New visitor at CECS - Silja Voeneky
Silja Voeneky is a professor of public international law at the Faculty of Law, University of Freiburg/Germany. Her research covers various core areas of international law, such as international environmental law, human rights and humanitarian law, as well as tech law. She links aspects of ethics and law, particularly in the field of biotechnology and AI regulation and governance. Until 2016, she was a member of the German Ethics Council and in 2015/16 a Fellow of the Harvard Law School Human Rights Program. She is currently a member and chair of interdisciplinary research initiatives and networks, such as the Emerging Tech and Adaptative Governance Research Initiative, as well as co-director of the US/German Human Rights Research Consortium. She is also a member of various expert commissions, such as the Advisory Council on International Law of the German Federal Foreign Office (Völkerrechtswissenschaftlicher Beirat), the Ethics Council of the Max Planck Society, and she is chair of the Commission for Responsible Research (KVF) of the University of Freiburg. In the field of AI law and governance, she is a co-ed of the Cambridge Handbook of Responsible AI (CUP 2022, open access).