Dr Beril Boz
LL.B., LL.M., CPGS, DPhil in Law
Expertise
Beril is interested in subjects at the intersection of law and digital technologies, particularly data protection law, regulation of emerging digital technologies and services/utilities and legal theories on autonomy.
Current positions
Lecturer in Law, Innovation and Technology
University of Bristol Law School
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Biography
Beril completed her DPhil (PhD) in law at the University of Oxford, Faculty of Law. Prior to joining Bristol Law School, she was a Lecturer in Digital Technology and Law at UCL STEaPP, a Lecturer in Law at New College, University of Oxford.
Her research interests include subjects at the intersection of law and digital technologies. Her doctoral thesis offers a novel theoretical formula on the constituents of the public sphere and re-examines the public-private divide under article 6 of the GDPR (which lays down the lawfulness grounds for personal data processing) considering the transforming characteristics of the online realm. In this regard, she investigates the legitimacy of these lawfulness grounds and the public-private divide thereunder in light of the emergence of what she conceptualised as 'data dependent utilities'.
She also worked on AI’s impact on Labour for Ada Lovelace Institute, and previously worked on the research project 'Enabling Trust, Security and Privacy for Policy Innovation in Tackling Modern Slavery' for the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, in cooperation with the Alan Turing Institute and Open Data Institute, researched the barriers to data sharing in the context of modern slavery policy interventions.
Before her doctorate degree, she completed an LL.M. at the University of Pennsylvania Law School as a Fulbright scholar, following which she practiced law as a litigator and consultant and as a member of New York State and Istanbul Bars, with a particular focus on data protection law, administrative law, content regulations and contracts.
Her research interests include subjects at the intersection of law and digital technologies. Her doctoral thesis offers a novel theoretical formula on the constituents of the public sphere and re-examines the public-private divide under article 6 of the GDPR (which lays down the lawfulness grounds for personal data processing) considering the transforming characteristics of the online realm. In this regard, she investigates the legitimacy of these lawfulness grounds and the public-private divide thereunder in light of the emergence of what she conceptualised as 'data dependent utilities'.
She also worked on AI’s impact on Labour for Ada Lovelace Institute, and previously worked on the research project 'Enabling Trust, Security and Privacy for Policy Innovation in Tackling Modern Slavery' for the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, in cooperation with the Alan Turing Institute and Open Data Institute, researched the barriers to data sharing in the context of modern slavery policy interventions.
Before her doctorate degree, she completed an LL.M. at the University of Pennsylvania Law School as a Fulbright scholar, following which she practiced law as a litigator and consultant and as a member of New York State and Istanbul Bars, with a particular focus on data protection law, administrative law, content regulations and contracts.
Teaching
Teaching:
Beril has been teaching the following units:Undergraduate:
LAWD300003 Information Technology Law (Lecturer)LL.M. | Postgraduate:
LAWDM0070 Information Technology Law (Unit Coordinator and Lecturer)LAWDM0183 Privacy and Data Protection Law (Lecturer)
PhD Supervisions:
Beril supervises PhD theses focusing broadly on AI regulation & data protection law. Previous Teaching Experience:
Beril's previous teaching experience includes data protection law, digital technologies and law, tort, jurisprudence and philosophy of human rights.Specifically, she taught:
| Undergraduate and PPE students the following subjects at several colleges of the University of Oxford: (i) Jurisprudence; (ii) Tort;
| MPA students 'digital technologies and regulation/law' at UCL STEaPP;
| Law and social sciences students at Bahcesehir University Law School (Istanbul), 'Law and Technology' unit.
Other
She founded the Future of Technology and Society Discussion Group at Oxford Law Faculty, and convened it between 2019-2022.She also acted as the Blog Manager of the Cambridge International Law Journal between 2018- 2020.