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Tobias Mahler is a Professor of Law at the University of Oslo's Department of Private Law and serves as deputy director of the Center for Legal Informatics. He leads the legal innovation lab LILO and has been a visiting scholar at prestigious institutions including Stanford Law School and the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany. Originally trained as a German lawyer, Mahler has practical experience having previously practiced as a paralegal in Norway.
Professor Mahler's research spans the intersection of law and emerging technologies, with particular expertise in artificial intelligence regulation, robotics law, cybersecurity, and digital governance. His work focuses on developing legal frameworks that balance innovation with risk management and proportionality. He has published extensively on the EU AI Act, examining its risk-based approach and implementation challenges across various technological domains. His research also addresses the legal implications of healthcare robotics, cloud computing services, and domain name systems in the evolving digital landscape.
Analysis of Mahler's recent publications reveals a strong focus on the regulatory challenges posed by artificial intelligence, particularly the EU's regulatory framework. His work examines both high-risk and non-high-risk AI systems, exploring compliance procedures, national implementation strategies, and the relationship between risk management and legal proportionality. He has made significant contributions to understanding how legal frameworks should address specific applications like medical AI, care robotics, and smart robotics within the EU context. His research consistently bridges technical and legal perspectives, emphasizing the need for adaptable regulatory approaches that can keep pace with technological innovation.
Professor Mahler holds several important positions that demonstrate his influence in the field. He serves as a member of the Research Council's advisory expert group for the KI initiative (2023), is a board member of the Norwegian Association for Law and EDB, and participates in Standard Norway's committee on Artificial Intelligence (SN/K 586). He has led significant studies for both the Research Council of Norway on research data sharing and for the EU Commission related to the Digital Services Act. Previously, he served as program manager for the LLM in Information and Communication Technology Law.
At the University of Oslo, Mahler is actively involved in research groups focused on Law and Technology (JOT) and Market, Innovation and Competition (MIK). He leads the legal innovation lab LILO and contributes to projects including Societal Security and Digital Identities (SODI) and Vulnerability in a Robot Society (VIROS), which examine the legal and societal implications of emerging technologies in security contexts and robotics.
