Dr Jennifer Cobbe
LLM (QUB); PhD (QUB)
Assistant Professor in Law and Technology, Fellow of Queens' College
Jennifer Cobbe is Assistant Professor in Law and Technology in the Faculty of Law, as well as being Fellow of Queens' College at the University of Cambridge. She is also a researcher in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Cambridge, a member of the Microsoft Cloud Computing Research Centre, and a Research Affiliate of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy.
Before joining the Law Faculty, she was a Senior Research Associate in the Computer Science Department at Cambridge as part of the Compliant & Accountable Systems research group. Jennifer holds a PhD in Law and an LLM in Law and Governance from Queen’s University, Belfast. For her PhD, she studied the use of machine learning in commercial and state internet surveillance, and the impact of these related forms of surveillance on people and society.
Jennifer is interested in critical, interdisciplinary work on questions of power, political economy, and the law around internet platforms and informational capitalism, technological supply chains and infrastructures, and AI and automated decision-making. She is particularly interested in law’s role in informational capitalism, how legal frameworks (such as data protection) intersect with complex technological systems and with tech industry business models, and how law can better address these questions to more effectively regulate digital technologies in future.