Anna Katsoulaki

(she/her)

Research

• 'Cyber attacks in commercial shipping with potential hybrid threat effects: Consideration of legal and insurance issues' (2026) Journal of Business Law (forthcoming).

• Written evidence published by the UK Parliament on how can Government and financial regulators strike the right balance between seizing the opportunities of AI but at the same time protecting consumers and mitigating against any threats to financial stability (2025) AIFS0082.

• Writing my PhD on defining the legal and ethical framework for the use of AI on financial intelligence for combating money laundering. My research employs doctrinal legal analysis to examine regulatory frameworks, a comparative legal method to explore how different jurisdictions (EU, USA, UK) balance inovation and regulation, and socio-legal approach that situates these issues in their broader technological and policy contexts, with a strong emphasis on ethics and human / consumer rights.

Teaching

• LL.B teaching:

Tort

Law of the EU

Commercial Law

Healthcare, Ethics and Law (Abortion lectures)

Legal Foundations 24-25

• LL.M teaching:

International Investment Law (module lead) 23-24

Medicine, Law and Society (AI in Healthcare seminar) 24-25

Dissertation supervision

Biography

B.Sc in Shipping and Transport 

LL.B in Law (Cardiff)

LL.M in Maritime Law (Cardiff)

Ph.D (cand.) in Law (Cardiff)

Certificate in Councelling and Psychotherapy (Tavistock and Portman NHS)

Certificate in EU Law (EUI)

Certificate in Ethics of AI (LSE)

I have a professinal background spanning both the maritime industry and academia. For ten years, I worked as an in-house legal advisor in the maritime sector, specialising in commercial law, contract law, international trade law, marine insurance, carriage of goods by sea, ship sale and purchase, safety management & quality, and ADR.

In 2008, I entered academia and joined the City Law School, City University of London (now City St George's, University of London), where I spent a further decade as LL.M Programme Director and Lecturer in Law. During this time, I designed and led modules, including Medical Law & Bioethics; CILEX Tort; International Trade Law, and also taught on Tort, Contract Law, and Carriage of Goods by Sea. Additionally, I was Ph.D supervisor, led the Staff Research Seminars, and organised the annual Maritime Law Symposia, attracting up to 300 participants, with speakers from academia and industry.

In 2021, I was a researcher at the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats based in Finland, focusing on cybersecurity, hybrid threats, and maritime law, where I served as the lead presenter at conferences and roundtable discussions with EU and NATO delegates. Working alongside a team of cybersecurity and insurance specialists, we identified critical vulnerabilities in the maritime sector, impacting industry practice by promoting relevant recommendations. The working paper I authored was subsequently presented at the UN General Assembly's Ocean Security Dialogue in New York.

In 2022, I joined Cardiff University where I have taught across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules, led the Research Lecture Series, and currently serve as Year 1 LL.B Lead.

Overall, alongside my commercial law background, I examine contemporary developments in Cybersecurity and AI Ethics & Law, motivated by the challenges and opportunities emerging from current technological trends. I have also developed a particular interest in Bioethics and the Governance of Abortion, driven by a commitment to fostering social awareness and infomred public debate. 

I have extensive links with industry, securing collaborations between academia and industry, with organisations including Lloyd's Register, the Laskaridis Foundation and the Evgenidis Foundation. My external engagements have included invited talks and chairing events such as ELSA summer school 2015, City University International Postgraduate Research Conference 2014, European Conference on Shipping, Intermodalism & Ports 2011. 

My community and wider participation has included the positions of president of the parents association of primary school, parent governor and equality & diversity champion of secondary school, as well member of the school committee, the social care committee, and the environment working group of local authority.

Professional memberships

• The Society of Legal Scholars
• The Socio-Legal Studies Association

Committees and reviewing

• Reviewer for the Journal of Economic Criminology
• Editorial Board Member of the International Transport Law Review 2016

Supervisions

Past projects

Second supervisor for Dr. Sengnan Jia 2019 City Law School on Liens in Charterparties.