Amelie Sophie Berz

Amelie is a DPhil in Law candidate at Worcester College, Oxford and a Career Development Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. Her research interests lie in tort and contract law, private law theory and comparative private law. She is particularly interested in the principles governing responsibility for harm, including negligence, omissions, causation, strict liability and the relationship between rights and the allocation of losses. Her DPhil research, supervised by Professor James Goudkamp and funded by Oxford’s Faculty of Law, examines tort liability in the use of Artificial Intelligence.

Amelie co-convenes the Private Law Postgraduate Research Students Discussion Group. She has been a Stipendiary Lecturer in Contract Law at St John's College, a Stipendiary Lecturer in EU Law at New College, and an Associate Editor of the Oxford Business Law Blog. She has also taught Tort Law, Land Law, and Roman Law. She is the creator of the Initiative 'Be Gentle, Don’t Cancel' against social ostracism, which was awarded a Worcester College EDI grant in 2025. 

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:

• Berz, ‘Medical Negligence in the Age of Statistically Superior AI’ (2026) 24(1) Medical Law Review fwag007
• Berz, ‘Book Review: Omissions in Tort Law by Sandy Steel’ (2026) Jurisprudence 17(1), 129–137
• Hacker/Berz, ‘AI and Climate: Challenges for Regulation’, in: Cass Sunstein, Lucia Reisch (eds), Elgar Companion to Consumer Behaviour and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (Edward Elgar Publishing 2025)
• Berz, ‘From Optional to Obligatory: Why AI’s Statistical Superiority Doesn't Dictate Tort Law Duties’ on 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