The impact of AI on your PhD in Law (and your research): how to integrate AI in your legal analysis and how to use/not use AI for your research

8 décembre 2025

Dr. Fabian Lütz, UNIL

Intervenant: Fabian Lütz, Docteur en droit (Lausanne), LL.M. (Bruges), Maître en droit (Paris)

Fabian Lütz (PhD in Law, University of Lausanne) is an academic researching, writing and speaking regularly on questions concerning the regulation of AI, AI and law, gender equality and non-discrimination often with an interdisciplinary perspective (see website: www.algorithmic-discrimination.com ).

He has more than 10 years of practical experience in administration and private practice. Most recently he was the Legal Officer for Equinet on the Project Equality-proofing AI systems: “Equality by Design, Deliberation and Oversight” and previously was a Legal Officer of the European Commission (DG Justice).

This workshop is for PhD-students of all stages in their PhD. There are three main objectives to this workshop: First to discuss for the purposes of legal analysis, what we do mean when we speak about Artificial Intelligence. Second, to discuss, assess and give guidance on how AI could be reflected within the substantive analysis of the PhD and your research. Third, the challenges, risks and opportunutites of using AI in your legal research.

The workshop is divided into four parts:

1) a theoretical part, that briefly presents AI concepts and its challenges and opportunities in general, 

2) the main part of why and how AI can be integrated into a PhD in Law, 

3) A discussion of why including AI in your legal research could be beneficial, and

4) a final part that discusses the risks and opportunities of using AI in legal research.

The workshop also includes numerous examples and relevant literature, notably with regard to the question where a specific legal analysis of AI could play a role in a PhD-thesis or more generally in research.

The workshop will be interactive and foresees a Q&A session. It will also gives further reading suggestions, recommendations and ideas for those who envisage to pursue an integration of AI into their legal analysis. In the weeks following the seminar, interested participants can schedule optional 15min follow-up calls for brainstorming or if they would like to discuss specific questions/ideas in relation to the seminar.

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