Johann Laux

Johann Laux is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. He researches the legal, ethical, and social implications of emerging technologies such as AI and Big Data. His current research project asks how human oversight of AI can be effectively implemented. At HIIG, Johann contributes to the research project Human in the loop? Autonomy and automation in socio-technical systems by bringing in his legal expertise and experience from this own research project on human oversight of AI.

Johann graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a degree in Governance and from the University of Hamburg with degrees in Law. He earned a PhD in Law at the University of Hamburg, researching the institutional design of courts with mechanisms of collective intelligence. Johann studied Philosophy at King’s College London and was a Visiting Researcher at UC Berkeley, School of Law. Before joining Oxford, Johann was an Emile Noël Fellow at New York University’s School of Law and a Program Affiliate with the Digital Welfare State and Human Rights Project at New York University’s School of Law. He is a Non-Residential Fellow at the GovTech Campus in Berlin since 2024.

Johann has great experience in public writing and publishing, having previously worked with publications such as Monocle, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Die ZEIT.