Łukasz Szoszkiewicz

I research how AI and neurotechnologies challenge human rights law, and I build practical tools for legal and human rights research.

I am an Assistant Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University, Director for European Affairs at The Neurorights Foundation, and a 2025-26 re:constitution fellow hosted by HURIDOCS.

Previously, I was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University’s Neurotechnology Center, where I focused on mental privacy and speech decoding.

My work sits at the intersection of international human rights law, legal informatics, and computational social science. I focus especially on the UN framework, mental privacy, digital technologies, social rights, and the problem of making complex legal materials easier to search, analyze, and use.

I combine legal analysis with natural language processing, statistics, corpus linguistics, and grounded theory.

What I do

Research: I study how emerging technologies, especially AI and neurotechnologies, reshape human rights obligations and regulatory frameworks.
Build: I develop open-source search and analysis tools for human rights case law and UN documents, including dashboards for the Polish Constitutional Court, the European Court of Human Rights, and UN Treaty Bodies materials.
Teach: I design courses and workshops that help lawyers, researchers, and human rights professionals use computational methods and AI tools in practice.

Current focus

I am especially interested in collaborations on human rights, legal tech, and AI governance.

news

Feb 20, 2026	📚 Published a new app with the database of the Polish Constitutional Court: Orzecznictwo TK - Dashboard Ekspert. The dashboard supports paragraph-level legal search with advanced filters (section, year, decision type, judge, and signature) across 3,288 cases and 265,870 paragraphs from 1997 to 2026.
Feb 5, 2026	🤝 I started my re:constitution fellowship with HURIDOCS supported by Forum Transregionale Studien and Democracy Reporting International. Looking forward to builing some useful digital tools for human rights experts!
Dec 12, 2025	🤖 Leading a team at UAM Faculty of Law and Administration (with Dr Igor B. Nestoruk) in collaboration with NASK to fine-tune Polish Large Language Models (PLLuM) for legal and administrative tasks. Our team created specialized datasets that accurately reflect language use in legislation and administrative decisions. The goal: developing AI models capable of precise generation of legal content while maintaining substantive and formal correctness.
Dec 9, 2025	🚀 Led a vibecoding workshop at International Telecommunication Union HQ in Geneva, working with human rights professionals from OHCHR, Impact OSS, and HURIDOCS on AI-human collaboration. The focus: building simple but transformative tools - document analysis dashboards, search engines, filtering systems - that solve real bottlenecks when working with hundreds of PDFs. Not replacing human expertise, but amplifying it. Thank you FNF Human Rights Hub for the invitation to share the responsible vibecoding approach with this incredible group.

selected publications

Mental privacy: navigating risks, rights and regulation

Ł. Szoszkiewicz, and R. Yuste

EMBO Reports, 2025

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The article analyses how rapid advances in neurotechnology erode the boundary between mental activity and data, creating novel risks for mental privacy. It surveys emerging national and international regulatory approaches to neural data and proposes a framework grounded in user agency, data solidarity and the precautionary principle to strengthen legal protections for mental privacy.
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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