We are delighted to announce that Louise Hooper of Garden Court Chambers has been listed in the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics list – 2025.
The Women in AI Ethics™ (WAIE) is a global initiative with a mission to increase recognition, representation, and empowerment of women in AI Ethics. Since 2018, WAIE has elevated the voices of experts from multidisciplinary backgrounds and showcased the role of diverse perspectives in responsible design and development of AI models and systems. WAIE publishes its list annually, view the “100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™” 2025 list here.
Louise Hooper is a human rights barrister at Garden Court Chambers. Her practice over the last 20 years has involved a focus on human rights, equality and dignity. She currently holds a research fellowship with 5Rights where she is examining how to assess systemic risk in children’s technology and is an expert to the Council of Europe Committee of Experts on Artificial Intelligence, Equality and Discrimination (GEC/ADI-AI). She is on the advisory committee of PROBabLE Futures. Louise provided guidance and feedback to JUSTICE for their report AI in our Justice System.
She previously worked with the Digital Futures Commission and 5Rights in the UK and UNICEF in the Balkans on child data and digital rights in education. She was an independent gender advisor to ITFLOWS, an European Union funded consortium developing migration prediction technology. She has also worked as an advisor assisting tech start-ups implement human rights risk assessments.
She has contributed Chapter 4: ‘Human Rights and AI’ in The Law of Artificial Intelligence, second edition, an essential practitioner’s reference text examining the application of current regulation and civil and criminal laws to AI and emerging areas of AI-specific regulation and proposed law reforms.