Zoya Yasmine

Zoya is a DPhil student in the Faculty of Law and a recipient of an MTST scholarship. Her thesis explores trade secrets vis-à-vis patent law, data protection, and whistleblowing protections in medical technology development. She is a research assistant to Professor Jeremias Adams-Prassl, supporting the Faculty’s AI and Law project alongside the ESRC-funded iManage project. Zoya is Co-Convenor of the Intellectual Property Discussion Group and serves as General Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, alongside Amy Hemsworth.

From 2026/27, Zoya will also join LSE as a Guest Teacher on the undergraduate IP module for the trade marks and patent elements of the course. Zoya has worked at numerous start-ups and organisations in the healthcare and AI industry, including GSK, the General Medical Council, MeditSimple, and BenevolentAI. Zoya is also Director at We and AI (a critical AI literacy non-profit organisation behind projects such as the AI Resist List), where she runs the internationally recognised Better Images of AI library.

Her research has been awarded prizes from the Centre for Law, Medicine, and Life Sciences at the University of Cambridge (2026), LSE Law Review (2024), and Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute (2024). More broadly, Zoya's research interests and publications span the secondary uses of health data, privacy-enhancing technologies (e.g., synthetic data), automated decision-making and human-in-the-loop systems, alongside discriminatory access to healthcare technologies.

Publications

Articles

Yasmine Z, ‘The Complexities and Guises of Anonymity: Reframing the Value of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies in Medical AI’ (2026) 28(2) Law, Innovation and Technology LINK

Yasmine Z, ‘Privacy-Enhancing Technologies and Privacy-By-Design for Medical AI’ (2026) 33(4) European Journal of Health Law LINK

Chiodo M, Müller D, Siewert P, Wetherall JL, Yasmine Z, Burden J, ‘Formalising human-in-the-loop: Computation reductions, failure modes, and legal-moral responsibility’ (2026) The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) LINK

Book reviews

Yasmine Z, ‘Human rights and intellectual property at crossroads’ (2026) 21(8) Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice LINK

Yasmine Z, ‘Margaret Thatcher: The Prime Ministers Series’ (2026) Political Studies Review LINK