Katie Szilagyi

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Dr. Katie Szilagyi (@katieszi) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Law. Katie studies the intersection of technology law and legal theory with artificial intelligence, tracing the impacts of predictive analytics and algorithmic decision-making on the organizing force of the Rule of Law. Her innovative, transdisciplinary research brings together her educational backgrounds in both engineering and law, as well as her experience in legal practice, applying foundational legal concepts like property, autonomy, consent, and privacy to emerging technological settings. She has published and presented on the transformative impacts of blockchain technology on the legal landscape, as well as the international humanitarian law implications of autonomous weapons systems on the battlefield. Newer research projects include smart agriculture; social robotics; science fiction and the law; ethical frameworks for automated mobility; and conceptualizing the impacts of generative AI on the law.

Dr. Szilagyi completed her Bachelor of Science in Biosystems Engineering at the University of Manitoba in 2008. She received her JD from the University of Ottawa in 2012, with joint specializations in Law and Technology and International Law. She then clerked at the Federal Court of Appeal in Ottawa and practiced commercial litigation at a large national firm in Toronto. She earned her LLM, specializing in Law and Technology, at Tel Aviv University in 2017. She returned to the University of Ottawa for her PhD studies in law, supported by a SSHRC doctoral fellowship. She completed her PhD in 2022, for which she was awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal in the Humanities. She is also on LinkedIn.