Margarita Amaxopoulou

Dr Margarita Amaxopoulou is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Digital Policy at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (CSLS), Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.

She is interested in the ethical, legal and societal aspects of new and emerging technologies and particularly Artificial Intelligence (AI). She has a background in socio-legal and regulation studies and she is currently conducting research on the legal and societal challenges of fact-checking in the online sphere (ReMeD, Horizon). She is also co-designing an executive course focused on media and technology literacy for judges and policymakers (InfoLead, EMIF). She has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship to pursue a 3-year independent research project on emerging credibility contests between different professional communities (like legal and computer science experts) in the AI regulation space and the implications of shifts of influence in AI policy-making processes (starting: May 2025).

Prior to joining the CSLS, she worked as a Researcher in the Cloud Legal Project, at Queen Mary University of London, where she studied legal and regulatory issues triggered by generative AI. Her PhD, which she obtained from the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College, London (KCL), examined how AI regulation efforts trigger institutional changes in the UK and the EU, involving interviews with AI regulation participants (viva: no revisions). Her doctoral work was supported by the ‘Anthony Guest PhD Scholarship’, the only 3-year generic scholarship offered to prospective PhD students by KCL Law School in 2018, on the basis of the best research proposal in the year's cohort. Her writing-up year was supported by two competitive scholarships from Onassis Foundation and A.G. Leventis Foundation. During her PhD studies, she was a Visiting Lecturer at KCL Law School, a summer research fellow in the 'Legal Priorities Project' (now 'Institute for Law and AI'). In addition, she also held a Research Associate position at the University of Surrey, where she conducted research in collaboration with the UK House of Commons Library on hate speech against MPs.

She has published on the legal challenges that online crowdfunding platforms pose for consumer protection, on different regulatory approaches that local transport regulators in the UK take towards platform companies like Uber and on hate speech in political discourse.

She has taught cloud computing law at Queen Mary University of London, consumer protection law at KCL, and business law at Keele Law School, and she has offered various guest lectures in technology law subjects in these universities. She has obtained an LLM in Transnational Law from KCL (Distinction), with the support of a Yeoh Tiong Lay Scholarship, and an LLB from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (Valedictorian).