Victoria Adelmant

Victoria Adelmant is a DPhil student in Law at the University of Oxford, as a Clarendon Scholar and Resident at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. Her research focuses on governments’ introduction of digital technologies into public services, examining the public law and human rights implications of public sector ‘digital transformation.’ She is completing her doctoral research project, ‘Rights, Remedies, and the Digital State,’ under the supervision of Professor Jeremias Adams-Prassl and Professor Rebecca Williams.

Victoria was an Adjunct Professor at New York University School of Law until 2024, where she taught seminars on digital technologies and human rights together with Professor Philip Alston, as well as the International Organisations Clinic with Professor Angelina Fisher and Professor Gráinne de Búrca. Until 2025, she was Director of the Digital Welfare State and Human Rights Project at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. In this role, she led research projects into the human rights implications of the digital transformation of government and collaborated with civil society partners around the world to produce reports, policy contributions, and host workshops and strategy sessions. She has given guest lectures at Columbia, McGill, Melbourne, and St Gallen, and was a Visiting Fellow at Lund University in 2025.

Victoria’s work has been published in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the Journal of Human Rights Practice and Public Law. She holds a First Class Law degree from the University of Oxford, for which she won the Harris Prize. For her LL.M. from the London School of Economics, she received a Distinction and the Blackstone Prize for Public International Law. She also holds an LL.M. from New York University, during which she held the Hauser Scholarship, and for which she was awarded the David Moses Memorial Prize for the member of the LL.M. class with the highest academic average and the Jerome Lipper Prize for Distinction in International Legal Studies.