Łukasz Szoszkiewicz

I am a social scientist with a legal background and a self-trained data scientist.

My research focuses on international human rights law and the challenges posed by new technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence and neurotechnologies. Considering how digital technologies erase geographical boundaries, it’s vital to address new challenges from a global perspective. This is why my work concentrates on the UN framework, with a specific focus on social rights and the rights of the child.

I employ a range of methodologies, including natural language processing (Python), statistics, corpus linguistics, and grounded theory.

Currently, I am working on neurorights and develop a search engine for the UN Treaty Bodies’ documents.

During the 2024-25 academic year, I’m on a Fulbright scholarship at the Columbia University (Neurotechnology Center), focusing on mental privacy and speech decoding.

news

Nov 17, 2025	🎯 Two-day workshop on AI-assisted coding at the Global Campus of Human Rights in Venice. Human rights professionals with zero programming experience built working legal document search tools. Key insight: teaching AI literacy isn’t about making lawyers into programmers – it’s about showing what’s possible. Workshop materials available here.
Nov 14, 2025	🧠 Had the chance to comment for CNN on something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately: what happens to mental privacy when neurotechnology can decode our mental images?
Nov 7, 2025	💡⚙️ Built in just a week (after hours) — database of Poland’s Constitutional Court’s decisions - showcases what happens when a lawyer teams up with AI. A quick, hands-on prototype to be developed!
Nov 3, 2025	📘 New publication – AI Act. Akt w sprawie sztucznej inteligencji. Komentarz (Wolters Kluwer, 2025). The first Polish-language commentary on the EU AI Act, covering risk-based classification, compliance duties, and links to GDPR and fundamental rights. Read more.

selected publications

Business and Human Rights in Central and Eastern Europe: Constitutional Law as a Driver for the International Human Rights Law

Ł. Szoszkiewicz

Business and Human Rights Journal, 2024

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This paper analyses five constitutional developments in Central and Eastern Europe that can impact the domestic implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). Using Czechia, Poland and Slovenia as examples, the paper highlights four potential drivers, namely: (1) the process of constitutionalizing human rights; (2) the proliferation of the doctrine of horizontal effect of constitutional rights; (3) the constitutional legitimacy of state intervention in the free market economy; and (4) the mechanism of judicial review. Furthermore, the author underlines the most significant challenge, which is increasing resistance to international norms in some countries, e.g., Poland. The paper concludes that the jurisprudence of the constitutional courts can facilitate the domestic implementation of the UNGPs, particularly Pillars I (State duty to protect human rights) and III (access to remedy).
Data solidarity: a blueprint for governing health futures

B. Prainsack, S. El-Sayed, N. Forgó, Ł. Szoszkiewicz, and 1 more author

The Lancet Digital Health, 2022

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