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

Oct 7, 2024	🏛️ I have been appointed by Adam Bodnar, Minister of Justice of Poland, as a member of the European Union Law Advisory Team, where I will focus on new technologies and Artificial Intelligence.
Sep 30, 2024	A significant achievement for The Neurorights Foundation! This weekend, the California Governor signed The California Neurorights Act, which the Foundation sponsored. Consumer neural data has been defined and added to the category of personal sensitive data. Read the story in the New York Times.
Aug 1, 2024	🎓 I have started my 10-month-long Fulbright scholarship at the Neurotechnology Center, Columbia University. My research will focus on mental privacy and the potential for decoding speech through neurotech devices.
May 1, 2024	🌍 Excited to join the Neurorights Foundation as the Director of European Affairs, where I will be contributing to advancing human rights in the context of neurotechnologies.

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, 2023

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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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