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Articles
Mind the Gap: Securing Algorithmic Explainability for Credit Decisions Beyond the UK GDPR.
Computer Law & Security Review, 60, 106247 (2025) [DOI ↗︎]
Holli Sargeant.
Detecting Legal Citations in United Kingdom Court Judgments.
Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP),
26798–26824 (2025). [DOI ↗︎]
Holli Sargeant, Andreas Östling, Måns Magnusson.
🏆 Awarded Senior Area Chair Highlight (Top 2.5% of accepted papers, seminal contribution).
Formalising Anti-Discrimination Law in Automated Decision Systems.
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FAccT),
181-194 (2025). [DOI ↗︎]
Holli Sargeant, Måns Magnusson.
Classifying Hate: Legal and Ethical Evaluations of ML-Assisted Hate Crime Classification and Estimation in Sweden.
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FAccT), 195-208 (2025). [DOI ↗︎]
Holli Sargeant, Hannes Waldetoft, Måns Magnusson.
Researching Legal AI: The Cambridge Law Corpus and Predicting Decisions of the UK Employment Tribunal.
Stockholm Intellectual Property Law Review, 2, 33–36 (2024). [DOI ↗︎]
Holli Sargeant, Felix Steffek.
Topic Classification of Case Law Using a Large Language Model and a New Taxonomy for UK Law: AI Insights into Summary Judgment.
Artificial Intelligence and Law (2025). [DOI ↗︎]
Holli Sargeant, Ahmed Izzidien, Felix Steffek.
Context-Specific Certification of AI Systems: A Pilot in the Financial Industry.
AI and Ethics, 5, 4223-4240 (2025). [DOI ↗︎]
Kendall Brogle*, Emma Kallina*, Holli Sargeant*, Var Shankar, Adrian Weller, Ashley Casovan, Umang Bhatt.
Explainable Fairness in Regulatory Algorithmic Auditing.
West Virginia Law Review, 127(1), 79-133 (2024). [PDF ↗︎]
Cathy O’Neil, Holli Sargeant, Jacob Appel.
Green Infrastructure in Developing Economies: A Unique Target for Risk Reduction and Financial Investment.
Climate Policy, 25(5), 792-805 (2024). [DOI ↗︎]
Tate Lavitt*, Holli Sargeant*.
When Should Algorithms Resign? A Proposal for AI Governance.
Computer, 57(10), 99-103 (2024). [DOI ↗︎]
Umang Bhatt*, Holli Sargeant*.
The Cambridge Law Corpus: A Dataset for Legal AI Research.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 36, 41355-41385 (2023). [DOI ↗︎] [Data ↗︎]
Andreas Östling, Holli Sargeant, Helena Xie, Ludwig Bull, Alex Terenin, Leif Jonsson, Måns Magnusson, Felix Steffek.
Unleashing the Power of Algorithms in Antitrust Enforcement: Navigating the Boundaries of Bias and Opportunity.
CPI Antitrust Chronicle, 1, 3-8 (2023). [DOI ↗︎]
Holli Sargeant, Teodora Groza.
Algorithmic Decision-Making in Financial Services: Economic and Normative Outcomes in Consumer Credit.
AI and Ethics, 3(4), 1295-1311 (2023). [DOI ↗︎]
Holli Sargeant.
🏆 Awarded Best Doctoral Paper, Society of Legal Scholars Conference.
Transparency, Governance and Regulation of Algorithmic Tools Deployed in the Criminal Justice System: a UK Case Study.
Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 880-889 (2022). [DOI ↗︎]
Miri Zilka*, Holli Sargeant*, Adrian Weller.
Book Chapters
Algorithms in the Justice System: Current Practices, Legal and Ethical Challenges.
In: The Law of Artificial Intelligence, Sweet & Maxwell Ltd (2024). [ISBN ↗︎] [PDF ↗︎]
Sophia Adams-Bhatti, Holli Sargeant.
Policy Reports
Supporting Businesses Through Better Justice Systems: A Focus on SMEs and Entrepreneurship.
OECD Public Governance Policy Papers, No. 79 (2025). [DOI ↗︎]
Felix Steffek and Holli Sargeant.
AI in our Justice System.
JUSTICE UK (2025). [PDF ↗︎]
Contributor.
Child Rights in a Digital World: A Report on the Legal Process of Implementing UNCRC General Comment No. 25.
Cambridge Pro Bono Project for 5Rights Foundation (2022). [PDF ↗︎]
Holli Sargeant, Rebecca Xu, Dushyant Kishan Kaul, Eleanor Bird, Isabelle St-Hilaire.
Human Rights and Technology.
Australian Human Rights Commission (2021). [ISBN ↗︎]
Sophie Farthing, John Howell, Katerina Lecchi, Zoe Paleologos, Phoebe Saintilan, Edward Santow, Holli Sargeant.
Spotlight on Artificial Intelligence and Freedom of Expression.
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (2021). [ISBN ↗︎]
Eliska Pirkova, Holli Sargeant, Jonathan Haas, Vladan Joler.
Using Artificial Intelligence to Make Decisions: Addressing the Problem of Algorithmic Bias.
Australian Human Rights Commission (2020). [ISBN ↗︎]
Finn Lattimore, Simon O’Callaghan, Zoe Paleologos, Alistair Reid, Edward Santow, Holli Sargeant, Andrew Thomsen.
The Impact of Technologies on Teaching of Ethics and Professional Responsibility.
Centre for Professional Legal Education (2020). [PDF ↗︎]
Holli Sargeant.
Conference Workshop Papers
Bias in Legal Data for Generative AI.
GenLaw Workshop at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) (2024). [PDF ↗︎]
Holli Sargeant and Måns Magnusson.
Modulating Language Model Experiences through Frictions.
Behavioral Machine Learning Workshop at NeurIPS (2024). [DOI ↗︎]
Katherine M. Collins, Valerie Chen, Ilia Sucholutsky, Hannah Rose Kirk, Malak Sadek, Holli Sargeant, Ameet Talwalkar, Adrian Weller, Umang Bhatt.
A Rights-Based Approach to Online Economic Exploitation of Children.
Technologies of Deception Conference, Yale Law School (2022). [SSRN ↗︎]
Holli Sargeant.
What Goes on in Court? Identifying Contract-Related Topics Decided by UK Courts (1709–2021) Using ML.
Cambridge Language Sciences Symposium (2022). [DOI ↗︎]
Ahmed Izzidien, Holli Sargeant, and Felix Steffek.
* Indicates equal contribution.