Nathalie A. Smuha is a legal scholar and philosopher at the KU Leuven Faculty of Law and Criminology, where she examines legal and ethical questions around digital technologies and their impact on human rights, democracy and the rule of law. She is the author of Algorithmic Rule By Law: How Algorithmic Regulation in the Public Sector Erodes the Rule of Law and the editor of The Cambridge Handbook of the Law, Ethics and Policy of Artificial Intelligence (both with Cambridge University Press, 2025). She has taken up Adjunct Professorships at NYU School of Law and Columbia Law School, and she also held visiting positions at Oxford University, the University of Chicago and the University of Birmingham. Prior to her academic turn, she practiced law as a member of the Brussels and the New York Bar and worked at the European Commission (DG Connect), where she coordinated the High-Level Expert Group on AI and contributed to Europe’s AI strategy. She holds BA and MA degrees in both law and philosophy from KU Leuven, a PhD in law from KU Leuven, and an LL.M. from the University of Chicago.