person
Mireille Hildebrandt
Brussels jurist and philosopher; 'algorithmic governance' theorist
Belgian jurist and philosopher whose work on 'smart technologies and the end of law' established foundational European framings for algorithmic governance.
Profile
expertise
Policy / meta
Specialises in AI policy, regulation, governance, philanthropy, or movement strategy. Reads the technical literature but does not produce it.
VUB professor. Law and computer-science expertise. AI law and constitutional theory.
recognition
Established
Reliable, recognised voice within their specific subfield. Cited and invited but not central to general AI discourse.
Recognised in academic-law and EU AI policy circles.
vintage
Deep-learning rise
Came up post-AlexNet. ImageNet, AlphaGo, transformer paper. DeepMind, Google Brain, FAIR establish the modern lab template.
AI law work matures in deep-learning era; EU AI Act inputs post-2018.
Hand-classified. See the board for the criteria and the full grid.
Strategy positions
Governance firstendorses
Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimesArgues that algorithmic governance displaces the structure of legal reasoning and that we need new jurisprudential tools.
Smart technologies are rewriting the fabric of law. Unless law re-asserts itself, governance by algorithm replaces governance by law.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.