Amelie is a DPhil in Law candidate at the University of Oxford. Her research, supervised by Professor Horst Eidenmüller and Professor James Goudkamp, examines tort liability in the use of high-performing AI. She is interested in the intersection of private law theory and AI, drawing on concepts from the behavioural sciences, as well as in comparative private law. Her research is funded by Oxford’s Faculty of Law.
Amelie is a Stipendiary Lecturer in Contract Law at St John's College and a Tutor in Tort Law at Exeter College. She works as a Research Associate for Professor Philipp Hacker (European University Viadrina, Germany). Previously, she has been a Stipendiary Lecturer in Law at New College, a Lecturer in Law at Keble College, and an Associate Editor of the Oxford Business Law Blog.
Before starting her DPhil, Amelie completed the MPhil in Law at Brasenose College, Oxford. As an undergraduate, she studied Law and Philosophy in parallel at Heidelberg University, the University of Oxford (New College), and the Université de Genève under a scholarship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, graduating with the German First State Exam in Law and a Magister Iuris (2022).