Staff profile

Stergios is an Assistant Professor in AI Law at Durham Law School. At Durham, he is acting as the Univeristy's lead researcher in two multidisciplinary projects in law and AI funded by InnovateUK and Horizon Europe. He is also creating bespoke teaching materials and teaching core undergraduate (public law) and specialist undergraduate and postgraduate (AI law) modules, as well asconducting research on the regulation of law and AI.

Previously, Stergios was a Lecturer in Law and the Programme Director of the LLM/MSc in Law, Artificial Intelligence and New Technologies at Keele Law School. He joined Keele in 2023, having previously worked as a Researcher on Law and AI at the University of Oxford, Faculty of Law. In previous work, Stergios has led the legal and ethical work package of an international multidisciplinary research project (Horizon2020, DARLENE), seeking to embed legal and ethical principles in the development of AI and AR technologies for policing (see techUK blog post). He has also led work on legal opportunities and constraints in designing a justice data infrastructure in the UK as part of a UKRI-funded project (AI for English Law at the University of Oxford), leading to the drafting of a policy report addressed to the HMCTS and other public bodies interested in creating research data infrastructures (see Oxford report).

Stergios completed his DPhil (PhD) in Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford in 2021. His doctoral thesis explored the legal and non-legal regulation of data sharing in the UK public sector, focusing on the use of government data by independent researchers. Before his doctoral research, Stergios completed an MSt and an MJur at the University of Oxford, specialising in human rights law and legal philosophy, as well as an LLM in Criminal Law & Criminology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). His research has been published in international and domestic peer-reviewed legal and interdisciplinary journals.

Stergios has taught Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford, where he also served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA), and Jurisprudence at Queen Mary University of London. At Keele, he was the module convenor for the undergraduate module Law and New Technologies and the postgraduate module Robots and AI Law.

Chapter in book

• Aidinlis, S. (2022). Government-to-Business (G2B) research data sharing and the GDPR: Reconciling the public with the private?. In Research Handbook on EU Data Protection Law (115–142). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800371682.00014

Journal Article

• Aidinlis, S., Smith, H., Armour, J., & Adams-Prassl, J. (2024). Lawful Grounds to Share Justice Data for LawTech Innovation in the UK. Law Quarterly Review, 140, 544-569
• Aidinlis, S. (2024). In for the long ride? Law and technology education in the UK and its utility in pursuing responsible tech careers. The Law Teacher, 58(2), 234-254. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069400.2024.2336882
• Aidinlis, S. (2023). Beyond Freedom of Information Legislation: Navigating Access to Government Data for Independent Research in the UK. Public Law,
• Aidinlis, S. (2020). The EU GDPR in Times of Crisis: COVID-19 and the Noble Dream of Europeanisation. Journal of European Consumer and Market Law, 9(4), 151 – 156
• Aidinlis, S. (2019). Defining the ‘legal’: two conceptions of legal consciousness and legal alienation in administrative justice research. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 41(4), 495-513. https://doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2019.1663024
• Mourby, M., Mackey, E., Elliot, M., Gowans, H., Wallace, S. E., Bell, J., Smith, H., Aidinlis, S., & Kaye, J. (2018). Are ‘pseudonymised’ data always personal data? Implications of the GDPR for administrative data research in the UK. Computer Law and Security Review, 34(2), 222-233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr.2018.01.002