Rate My Professor Stergios Aidinlis

Dr Stergios Aidinlis is an Associate Professor in AI Law at Durham Law School, Durham University. He acts as the University's lead researcher in three multidisciplinary projects on law and artificial intelligence, funded by Innovate UK, Horizon Europe, and the British Academy. During 2025/26, he serves as an Innovation Fellow at the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum. Aidinlis's research specializations include AI law, data sharing governance, data protection law, regulation of digital public infrastructures, and law and technology education. He has provided thought leadership on issues such as the legal pitfalls of user agreements in wrongful death cases and cybersecurity programmes. Aidinlis supervises PhD students at Durham, including Abdulrahman Mohammad B Alotaibi, Apapen Panduang, Haoran Yang, James Craggs, and Leonie Stuessi.

Aidinlis completed his DPhil in Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford in 2021, with a thesis exploring the legal and non-legal regulation of data sharing in the UK public sector, focusing on government data used by independent researchers. He previously earned an MSt in Socio-Legal Research, an MJur specializing in human rights law and legal philosophy, both from the University of Oxford, and an LLM in Criminal Law and Criminology from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. His career includes serving as a Lecturer in Law and Inaugural Programme Director of the LLM/MSc in Law, Artificial Intelligence and New Technologies at Keele Law School from 2023, following a role as Researcher on Law and AI at the University of Oxford Faculty of Law. He has taught numerous subjects at the University of Oxford, Keele University, and Queen Mary University of London. Aidinlis is the author of two research monographs: Big Data for the Public Good (Hart Publishing, 2025) and Governing Digital Public Infrastructure: Innovation, Inclusion and Societal Progress in the Age of AI (Routledge, 2025). His work has been published in international and domestic peer-reviewed legal and interdisciplinary journals, contributing to discussions on responsible innovation and public interest governance in emerging technologies.