MsAlexandra Sinclair

LLB(hons)/BA VUW LLM Col PhD LSE

Dr Alexandra Sinclair is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Sydney Law School. She has a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science where her doctorate examined the application of English judicial review doctrines to automated decision-making in the British state. Alexandra has an LLB (hons)/BA with first class honours from Victoria University of Wellington and an LLM with honours from Columbia Law School where she studied as a Fulbright Scholar.

Alexandra's research focuses on public law accountability mechanisms for uses of AI and automation by the state. She was previously a research fellow at the Public Law Project, an NGO in London. Her research with the Public Law Project on automated decision-making in the UK was covered by the Guardian and she has given oral evidence to the UK's House of Commons on proposed changes to data protection law. She has written numerous submissions to the UK Parliament on AI policy and has spoken frequently on automation and AI including at the 2023 'AI Fringe' which ran in parallel to the World AI Safety Summit.

Alexandra has published in the Modern Law Review and Public Law. She is a frequent online contributor and has written for the UK Constitutional Law Association Blog, the Digital Constitutionalist, the Law Society Gazette and Prospect Magazine among others. Alexandra has previously worked as a judge's clerk and barrister in Auckland, New Zealand and as a Fellow at the Knight First Amendment Institute and the Centre for Court Innovation in New York City. She is a past recipient of the Cleary Memorial Prize by the New Zealand Law Foundation.