Dr Maria Tzanou
School of Law
Senior Lecturer in Law
Postgraduate Research (PGR) Director


+44 114 222 6811
Full contact details
School of Law
CLG04
Bartolome House
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND
- Profile
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Dr Maria Tzanous research focuses on European constitutional and human rights law, privacy, data protection, surveillance, the regulation of new and emerging technologies and the inequalities of data privacy law and how these affect vulnerable groups. She is the author of The Fundamental Right to Data Protection. Normative Value in the Context of Counter-Terrorism Surveillance (Hart, 2017) and the editor of Personal Data Protection and Legal Developments in the European Union (IGI Global, 2020) and Health Data Privacy under the GDPR. Big Data Challenges and Regulatory Responses (Routledge, 2021).
She is currently leading an inter-disciplinary research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust on FemTech surveillance: Gendered digital harms and regulatory approaches. The project explores FemTechs techno-management of womens intimate lives by combining both doctrinal research and empirical analysis and aims to develop an egalitarian data privacy law theory.
She acts as permanent scientific advisor to the Greek Ministry of Justice on data protection issues. She co-convenes the UK Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Cyberlaw Section and is an Associate Editor of European Data Protection Law Review.
Before joining Sheffield, she held positions at the University of Keele and Edge Hill University. In 2018, Maria was awarded the Routledge/ Association of Law Teachers (ALT) Teaching Law with Technology Prize for successfully devising and implementing a research-led approach for teaching students the interaction between law and new technologies.
- Qualifications
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PCLTHE- Keele University
PhD- European University Institute
LLM (Comparative, European and International Laws)- European University Institute
MA (Advanced Public Law) - Universit辿 de Bordeaux IV and University of Athens
LLM (European Union Law) University of Cambridge
LLB- University of Athens
- Research interests
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- Data Protection Law
- Privacy Law
- European Human Rights Law
- AI and Emerging Technologies Regulation
- Surveillance
Maria is happy to supervise PhD research in the following areas: privacy and data protection, big data, AI and human rights, surveillance, regulation of emerging technologies.
- Publications
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Books
Edited books
Journal articles
Chapters
Conference proceedings papers
Reports
Working papers
Dictionary/encyclopaedia entries
Other
- Research group
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Director of Sheffield Centre for International and European Law (SCIEL)
- Grants
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Title/Description Awarding Body People Involved Dates Amounts 'FemTech surveillance: Gendered digital harms and regulatory approaches' Leverhulme Trust Dr Maria Tzanou (P-I), Prof Tsachi Keren-Paz and Dr Marco Ortolani (Co-Is) 2022-2024 贈160,090 The ethical and legal challenges of the sharing of health data in social media Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Dr Maria Tzanou 2017- 2018 Brexit and the Law School Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Dr Maria Tzanou 2017
- Teaching activities
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UG Modules:
- Advanced EU Law
- Professional activities and memberships
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Associate Editor- European Data Protection Law
Associate Editor- IEEE Technology and Society Magazine (2021- 2022)
UK Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Cyberlaw Section Co-convenor
Member of the European Research Network within The South EU Google Data Governance Chair
Member of the Society of Legal Scholars
Member of the Athens Bar Association (GR)- resigned
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