Niklas Eder

Niklas Eder is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Policy at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford Law School, and a Visiting Lecturer at King's College London. He co-founded User Rights and previously held roles at the Oversight Board, Yale Law School's Information Society Project, and Columbia University as a Visiting Scholar.

Education:

• LL.M., King’s College London
• Maîtrise en Droit, Université Paris 2
• Law Degree, Humboldt University Berlin
• PhD, University of Leipzig

His research focuses on content moderation, constitutional law, and the law and ethics of technology, with recent work analyzing systemic risk assessments under the Digital Services Act and the legitimacy of the European Court of Justice in rule-of-law conflicts. He has taught courses such as “Technology, Democracy and Society” and “The Law and Ethics of Big Data” across institutions including King’s College London, Yale, and Humboldt University.

His publications examine intersections of law, AI, and societal governance, including works on machine learning-based content moderation and digital policy frameworks. He contributes to both academic and popular outlets like the Stanford Technology Law Review and Tech Policy Press.