Luise Eder

Luise's doctoral research looks at the governance and regulation of artificial intelligence (AI), with a particular focus on how risk is conceptualised and operationalised in the emerging landscape of AI risk management frameworks. Her work centres on the European Union's approach to AI regulation, exploring how the EU's risk-based framework shapes the normative landscape for companies and other actors required to comply with it. She is especially interested in the discretionary and interpretive spaces that EU AI regulation opens up — the normative decisions it delegates to companies, standards bodies, and other actors in determining what counts as risk, how it should be assessed, and what constitutes adequate mitigation. Her research engages with broader questions of risk regulation theory, examining how regulatory choices about risk classification and management reflect and reproduce particular assumptions about technology, harm, and accountability.

Alongside her doctoral work, Luise is an affiliate and researcher with the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative (AIGI). Her work there focuses on frontier AI risk management, investigating how companies and regulators are developing and implementing practices to identify, assess, and mitigate risks from advanced AI systems. Previously, Luise worked as a Research Assistant for Prof. Jeremias Adams-Prassl and was a visiting student at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI) at the University of Cambridge. 

Before joining the DPhil programme, she was a researcher with the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, where she contributed to research examining the governance of AI and digital technologies by public and private actors, with a focus on the role of transnational actors in the Global South. This included research on the politics of AI policy-making in sub-Saharan Africa, internet shutdowns in conflict-affected areas of Ethiopia, and inequalities in social media content moderation. During this time, she co-organised the Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute that brings together policymakers, academics, NGOs, and other stakeholders to discuss key issues in technology law and policy.

Luise has contributed to the ERC-funded ConflictNet project and other research initiatives, including the Death Penalty Research Unit at the Centre for Criminology. She holds a law degree with a specialisation in European, International and Human Rights Law from the Free University of Berlin, an MA in Development and Social Transformation from the University of Sussex, and an MSc in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford.