Amelie Sophie Berz

Amelie is a DPhil in Law candidate at Worcester College, Oxford. Her research, supervised by Professor Horst Eidenmüller and Professor James Goudkamp, examines the tort of negligence in the use of AI and the impact of deploying high-performing intelligent agents on the standard of care. She is interested in the intersection of private law theory and AI, drawing on concepts from the behavioural sciences, as well as in comparative private law. Her research is funded by Oxford’s Faculty of Law. 

Amelie works as a Research Associate for Professor Philipp Hacker (European University Viadrina, Germany) and co-convenes the Private Law Postgraduate Research Students Discussion Group. She is a Stipendiary Lecturer in Law at New College, a Stipendiary Lecturer in Contract Law at St John's College, and a Tutor in Tort Law at Exeter College. Previously, she has been a Lecturer in Law at Keble College and an Associate Editor of the Oxford Business Law Blog.

Before starting her DPhil, Amelie completed the MPhil in Law at Brasenose College, Oxford. As an undergraduate, she studied Law and Philosophy in parallel at Heidelberg University, the University of Oxford (New College), and the Université de Genève under a scholarship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, graduating with the German First State Exam in Law and a Magister Iuris (2022). She has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Heidelberg Student Law Review and was a mooting enthusiast during her undergrad studies.

Publications:

• Hacker/Berz, ‘AI and Climate: Challenges for Regulation’, chapter forthcoming in: Cass Sunstein, Lucia Reisch (eds), Elgar Companion to Consumer Behaviour and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (Edward Elgar Publishing, Spring 2025)
• Berz, ‘From Optional to Obligatory: Why AI’s Statistical Superiority Doesn't Dictate Tort Law Duties’ at the Oxford Business Law Blog (23 July 2024)
• Hacker/Berz/Cordes, ‘Legal Requirements for Transparency in LGAIMs’, 23 GRUR (German ‘Journal of Industrial Property and Copyright Law’) 2024, 1777
• Berz, ‘Notes on the AI Act for Chatbot Providers and Deployers’ on the MAIHEM.ai blog (26 February 2024)
• Berz/Engel/Hacker, ‘Regulierung von KI-Meinungen’ (‘Regulation of AI-generated opinions’) in ZUM (German ‘Journal for Copyright and Media Law’) 2023, 586
• Hacker/Engel/Berz, ‘The EU AI Act is improving – but still contains fundamental flaws’ in Techmonitor (19 May 2023)
• Hacker/Berz, ‘Der EU AI Act – Überblick und Ausblick’ (‘The EU AI Act – Overview and Outlook’) in ZRP (Zeitschrift für Rechtspolitik, German ‘Journal for Legal Policy’) 2023, 226
• Berz, Review of ‘Comparative Contract Law: Cases, Materials and Exercises’ by Prof. Thomas Kadner Graziano, LLM (Harvard) in StudZR 2/2020, pp. 403 – 407
• Berz/Verse, ‘Übungsklausur im Unternehmensrecht – Organhaftung in der AG’ (company law) in StudZR 1/2020, pp. 153 – 175
• Berz, ‘German Art Copyright Act Applies Even With GDPR In Effect’ about the respective judgement (OLG Cologne 15 W 27/18) on the King&Spalding website
• Berz/Mandla, ‘Hausarbeit: Übung im Strafrecht für Anfänger – Von Menschen und Hunden’ (criminal law) in StudZR 1/2018, pp. 57 – 94