Amelie is a Postgraduate Research Student in Law at Brasenose College. Her research lies at the intersection of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence, using doctrinal methods as well as concepts drawn from law and economics, legal philosophy, and the behavioural sciences.
Her DPhil, supervised by Professor Horst Eidenmüller and Professor James Goudkamp, examines the duty of care in the use of AI and the impact of deploying high-performing AI on the standard of care in the tort of negligence. Her research is funded by the Oxford Law Faculty. Amelie is an Associate Editor of the Oxford Business Law Blog and co-convenes the Private Law Postgraduate Research Students Discussion Group as well as the Empirical Legal Studies Discussion Group.
As an undergraduate, Amelie read 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).