Dr Maria Tzanou
School of Law
Senior Lecturer in Law
Postgraduate Research (PGR) Director


+44 114 222 6811
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School of Law
CLG04
Bartolome虂 House
Winter Street
葫芦影业
S3 7ND
- Profile
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Dr Maria Tzanou鈥檚 research focuses on European constitutional and human rights law, privacy, data protection, surveillance, the regulation of new and emerging technologies and the inequalities of data privacy law and how these affect vulnerable groups. She is the author of The Fundamental Right to Data Protection. Normative Value in the Context of Counter-Terrorism Surveillance (Hart, 2017) and the editor of Personal Data Protection and Legal Developments in the European Union (IGI Global, 2020) and Health Data Privacy under the GDPR. Big Data Challenges and Regulatory Responses (Routledge, 2021).
She is currently leading an inter-disciplinary research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust on 鈥楩emTech surveillance: Gendered digital harms and regulatory approaches鈥. The project explores FemTech鈥檚 techno-management of women鈥檚 intimate lives by combining both doctrinal research and empirical analysis and aims to develop an egalitarian data privacy law theory.
She acts as permanent scientific advisor to the Greek Ministry of Justice on data protection issues. She co-convenes the UK Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Cyberlaw Section and is an Associate Editor of European Data Protection Law Review.
Before joining 葫芦影业, she held positions at the University of Keele and Edge Hill University. In 2018, Maria was awarded the Routledge/ Association of Law Teachers (ALT) 鈥楾eaching Law with Technology Prize鈥 for successfully devising and implementing a research-led approach for teaching students the interaction between law and new technologies.
- Qualifications
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鈥 PCLTHE- Keele University
鈥 PhD- European University Institute
鈥 LLM (Comparative, European and International Laws)- European University Institute
鈥 MA (Advanced Public Law) - Universit茅 de Bordeaux IV and University of Athens
鈥 LLM (European Union Law) 鈥 University of Cambridge
鈥 LLB- University of Athens
- Research interests
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- Data Protection Law
- Privacy Law
- European Human Rights Law
- AI and Emerging Technologies Regulation
- Surveillance
Maria is happy to supervise PhD research in the following areas: privacy and data protection, big data, AI and human rights, surveillance, regulation of emerging technologies.
- Publications
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Books
Edited books
Journal articles
Chapters
Conference proceedings papers
Working papers
Dictionary/encyclopaedia entries
Other
- Research group
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Director of 葫芦影业 Centre for International and European Law (SCIEL)
- Grants
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Title/Description Awarding Body People Involved Dates Amounts 'FemTech surveillance: Gendered digital harms and regulatory approaches' Leverhulme Trust Dr Maria Tzanou (P-I), Prof Tsachi Keren-Paz and Dr Marco Ortolani (Co-Is) 2022-2024 拢160,090 鈥楾he ethical and legal challenges of the sharing of health data in social media鈥 Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Dr Maria Tzanou 2017- 2018 鈥楤rexit and the Law School鈥 Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Dr Maria Tzanou 2017
- Teaching activities
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UG Modules:
- Advanced EU Law
- Professional activities and memberships
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鈥 Associate Editor- European Data Protection Law
鈥 Associate Editor- IEEE Technology and Society Magazine (2021- 2022)
鈥 UK Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Cyberlaw Section Co-convenor
鈥 Member of the European Research Network within The South EU Google Data Governance Chair
鈥 Member of the Society of Legal Scholars
鈥 Member of the Athens Bar Association (GR)- resigned
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