Dr Nóra Ní Loideáin is Assistant Professor in Law and Director of the Information Law & Policy Centre at the University of London’s Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Her research focuses on EU law, European human rights law, and emerging technologies, particularly within the contexts of privacy and data protection, criminal justice, and national security. Recent research includes a forthcoming monograph on EU Data Privacy Law and Serious Crime (Oxford University Press).
Nóra holds BA, LLB, and LLM (Public Law) degrees from the National University of Ireland, Galway, and was awarded a PhD in law from the University of Cambridge. Previously, Nóra held the posts of Visiting Lecturer in Law at King’s College London and Research Fellow and Affiliated Lecturer in Law at the University of Cambridge. In 2019, she was appointed to the UK Home Office Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group (BFEG) which provides independent advice ensuring the robustness of evidence underpinning biometrics and forensics policy development for public security within the Home Office.
Nóra is a member of the Board of Trustees for the British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) and an editor of leading law journal International Data Privacy Law (Oxford University Press). She is also a Senior Fellow at the University of Johannesburg and an Associate Fellow at the University of Cambridge Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI). Prior to her academic career, Nóra was a Legal and Policy Officer for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions of Ireland and clerked for the Irish Supreme Court. Her work on AI, human rights and data protection law, policing and Brexit, has been published by the BBC, The Guardian, Science, the House of Lords, and the United Nations.
