Rate My Professor Sylvie Delacroix

Professor Sylvie Delacroix holds the Inaugural Jeff Price Chair in Digital Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law, Faculty of Law, King's College London. She is the founding Director of the Centre for Data Futures and a visiting professor at Tohoku University. Previously, she served as Professor at the University of Birmingham and Reader at University College London. Delacroix is a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute and was appointed Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College in 2025, where she delivered a public lecture on uncertainty, value-alignment, and large language models.

Her research explores the intersection of law, ethics, and data-intensive technologies, focusing on ethical agency and habit, machine ethics, bottom-up data empowerment, and the social sustainability of data ecosystems for generative AI. She developed the data trusts framework with Neil Lawrence, leading to the first pilots in 2022 via the Data Trusts Initiative. Current projects address agency-enhancing uncertainty communication in LLMs for morally-loaded contexts and AI integration in professional judgment, particularly in healthcare and justice systems. Delacroix has secured funding from the Leverhulme Trust, Wellcome Trust, NHS, Omidyar Network, Mozilla Foundation, and Patrick J. McGovern Foundation. Key publications include the book Habitual Ethics? (Bloomsbury, 2022), which underwent a symposium in Jurisprudence (2024); 'Bottom-up data Trusts' (International Data Privacy Law, 2019); 'Professional Responsibility' (Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2021); 'Clinical competencies for using generative AI in patient care' (BMJ, 2025); 'Designing with Uncertainty: LLM Interfaces as Transitional Spaces for Democratic Revival' (Minds and Machines, 2025); and 'Beyond Quantification: Navigating Uncertainty in Professional AI Systems' (2025). She advises public bodies, including the Law Society of England and Wales on algorithms in justice.