Thesis title
'Automated decision-making by the state' [provisional]
Supervisors
Professor Tom Poole and Dr Orla Lynskey
Research interests
Public and administrative law, human rights, internet and technology law, data protection, free speech and privacy
Alexandra is a PhD candidate in law at the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ and a research fellow at the Public Law Project. She is the recipient of an ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ PhD studentship for the duration of her studies. Alexandra has an LLB with honours from Victoria University of Wellington and an LLM with honours from Columbia Law School in New York City where she studied as a Fulbright Scholar. She has worked as a judge's clerk at the Auckland High Court and a barrister in Auckland, New Zealand. After her masters she worked in two public interest NGOs in New York as a Columbia Public Interest Fellow.
Prior to her doctorate she was employed fulltime as a Research Fellow at the Public Law Project where her research has spanned many areas of public law including delegated legislation, anti-discrimination law and public law and technology. In 2023 she gave oral evidence to the House of Commons Public Bill Committee on the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, in particular on the proposed changes to Article 22, the prohibition on solely automated decision-making. She has frequently submitted written evidence on automated decision-making including to the House of Commons' Science, Innovation and Technology Committee and the Department for Work and Pensions' Public Accounts Committee.
She has written for the UK Constitutional Law Association Blog, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Higher Education Blog, the Digital Constitutionalist, Free Movement, the Law Society Gazette and Prospect Magazine. Her work with the Public Law Project on frontline automated decision-making was recently.
Her doctoral research examines existing doctrines of English administrative law and the extent to which they can be applied without modification to contemporary forms of frontline automated decision-making in the administrative state.
Book chapter
A. Sinclair ‘Legislating for seismic events: An examination of the role of Delegated Legislation’ in Seshauna Wheatle and Elizabeth O’Loughlin (eds) (BUP, 2023)
Journal Articles
J. Tomlinson and A. Sinclair, (2020) Modern Law Review 652
A. Sinclair ‘Statutory protections for contractors’ NZLJ (2015)
Blogposts and other outlets
A. Sinclair , Digital Constitutionalist (17 October 2023)
A. Sinclair , ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Higher Education Blog (August 30 2023)
A. Sinclair Law Society Gazette (20 April 2023)
A. Sinclair , Law Society Gazette (13 January 2023)
J. Tomlinson, L. Graham and A. Sinclair, , U.K. Const. L. Blog (22nd Feb. 2021)
A. Sinclair and J. Tomlinson , Prospect Magazine (8 December 2020)
A. Sinclair and J. Tomlinson (Public Law Project, 2020)
A. Sinclair and J. Tomlinson, , U.K. Const. L. Blog (9th Jan. 2020)
A. Sinclair and J. Tomlinson, , Prospect Magazine, (11 October 2019)
A. Sinclair and J. Tomlinson, , U.K. Const. L. Blog (4th Sept. 2019)
A. Sinclair ' Free Movement (29 August 2019)
A. Sinclair and J. Tomlinson, ', U.K. Const. L. Blog (25th Mar. 2019)
A. Sinclair and J. Tomlinson, ', U.K. Const. L. Blog (7th Feb. 2019)