Ellen Lefley

Senior Lawyer

Ellen leads JUSTICE’s workstream on artificial intelligence, human rights and the law. She has also led JUSTICE’s interventions in the cases of IAB and U3, and is responsible for the ongoing implementation of JUSTICE’s family justice work and its digital exclusion work. She sits on several advisory boards for external projects on behalf of JUSTICE, including Probable Futures: probabilistic AI in policing and the wider criminal justice and law enforcement system (lead by Professor Marion Oswald, funded by Responsible AI UK, 2024-onwards).

Ellen is a qualified barrister and before JUSTICE she completed her pupillage and took tenancy in the North East, practising across family, civil, and criminal law. She has also previously worked as an associate lecturer at Northumbria University. Between practising as a barrister and joining JUSTICE, Ellen graduated top of her class in Transnational Legal Studies LLM at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, during which time she also worked as a research assistant to the University’s Transnational Law department. Ellen has been published by the EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy blog, the Times, the Family Law Journal, and has a forthcoming chapter on the right to a human judge in Cambridge University Press’s Research Handbook on Generative AI and the Law.