Holli Sargeant
@hollisargeant.bsky.social
Research Fellow in Law & AI, St John's College, University of Cambridge
Focusing on legal frameworks for algorithmic decision-making & role of AI in justice systems.
hollisargeant.github.io
Focusing on legal frameworks for algorithmic decision-making & role of AI in justice systems.
hollisargeant.github.io
Pinned
My article—Mind the Gap: Securing Algorithmic Explainability for Credit Decisions Beyond the UK GDPR—shows UK’s DUAA new Art 22 weakens transparency & accountability for automated decisions:
• Permissive human involvement
• Limited to special category data
• Replace explanation w notification 🧵 2/4
• Permissive human involvement
• Limited to special category data
• Replace explanation w notification 🧵 2/4
Automated decisions are increasingly made by opaque models—the UK’s DUAA amendments to #GDPR makes them even harder to challenge. My new article in @elsevierconnect.bsky.social CL&SR sets out what’s at stake and how to fix the explainability gap. #LawSky
doi.org/10.1016/j.cl...
doi.org/10.1016/j.cl...
doi.org
December 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Automated decisions are increasingly made by opaque models—the UK’s DUAA amendments to #GDPR makes them even harder to challenge. My new article in @elsevierconnect.bsky.social CL&SR sets out what’s at stake and how to fix the explainability gap. #LawSky
doi.org/10.1016/j.cl...
doi.org/10.1016/j.cl...
2025 has been a turning-point year for the “right to explanation” and GDPR Article 22. From C-203/22 Dun & Bradstreet, to the UK’s new Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, to the EU’s Digital Omnibus proposals — automated decision-making rules are shifting fast. 🧵 1/4
December 4, 2025 at 10:39 AM
2025 has been a turning-point year for the “right to explanation” and GDPR Article 22. From C-203/22 Dun & Bradstreet, to the UK’s new Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, to the EU’s Digital Omnibus proposals — automated decision-making rules are shifting fast. 🧵 1/4
Honored that our paper “Detecting Legal Citations in United Kingdom Court Judgments” was featured in the Senior Area Chair Highlights at #EMNLP2025!
Thanks to my co-authors Andreas Östling and @mansmag.bsky.social and to the reviewers and SACs for the recognition.
aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
Thanks to my co-authors Andreas Östling and @mansmag.bsky.social and to the reviewers and SACs for the recognition.
aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Honored that our paper “Detecting Legal Citations in United Kingdom Court Judgments” was featured in the Senior Area Chair Highlights at #EMNLP2025!
Thanks to my co-authors Andreas Östling and @mansmag.bsky.social and to the reviewers and SACs for the recognition.
aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
Thanks to my co-authors Andreas Östling and @mansmag.bsky.social and to the reviewers and SACs for the recognition.
aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
Our #EMNLP2025 paper, “Detecting Legal Citations in United Kingdom Court Judgments,” presents the first systematic study of legal citation detection for UK case law and legislation.
aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m... @mansmag.bsky.social
aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m... @mansmag.bsky.social
Detecting Legal Citations in United Kingdom Court Judgments
Holli Sargeant, Andreas Östling, Måns Magnusson. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2025.
aclanthology.org
November 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Our #EMNLP2025 paper, “Detecting Legal Citations in United Kingdom Court Judgments,” presents the first systematic study of legal citation detection for UK case law and legislation.
aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m... @mansmag.bsky.social
aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m... @mansmag.bsky.social
Reposted by Holli Sargeant
The Law, Ethics & Policy of AI Blog is back!
In a new post, Arina Shah @hollisargeant.bsky.social @mackenziej.bsky.social Adrian Weller&Umang Bhatt explain how #uncertainty in #AI can lead to discrimination and why selective friction may better than abstention
🔗 www.law.kuleuven.be/ai-summer-sc...
In a new post, Arina Shah @hollisargeant.bsky.social @mackenziej.bsky.social Adrian Weller&Umang Bhatt explain how #uncertainty in #AI can lead to discrimination and why selective friction may better than abstention
🔗 www.law.kuleuven.be/ai-summer-sc...
October 14, 2025 at 7:09 AM
The Law, Ethics & Policy of AI Blog is back!
In a new post, Arina Shah @hollisargeant.bsky.social @mackenziej.bsky.social Adrian Weller&Umang Bhatt explain how #uncertainty in #AI can lead to discrimination and why selective friction may better than abstention
🔗 www.law.kuleuven.be/ai-summer-sc...
In a new post, Arina Shah @hollisargeant.bsky.social @mackenziej.bsky.social Adrian Weller&Umang Bhatt explain how #uncertainty in #AI can lead to discrimination and why selective friction may better than abstention
🔗 www.law.kuleuven.be/ai-summer-sc...
Reposted by Holli Sargeant
Check out the latest from the SSRN #blog which includes a selection of #research on #Cyberspace Law.
Read More: spkl.io/63321AJgCd
#Academicsky #Lawsky
Read More: spkl.io/63321AJgCd
#Academicsky #Lawsky
The Latest Research on Cyberspace Law
This list includes a selection of the latest research on Cyberspace Law posted to SSRN in 2025. Seeing is Believing? Deepfakes in Financial Markets by Michal Lavi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) &…
spkl.io
August 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Check out the latest from the SSRN #blog which includes a selection of #research on #Cyberspace Law.
Read More: spkl.io/63321AJgCd
#Academicsky #Lawsky
Read More: spkl.io/63321AJgCd
#Academicsky #Lawsky
I never need an excuse for summer in Greece, but I'm happy to be in Athens for #FAccT2025, where I'll be presenting two exciting new papers this week!
Can't wait to connect with everyone in Athens!
Can't wait to connect with everyone in Athens!
June 23, 2025 at 5:03 AM
I never need an excuse for summer in Greece, but I'm happy to be in Athens for #FAccT2025, where I'll be presenting two exciting new papers this week!
Can't wait to connect with everyone in Athens!
Can't wait to connect with everyone in Athens!
📢 New Paper! Check out my paper "From Estimation to Discrimination: Algorithmic Bias, Predictive Uncertainty, and Anti-Discrimination Law" that explores how different types of predictive uncertainty can cause unlawful discrimination.
dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
#AcademicSky #LawSky
dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
#AcademicSky #LawSky
From Estimation to Discrimination: Algorithmic Bias, Predictive Uncertainty, and Anti-Discrimination Law
Machine learning (ML) systems, increasingly deployed in high-stakes decisionmaking, inherently produce uncertain outputs that can lead to unlawful discriminatio
dx.doi.org
June 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
📢 New Paper! Check out my paper "From Estimation to Discrimination: Algorithmic Bias, Predictive Uncertainty, and Anti-Discrimination Law" that explores how different types of predictive uncertainty can cause unlawful discrimination.
dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
#AcademicSky #LawSky
dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
#AcademicSky #LawSky
Reposted by Holli Sargeant
Amazing opportunities to work with Jat Singh on responsible AI, for both a PhD student and a postdoc - he's particularly keen to find someone from a law background interested in FAccT-related themes
More info -
PhD: www.compacctsys.net/RespAI-PhD.pdf
Postdoc: www.compacctsys.net/RespAI-Postdoc.pdf
More info -
PhD: www.compacctsys.net/RespAI-PhD.pdf
Postdoc: www.compacctsys.net/RespAI-Postdoc.pdf
www.compacctsys.net
June 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Amazing opportunities to work with Jat Singh on responsible AI, for both a PhD student and a postdoc - he's particularly keen to find someone from a law background interested in FAccT-related themes
More info -
PhD: www.compacctsys.net/RespAI-PhD.pdf
Postdoc: www.compacctsys.net/RespAI-Postdoc.pdf
More info -
PhD: www.compacctsys.net/RespAI-PhD.pdf
Postdoc: www.compacctsys.net/RespAI-Postdoc.pdf
So excited to have two papers at @facct.bsky.social w @mansmag.bsky.social!
📄 One paper formalises UK anti-discrimination law in framework for automated decision-making: arxiv.org/abs/2407.00400
💡 The other explores transformers for better hate crime classification in Sweden.
See you in Athens!
📄 One paper formalises UK anti-discrimination law in framework for automated decision-making: arxiv.org/abs/2407.00400
💡 The other explores transformers for better hate crime classification in Sweden.
See you in Athens!
April 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM
So excited to have two papers at @facct.bsky.social w @mansmag.bsky.social!
📄 One paper formalises UK anti-discrimination law in framework for automated decision-making: arxiv.org/abs/2407.00400
💡 The other explores transformers for better hate crime classification in Sweden.
See you in Athens!
📄 One paper formalises UK anti-discrimination law in framework for automated decision-making: arxiv.org/abs/2407.00400
💡 The other explores transformers for better hate crime classification in Sweden.
See you in Athens!
🚀 Just Published!
Check out our new article in Artificial Intelligence and Law where we use Claude 3 Opus to classify and analyse UK summary judgment cases—introducing a new functional taxonomy tailored for UK legal topics.
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s105...
Check out our new article in Artificial Intelligence and Law where we use Claude 3 Opus to classify and analyse UK summary judgment cases—introducing a new functional taxonomy tailored for UK legal topics.
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s105...
Topic classification of case law using a large language model and a new taxonomy for UK law: AI insights into summary judgment - Artificial Intelligence and Law
This paper addresses a critical gap in legal analytics by developing and applying a novel taxonomy for topic classification of summary judgment cases in the United Kingdom. Using a curated dataset of ...
doi.org
February 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
🚀 Just Published!
Check out our new article in Artificial Intelligence and Law where we use Claude 3 Opus to classify and analyse UK summary judgment cases—introducing a new functional taxonomy tailored for UK legal topics.
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s105...
Check out our new article in Artificial Intelligence and Law where we use Claude 3 Opus to classify and analyse UK summary judgment cases—introducing a new functional taxonomy tailored for UK legal topics.
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s105...