Chair Tamò-Larrieux

Aurelia Tamò-Larrieux is Full Professor at the University of St. Gallen, leading the chair for Law & Technology and the Legal Design & Code Lab.

Aurelia has a background in law and economics and specializes in research at the intersection of law and digital technologies with a particular focus on privacy, data protection, design approaches, transparency of automated decision-making and artificial intelligence, automatically processable regulation, and trust in automation. Aurelia’s scientific publications on those subjects are open access and she has presented her research at numerous international conferences. During her doctoral research, which was fully funded by a scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation, Aurelia analyzed the application of the concept of data protection by design and default in an Internet of Things environment. Her research  “Designing for Privacy and Its Legal Framework” was published by Springer and won the Issekutz and SIAF award.

Prior to her joining the University of St. Gallen, Aurelia worked as an Associate Professor at the University of Lausanne (UNIL), Faculty of Law and as a lecturer at EPFL, teaching Law and Computation to engineers and computer scientists. Before that Aurelia worked as an Assistant Professor for Privacy, Security, and Computational Law at Maastricht University and was an active member of the Law and Tech Lab and the Digital Legal Lab network in the Netherlands. She was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Pervasive Computing at ETH Zurich, the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and at the Institute of Computer Science at the University of St. Gallen. Furthermore, Aurelia has taught various courses and given multiple guest lectures, notably at Harvard University, the University of Geneva, the University of St. Gallen, and Mykolas Romeris University.

Aurelia is Co-Principal Investigator of the SNSF-funded DECODE project on evidence-informed and human-centered data governance policies based on privacy-enhancing design and code;  the SNSF-funded CoCoDa project addressing the concentration and control of data in large online platforms; and of the Bridge Discovery project ARCL, which develops accessible, reliable, and collaborative AI tools for law. She is also involved in other projects, such as a TA Swiss study on LLM use and changes in competencies in schools and workplaces.

Alongside her research, Aurelia is highly active in the academic community. She has served as program and area chair of the European Workshop for Algorithmic Fairness, local organizer of JURIX 2023, tutorial chair of ACM FAccT 2025, and serves as program chair for ACM FAccT 2027. She has also co-organized seminars and workshops on topics ranging from computational law and algorithmic fairness to privacy-friendly, trustworthy and socially responsible technologies. In addition, she co-founded the CS&Law Europe Network and the Future Society Hub, creating platforms that connect researchers, practitioners and early-career scholars working on law, computer science, and societal transformation. She serves as an MC of two COST Action networks, one on European Legal Design Action (ELDA, CA25133) and one on Human-centered Approaches to Responsible Privacy for and with AI (HARPA, CA25153).

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