Yulia Razmetaeva

Yulia Razmetaeva is Uppsala University Researcher and Associate Professor at the Department of Human Rights and Legal Methodology at the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University. Her research interests include human rights issues in the digital age and issues related to artificial intelligence, law, ethics, and digital technologies. She is involved in several multidisciplinary research projects about values, law and AI.

Born 1983

PhD in law, 2009 (Topic of dissertation research: Human Rights as Fundamental Value of Civil Society)

Associate Professor in Theory and Philosophy of Law, 2020

Researcher, Department of Theology, Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society, Uppsala University, 2024 –

Associate Professor at the Human Rights and Legal Methodology Department at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, 2022 –

Head of the Center for Law, Ethics and Digital Technologies at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, 2021 –

Uppsala University Visiting Researcher, 2022 –2024

Fellow, Information Society Law Center (Department of Legal Sciences “Cesare Beccaria” of the University of Milan), 2023–2025

Visiting Fellow, Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace and Justice, 2022 (April – June)

2020 – 2022: Associate Professor of the Theory and Philosophy of Law Department of the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University. Courses taught: Theory of law, Human Rights, Law and Digital Technologies, Legal Ethics, Legal Systems of Today’s World
2021: Expert of project “Applying Human Rights to Digital Tech”, supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ukraine, in partnership of Kharkiv Regional Foundation “Public Alternative”, International Laboratory for Business and Human Rights and the Center for Law, Ethics and Digital Technologies at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University
2018 – 2020: Assistant of the Theory and Philosophy of Law Department of the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University. Courses taught: Theory of law, Human Rights, Business and Human rights, Gender Studies, Law and Digital Technologies
2019 (September – December): Truth Hounds regional monitor on attacks on civil society activities (project in cooperation with the Coalition for the Protection of Civil Society)
2017 – 2019: Expert of project “European Human Rights Law for Universities of Ukraine and Moldova”, HRLAW 573861-EPP-1-2016-1-EE-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP (2016-3090)
2019 (February – May): Trainer of the professional education certificate program “Lawyer as a human rights defender”
2018 (September – December): Trainer of the theoretical and practical course “Gender Studio for Future Lawyers”
2018: Expert of the project “Business and Human Rights: legal frameworks (curriculum for law students)” supported by the International Visegrad Fund and the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
2018 (February – May): Coordinator of Spring School “Law and Digital Technologies”, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University in collaboration with the Tallinn University of Technology and Mykolas Romeris University
2017: Expert of the project “Business Human Rights Responsibilities: Experience of the V4 and Baltic Countries for Ukraine” (ID 21720063), which was implemented by the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, and supported by the International Visegrad Fund and the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
2008 – 2018: Assistant of the Theory of State and Law Department of the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University. Courses taught: Theory of State and Law, Legal Deontology, Human Rights
2016 (February – July): Expert of research and education project “Tolerance in Post-Conflict Societies”, that was implemented by the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine and funded by the Robert Bosch Foundation.
2004 – 2005: Expert of International NGO “Legal Center “Legitime”

I am currently involved in several research projects supported by the Wallenberg Foundations and affiliated with The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanities and Society (WASP-HS).

AI Expectation and Reality: Transforming the Human Experience and Mind (2022-2023) and AI and Justice: Towards the Algorithmic Addiction (2023), Principal Investigator.

Also I am part of the working group on Artificial Intelligence, Democracy, and Human Dignity (PI: Anna-Sara Lind) and The Artificial Public Servant (PI: Sandra Friberg).

I am a Project Leader in European Fundamental Values in Digital Era (101085385 – EFVDE – ERASMUS-JMO-2022-HEI-TCH-RSCH), a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (2022-2025) co-funded by the European Union.

I was The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA) Scholarship Researcher in 2022 (July – January). My research was focused on responsible and ethical AI, human rights norms, the right to privacy law and the freedom of expression, and develop a phenomenological reading of the digital experience.

I was CEU Democracy Institute in Budapest Fellowship Researcher in 2022 (May – October). My research project The digital age implications, human rights, rule of law and democracy was aimed to determine the extent and depth of changes in three fundamental pillars, rule of law, democracy and human rights, caused by digital age, with particular attention to changes in trust.

I was involved in the following research and educational projects as an expert:
Applying Human Rights to Digital Tech (2020–2021), supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ukraine, in partnership of Kharkiv Regional Foundation “Public Alternative”, International Laboratory for Business and Human Rights and the Center for Law, Ethics and Digital Technologies at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University.
European Human Rights Law for Universities of Ukraine and Moldova, HRLAW 573861-EPP-1-2016-1-EE-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP (2016-3090).
Business and Human Rights: legal frameworks (curriculum for law students) (2018) supported by the International Visegrad Fund and the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Business Human Rights Responsibilities: Experience of the V4 and Baltic Countries for Ukraine” (ID 21720063, 2017), implemented by the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, and supported by the International Visegrad Fund and the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Tolerance in Post-Conflict Societies (2018), implemented by the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine and funded by the Robert Bosch Foundation.