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Dr Matthijs Maas

Senior Research Fellow

Dr Matthijs Maas

Senior Research Fellow

Area of Expertise:

International law Institutional design Global governance Regime theory Technology law Arms control Military AI Legal automation

Matthijs is a Senior Research Fellow at LawAI and the author of Architectures of Global AI Governance (Oxford University Press, 2025). His work focuses on international institutional designs for AI governance regimes, the effect of AI on international law, and adaptive technology law. He is an associate fellow with the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (University of Cambridge). Matthijs received a PhD in Law from the University of Copenhagen, and has previous experience working in international security think tanks and in diplomacy.

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Selected recent publications

OUP book: Architectures of global AI governance

Future frontiers for research in law and AI

Cullen O'Keefe, Matthijs Maas, Janna Tay

Research Article

What should be internationalised in AI governance?

Claire Dennis, Stephen Clare, Rebecca Hawkins, Morgan Simpson, Eva Behrens, Gillian Diebold, Zaheed Kara et al.

Research Article

Beyond a piecemeal approach: prospects for a framework convention on AI

José Jaime Villalobos, Matthijs Maas

Research Article

The future of international scientific assessments of AI’s risks

Hadrien Pouget, Claire Dennis, Jon Bateman, Robert F. Trager, Renan Araujo, Haydn Belfield, Belinda Cleeland et al.