Patricia García Majado

Patricia García Majado is an Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Oviedo (Spain) since 2021. She obtained her PhD from the same academic institution in 2020, graduating with the Spanish Extraordinary Doctoral Award, the highest distinction for doctoral research. Her dissertation also received an Accésit in the Nicolás Pérez Serrano Prize from the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies (CEPC). She has been an academic visitor at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (Germany, 2018) and at Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (France, 2017). Her stay at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford is funded by the José Castillejo Fellowship awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Universities, which supports research stays at leading international institutions.

She is the author of the monograph From the Immunities of Power to the Immunity of the Legal System and Its Pathologies (CEPC, 2022). Her main research interests lie in constitutional theory, fundamental rights, and democratic theory, as reflected in numerous articles and book chapters published by leading national and international journals and academic publishers in the field of Public Law, as well as in numerous lectures and seminars delivered at Universities around the world. She is currently a member of the research team of two national projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science: Challenges of Artificial Intelligence for the Social and Democratic State and the Rule of Law (led by Professor Presno Linera) and Theoretical, Ethical and Regulatory Challenges of Artificial Intelligence. Opportunities and Limits of Its Regulation (led by Professor Campione).

Her current research focuses on the legal analysis of the impact of artificial intelligence on the contemporary democratic constitutional system. In this context, she has published several papers addressing social scoring systems, prohibited practices under the European Artificial Intelligence Act, judicial review of automated systems, and the normative functions that artificial intelligence may perform. She is currently working on a monograph that aims to outline a general theory on the role that predictions—initially an alien, though not unfamiliar, element in Law—play within the legal system, and on how their use through artificial intelligence systems may affect its sovereignty and democratic character.