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, the concept of ‘good practice’ in human rights, and developing a search engine for the UN Treaty Bodies’ documents.

news

Apr 15, 2024	The UN Treaty Bodies document search application has been updated to include documents from the CCPR and the CEDAW. Check out the latest version at the application and the GitHub repo.
Mar 19, 2024	🤔 A year ago, I gave ChatGPT an assignment that I use for law students. The results were not great. This time, I compared the performance of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Mistral, and Llama on the same task. Check out the results and my interview in Dziennik Gazeta Prawna!
Feb 2, 2024	📝 Check out our new publication! Together with I. Schiffauer, we analyze the underprotection of labor rights among platform workers, suggesting the reinforcement of their rights by embracing the right to just and favorable conditions of work.
Jan 9, 2024	UN Treaty Bodies’ documents are becoming searchable! New application along with the GitHub repo.

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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