: Joint PhD (rerum politicarum) from Hamburg University and Erasmus University Rotterdam, JSD from Yale Law School, and degrees in common/civil law. Visiting appointments include NYU, University of St Gallen, and Tilburg University. He advises governments and organizations on AI regulation, including work with Canada's Privacy Commissioner on PIPEDA reform.
Research Interests: AI regulation, data protection law, privacy law, algorithmic decision-making, and the intersection of law with technological change. His book The Privacy Fallacy (2023) critiques privacy frameworks and proposes duty-based reforms. Recent articles address AI fairness, vaccine passport ethics, and privacy class actions.
Labs/Teams: Leads the Computers and Law Research Group. Actively supervises doctoral/postdoctoral researchers with interdisciplinary or comparative law backgrounds.
