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

Aug 30, 2025	📝 New article out in The International Journal of Human Rights: “Internet access as a human right: insights from the empirical analysis of the UN international human rights framework” (with A. Kaplane). Check out also our GitHub repo for the scripts and datasets.
Jul 19, 2025	🧠 📝 My chapter “Mental Augmentation, Human Rights, and the Future of Choice” (with S. Damianos) was published in Ethics and Medical Technology (Springer).
Jun 20, 2025	🏫 Co-organized the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science AMU/Law, bringing together researchers interested in the intersection of computational methods and legal science. The two-week program fostered valuable collaborations across disciplines. Check out our GitHub repo.
May 10, 2025	🧬 Published research in EMBO Reports examining questions around neuroscience and neural data protection. Contributing to the ongoing conversation about how we should approach brain data in an era of advancing neurotechnology. 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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