Jennifer Cobbe

Jennifer Cobbe is Assistant Professor in Law and Technology in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge, where she is Deputy Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law. She is also a member of the Microsoft Cloud Computing Research Centre and a Research Affiliate of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy.

Previousy Jennifer was a Senior Research Associate in the Computer Science Department at Cambridge as part of the Compliant & Accountable Systems research group.

She holds a PhD in Law and an LLM in Law and Governance from Queen’s University, Belfast. For her PhD, she studied the use of machine learning in commercial and state internet surveillance, and the impact of these related forms of surveillance on people and society. For the 2023-24 academic year, she is convening the LLM paper ‘Law, Technology & Society’, and will also lecture on the LLM paper ‘Personal Information Law’ as well as the undergraduate constitutional law paper.