Malcolm LANGFORD
Professor of Public Law
University of Oslo
Professional Appointments
Malcolm Langford is a Professor of Public Law, University of Oslo and Co-Director of TRUST: Norwegian Centre for Trustworthy AI.
Professor Langford is also an Associate Fellow at the Integreat Centre of Excellence on Knowledge-informed Machine Learning, and has previously directed the Centre of Experiential Legal Learning (a Centre of Excellence) and the ISDS Academic Forum in the UN investment arbitration reform process, and co-directed the Centre on Law and Social Transformation (LawTransform).
Research Areas
A lawyer and social scientist, his publications span emerging technologies, international law, and comparative constitutionalism, and he has won several prizes for his work on international adjudication and education.
Professor Langford is the Co-Editor of the Oxford Handbook on Economic & Social Rights and Cambridge University Book Series on Globalization and Human Rights. His academic publications also include 'Taming the Digital Leviathan: Automated Decision-Making and International Human Rights', (2020) 114 American Journal of International Law (AJIL) – Unbound, 'Bargaining in the Shadow of Awards’, (2024) 35(3) European Journal of International Law, and Limits of the Legal Complex: Nordic Lawyers and Political Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 2021).
Professor Langford has led or co-led over 13 externally financed research projects, including COPIID (Compliance Politics and International Investment Disputes), Digital Lawyer, Advancing Data Science in Migration Law (NORDASIL). He has also advised a range of governments, international organisations, and NGOs on human rights and technology, and been a Visiting Fellow at the University of California (Berkeley), UNSW Gilbert + Tobin Centre, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, University of Mannheim, University of Stellenbosch, and Pluricourts Centre of Excellence on International Courts.
