Dr. Akanksha Bisoyi

Governing emerging technologies through the rule of law

I design legal and policy toolkits and interactive platforms that make governance legible and legitimate. My work asks: how emerging technologies can be designed, shaped and deployed to comply with the rule of law?

I am a Post-Doctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Professorship of Law, Innovation, and Legal Design at the Technical University of Munich, working with Prof. Dr. Christian Djeffal. Since April 2026, I hold the Friedrich Schiedel Fellowship at the TUM Think Tank and am an affiliated researcher at the TransforM Excellence Cluster.

Originally from Odisha, India, I trained in Mumbai and Geneva before completing my doctorate at TUM with a dissertation on blockchain and legitimacy, awarded magna cum laude. Between my Master’s and PhD, I co-founded Utsargam Development Initiatives in Odisha — a grassroots organisation focused on environmental and educational programmes for underprivileged children — which continues to shape how I think about law as a tool for development.