Michalina Marcia
Michalina Marcia holds a PhD in law, which she earned at the Chair of Constitutional Law (Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics, University of Wroclaw). In April 2025, she defended her PhD thesis on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in criminal proceedings in the context of defence rights.
She has participated in several national and international research projects. In 2024, she contributed to the project 2023-IT-NET4FEU – New European Tools for the Financial Interests of the EU, funded by the European Commission and led by Serena Quattrocolo. Her work involved analysing existing Polish legal instruments, such as freezing orders, used to prevent financial offences. Since July 2024, she has been a stipend holder on the National Science Centre-funded project The Right Not to Incriminate Oneself in the Digital Era: Can New Challenges Help Us Find Common Foundations? (no. 0201/0261/24), led by Wojciech Jasiński. Her research in this project explores the potential impact of AI solutions on the privilege against self-incrimination.
Currently, she leads her own National Science Centre project, AI and Defence Rights – Friends or Foes? (project no. 2024/53/N/HS5/01933). This project investigates how AI can be applied in criminal proceedings, whether such applications align with defence rights, and how specific measures can be introduced to ensure proportionality—extending the standards laid out in the AI Act.
She is a member of the Virtual Criminal Justice Network and has been a part of GRAI (Governmental Working Group on AI). During her PhD studies she took part in a number of courses and summer schools, including Arqus Summer School on Integrating Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education in Padova, the EDELNet+ PhD Seminar on Empirical Methods of Legal Research funded by the DAAD_IVAC Programme, and the Summer School of Summer Institute in Computational Social Science, where she gained foundational knowledge in R and signal detection theory. She has presented at numerous national and international conferences, including the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL), and participated in events such as the 2024 Wolters Kluwer Legal Hackathon, where she worked on a group project regarding developing an app aiding travellers within the EU acquiring practical information about local legal provisions, differences between regulations in key sectors such as travel insurance, necessary documentation or transport law, making their journey safer.
Her most recent publications include:
- Marcia M., AI Surveillance and Human Rights – The Perlis and Promises of the AI Act, in: European Yearbook on Human Rights; eds. P. Czech, L. Heschl, K. Lukas, M. Nowak, G. Oberleitner, Brill 2025, 38–65.
- Marcia M., Artificial Intelligence – Based Surveillance, Predictive Analytics and the Right to Information: In Pursuit of Ethical Security, in: Legal Challenges of Disruptive Technologies; eds. Roman Bieda, Anna Blechová, Efrain Fandiño López, Rosalba Potenzano, Nomos, 2025, 55-74.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7872-8507
Her research interests include the defence rights, access to a lawyer, the impact of emerging technologies on human rights, AI and cybersecurity.
Outside of her academic work, Michalina is a fan of The Lord of the Rings, figure skating, opera, and horse riding.
