Md Abdul Malek

Joint District Judge | UCLA Law LLM Graduate.

AI Ethics & Law Enthusiast

The Future of Law, AI, & Emerging Tech

Research at the intersection of artificial intelligence, data privacy, and digital justice—advocating for equitable and responsible technology in courts and communities worldwide.

Areas of Interest

Expertise That Matters

AI Ethics & Law

Ethical frameworks for AI deployment, algorithmic accountability, and explainability in judicial AI systems.

Data Privacy

Data protection, GDPR compliance, privacy in generative AI, and data minimization principles.

Social Media Laws

Platform liability, content moderation, digital rights, and online speech regulations.

XR & Laws

Privacy and governance frameworks for extended reality, metaverse regulations, and immersive tech policy.

Digital Justice

Bridging the digital divide in justice, A2J technology, and equitable access to legal resources.

Legal Tech & A2J

Legal innovation, AI applications in courts, and technology for access to justice initiatives.

Conferences & Networks

Global Engagements

2025

CodeX FutureLaw Conference

Stanford Law School

Stanford, CA

Legal Technology Innovation

2024

LLMs x Law Hackathon

Stanford Law School

Stanford, CA

AI & Legal Innovation

2024

AI and Evidence in Civil Litigation

UC Berkeley Center for Law & Tech

Berkeley, CA

AI in Litigation

2024

Copyright Symposium

UCLA & ASU McCarthy Institute

Los Angeles, CA

Intellectual Property & AI

2024

Athens Roundtable on AI and Rule of Law

The Future Society

Washington, DC

AI Governance

2024

We Robot Conference & Workshop

Boston University & MIT Media Lab

Boston, MA

Robotics & AI Law

2023

Asia AI Innovation

The Economist

Singapore

AI Innovation in Asia

2024

A2J Network Working Group

Stanford Legal Design Lab

Stanford, CA

Access to Justice

2024

Privacy Research Group

NYU Information Law Institute

New York, NY

Privacy & Data Protection

Research & Writing

Publications

Scholarly work advancing the discourse on AI ethics, data privacy, and the transformation of legal systems.

Criminal courts' artificial intelligence: the way it reinforces bias and discrimination

AI & Ethics (Springer Nature)2022

Privacy & XR

Governing XR, UCLA Institute for Technology, Law and Policy2024

Bigger is always not better, less is more: data minimization in Big Data

European Journal of Privacy Law & Technology2021

Vice and virtue of the Basic Structure Doctrine in constitutional practices

Commonwealth Law Bulletin (Routledge)2017

Transparency in predictive algorithms: a judicial perspective

Advance, Sage Preprint2021

Quantification in criminal courts: codified justice or algorithmic unfairness?

Towards Data Science2020