Selected Publications
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selected journal articles
Lau, PL. Rewriting the Narrative of AI Bias: A Data Feminist Critique of Algorithmic Inequalities in Healthcare. Law, Technology and Humans, (June 2025). https://doi.org/10.5204/lthj.3845.
Lau, PL. Disrupting MMORPGs gaming: Exploring and renegotiating end-user license agreements in the Metaverse. International Journal of Commerce and Contracting, pp. 1 - 23. ISSN: 2055-5636 (May 2024)
Praštalo, B. and Lau, PL. (2024) 'Procurement of COVID-19 vaccines: Exploration from the negotiation and contracting perspective'. Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiation, 7 (1-2). pp. 27 - 32. ISSN: 2055-5636 (April 2024)
Gikay, A., Lau, PL., Sengul, C., Miron, A., and Malin, B. High-risk Artificial Intelligence Systems under the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act: Systemic Flaws and Practical Challenges. (November 2, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4621605 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4621605
Lau, PL. Evolved Eugenics and Reinforcement of “Othering”: Renewed Ethico-Legal Perspectives of Genome Editing in Reproduction. BioTech. 2023; 12(3):51. https://doi.org/10.3390/biotech12030051
Lau, PL. Data Misuse and Mission Creep: Patient Involvement & Data. Research Entry in the EuroGCT Project Tree Pathway, European Gene and Cell Therapy Project Consortium. Funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 Work Programme (2023).
Lau, PL. Addressing Cognitive Vulnerabilities Through Genome Editing: Techno-Legal Adaptations for Persons with Cognitive Disabilities. Chapter in an edited volume, Genome Editing, Health Innovations & Responsible Regulation. Eds: T. Minssen, A. Nordberg & S. Slokenberga. Brill | Nijhoff (2023)
Lau, PL., Nandy, M. and Chakraborty, S. Accelerating UN Sustainable Development Goals with AI-Driven Technologies: A Systematic Literature Review of Women’s Healthcare. Healthcare, 2023; 11 (3). pp. 1 - 16. ISSN: 2227-9032
Lau, PL. The Murky Waters of the Metaverse: Addressing Some Key Legal Concerns., Communications Law: The Journal of Computer, Media and Telecommunications Law. Vol. 27, No. 2 (June 2022) (Bloomsbury).
Lau, PL. An Ecosystem of Interconnectedness: Prioritising Key Legal Concerns in the Metaverse. The World Financial Review, 25 May 2022 (https://worldfinancialreview.com/an-ecosystem-of-interconnectedness-prioritising-key-legal-concerns-in-the-metaverse/)
Lau, PL. Addressing Cognitive Vulnerabilities Through Genome Editing: Techno-Legal Adaptations for Persons with Cognitive Disabilities. European Journal of Health Law (2022) 1–26. Special Issue on Genome Editing, Health Innovation, and Responsible Regulation (8 April 2022)
Mahalatchimy, A., Lau, PL., Flear, M. and Li, P. Framing and Legitimating EU Legal Regulation of Human Gene-Editing Technologies: Key Facets and Functions of an Imaginary. Journal of Law and the Biosciences, Vol. 8, Issue 2, (July – December 2021), 16 August 2021 (Oxford University Press).
Lau, PL. The Extension of Legal Personhood and Human Dignity in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Issue 46 Journal of Law and Bioethics [Revista de Bioética y Derecho], Bioethics and Law Observatory, UNESCO Chair on Bioethics, University of Barcelona, June 2019
Monograph / book
Pin Lean’s first monograph / book, derived from her extensive PhD research into a legal frameworks governing pre-implantation embryonic genetic interventions.
“The traditional focus on European bioethical discourses is reframed within a rich comparative ethical and legal context: the book analyzes a wide landscape of jurisdictions, including Malaysia, Thailand, and Australia, besides the United States and the United Kingdom. As the field of biomedical research itself becomes more and more global and new technological advances are reported increasingly from Asian countries, it is essential that the philosophical, ethical, and legal analysis of genetic research and interventions also develops a comparative on a global focus.”
BOOK CHAPTERS
The FemTech Jacquerie: Situating Efficient Stewardship in Women’s Health vis-à-vis the EU Artificial Intelligence Act. The Challenges of Artificial Intelligence for Law in Europe (eds. Varju, M. and Mezei, K). Springer International Publishing (2025)
A Pandemic of Power Relations: Bio-Constitutional Implications of Commodification & Endemic Inequalities in a De-Globalising Malaysia. Social and Political Deglobalisation: Covid 19, Conflict & Uncertainties in Malaysia. (eds, Khoo, Y.H, Ganeson, K. and Govindasamy A.R.) Springer Nature Singapore/Palgrave MacMillan (Feb 2024)
AI Gender Biases in Women’s Healthcare: Perspectives from the UK and the European Legal Space”. Special Issue of the Yearbook of Socio-Economic Constitutions, Law and the Governance of Artificial Intelligence. Springer International Publishing (2024)
ENCYCLOPAEDIA
The Rights of Patients. Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law (MPECCoL), Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and Rule of Law, Heidelberg, Germany (Oxford Constitutional Law series, Oxford University Press) (2020)
European Union health databases: Eudravigilance; Eudamed; Clinical Trials database; Eudra-GDP database. Encyclopaedia entries for the Oxford Encyclopaedia on European Union Health Law (2023). Funded by the Jean Monnet Network on Health Law and Policy
selected BLOG POSTS
Facial recognition in schools: here are the risks to children, The Conversation (27 October 2021)
Zombie apocalypse? How gene editing could be used as a weapon – and what to do about it, The Conversation (12 November 2021)
The Metaverse: Three legal issues we need to address, The Conversation (1 February 2022)
Your smart watch isn’t a medical device - but it is tracking all your health data, The Conversation (23 February 2024)
Fitness apps can reveal your location – updated laws would help plug this hole in our personal security, The Conversation (8 November 2024)
Forthcoming Manuscripts
Forthcoming Manuscripts
Journal Articles
Ðuković, M., Lau, PL., and Palmieri, S. Fragmented Futures: Comparative AI Regulation and the Case for Pluriversal Governance. International Journal of Law and Information Technology (OUP). (Due November 2025).
Charitsis, V. and Lau, PL. (Un)Caring Data: From Algorithmic Hyperindividualism to a Renewed Data Politics of Care. (Due January 2026).
Egg-freezing as a Corporate Perk: A Hedonic Feminist Critique of Workplace Control and Reproductive Autonomy. Special Issue Blueprints of Patriarchy: Feminist Critiques and Reimaginations of Law and Business Practice, Australian Feminist Law Journal (August 2025) (Peer review)
Book chapter in an Edited Volume
Genetics: Analysis, Therapy and Technology – Genetic testing or screening at a pre-birth stage. Chapter in an edited volume, The Rights of Children in Biology and Medicine. Uppsala University, Sweden. Research project funded by the Swedish Science Research Council, BRILL (2025/26) (In Press).
The EU AI Act and Data Protection in The EU AI Act. (ed. Raposo, V.L.) Springer International Publishing (2025/26) (In Press)