Biography
Claire Boine is Co-Chair in Technology Law and Digital Policy at the European University Institute’s School of Transnational Governance.
Professor Boine’s research focuses on the governance of general-purpose AI systems, with an emphasis on emerging risks, manipulation, and digital fairness. She works at the intersection of frontier AI models and durable legal and political theory, drawing on science and technology studies (STS) to connect technical developments with institutional and societal change. Methodologically, she conducts mixed‑methods empirical research, using qualitative approaches such as semi‑structured interviews, focus groups, and content analysis alongside quantitative tools including survey design, advanced statistical analysis, and natural language processing. In scholarship published before the public release of ChatGPT, she showed that systems like GPT‑3 fell outside the scope of the then‑current draft of the EU AI Act, helping to frame later debates on how to regulate general‑purpose AI. Her work bridges North American and European approaches to AI regulation, connecting academic scholarship with concrete policy design.
Before joining EUI, Professor Boine was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Washington University School of Law, where she taught Advanced Privacy Law and created a course on AI law; a Research Scholar at Boston University, where she taught Strategies for Public Health Advocacy; and a Research Fellow at Harvard University. She has advised several governments on AI law and policy, including a consultation for Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) on the capabilities, limitations, and risks of general‑purpose AI, and she served on the OECD expert group on Policies for AI (ONE PAI).
Professor Boine holds a PhD in law from the University of Ottawa, a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University, a law degree (M2) from Nantes University, a Master’s in political science, a bachelor’s degree in history, and a graduate degree in conflict analysis. Her interdisciplinary background, including work at the intersection of law, public policy, and science and technology studies (STS), informs a structural approach to questions of power, fairness, and manipulation in digital systems.