Post-Doctoral Researcher · Technical University of Munich
Dr. Akanksha Bisoyi
Governing emerging technologies through the rule of law
I am a Post-Doctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Technical University of Munich, working at the Professorship of Law, Innovation, and Legal Design with Prof. Dr. Christian Djeffal. Since April 2026, I hold the Friedrich Schiedel Fellowship at the TUM Think Tank.
My research asks how emerging technologies — blockchain, artificial intelligence, and the metaverse — can be designed to comply with the rule of law. I develop legal models and interactive platforms that make governance legible and legitimate.
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PUBLICATIONS
Monograph, book chapters, journal articles, and conference proceedings spanning AI, blockchain, and international law.
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RESEARCH PROJECTS
Funded projects at TUM, IEAI, and EU EIT, including a €20,000 TUM Think Tank Fellowship grant.
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COURSES TAUGHT
From AI and Data Law to Legal Methods, across multiple semesters at TUM’s School of Social Sciences & Technology
Research Focus
Emergent technologies + the rule of law + legal design
My research sits at the intersection of these three domains. I examine how artificial intelligence, blockchain, and the metaverse challenge existing legal categories, evidence frameworks, and governance architectures — and how rule-of-law principles (legality, legitimacy, accountability, access to justice) can serve as both an analytical lens and a design standard for technology regulation. Legal design is the practice that holds this together: translating legal complexity into accessible, human-centred instruments and platforms that make governance legible to those it governs.
Design Methods
Translational design
Moving research findings from academic contexts into applied legal instruments and policy tools — producing outputs that are simultaneously rigorous and usable by practitioners, regulators, and communities.
Co-design methodologies
Working alongside legal practitioners, policymakers, technologists, and affected communities to develop frameworks that reflect lived realities. Co-design treats those subject to law as active participants in its production, not passive recipients.
Participatory action research
Grounding legal research in the perspectives of the people it concerns — through stakeholder consultation, community engagement, and collaborative knowledge production. Applied particularly in legal design for development and governance in the Global South.
Critical making
A practice-based methodology combining hands-on making with critical reflection. Prototyping legal tools and platforms as a mode of inquiry — interrogating what law does and can do through the act of building it, rather than only theorising it.
Selected Recent Publications
| 2025 | MONOGRAPHBlockchain and Legitimacy – The Rule of Law by Design Law, Governance and Technology Series · Springer Cham |
| 2026 | BOOK CHAPTERThe EU AI Act and Human Rights by Design Obligations European Yearbook on Human Rights 2025 · Brill | Nijhoff |
| 2026 | BOOK CHAPTERDesigning ‘legitimate’ AI-driven Evidence Mechanism from the Rule of Law perspective AI and Legal Evidence: The Indian Policy and Perspective · Routledge |
| 2025 | CONFERENCEVisual Truths and Factual Realities – The Impact of Computational Photography on Legal Evidence ESIL Interest Group on International Law and Technology · Opinio Juris |
Dr. jur. Akanksha Bisoyi · Post-Doctoral Researcher & Friedrich Schiedel Fellow
Technical University of Munich · Professorship of Law, Innovation and Legal Design
Akanksha Bisoyi 