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Md Abdul Malek

Joint District Judge, Bangladesh

Studied Law & Tech at UCLA Law

Shaping the Future of Law, AI, & Justice Institutions

My work intersects artificial intelligence, law, and policy and aims to advance digital justice and institutional integrity in Bangladesh and the global majority.

"AI systems are not neutral. They reflect the values, biases, and decisions of those who design and deploy them. As judges, we must understand these systems before we rely on them in courts."

Md Abdul Malek

Joint District Judge, Bangladesh

Areas of Interest

Expertise That Matters

AI Ethics, Law, Governance

AI Liability

Transparency

Digital Justice

Digital Rights

Social Media Laws

Data Privacy

Contestable AI

Responsible AI

Conferences & Networks

Global Engagements

Apr 2024 • Stanford, CA

CodeX FutureLaw 2024

Stanford Law School

Stanford Law School, Stanford University. Engaging on the intersection of computational law and future legal frameworks.

Apr 2024 • Stanford, CA

LLMs x Law Hackathon

Stanford Law School

Stanford Law School, Stanford University. Developing practical AI solutions for legal challenges.

Apr 2024 • Berkeley, CA

AI & Evidence Symposium

Berkeley Center for Law & Tech

UC Berkeley. Analysis of AI applications in civil litigation evidence.

March 2024 • Los Angeles, California

Copyright Symposium

UCLA & ASU McCarthy Institute

UCLA and ASU McCarthy Institute. Discussing IP implications of generative AI.

Nov 2023 • Washington DC

Athens Roundtable on AI & the Rule of Law

The Future Society at The George Washington University

The Future Society. High-level dialogue on AI and the Rule of Law.

Sep 2023 • Boston, MA

We Robot Conference

Boston University & MIT Media Lab

Held at Boston University & Boston Dynamics. Focused on robotics, law, and policy.

Research & Writing

Publications

Digital divide in justice: strategies for inclusive justice innovation

JTA digital divide and justice tech report 2026. Justice Technology Association With Maya Markovich & Kalina L. Oak).

2026

Privacy & XR

In M. Karanicolas et al. (Eds.), Governing XR (pp. 46–65). UCLA Institute for Technology, Law and Policy (2024) (with Gabriela, Walter, & Mahmut).

2024

Criminal courts' artificial intelligence: the way it reinforces bias and discrimination

AI & Ethics, 2, 233–245 (2022) (Springer Nature).

2022

Bigger is always not better, less is more, sometimes: data minimization in the context of Big Data

European Journal of Privacy Law & Technology. 2021 (1) 212-223

2021

Vice and virtue of the Basic Structure Doctrine in the Indian Sub-continent's constitutional practices

Commonwealth Law Bulletin 43(1), 48–74 (2017) (Routledge).

2017

Rights of the elderly: an emerging human rights discourse

International Journal of Law and Management 59 (2), 284-302 (2017) (Emerald Insights) (with MA Razzak).

2017

Transparency in predictive algorithms: a judicial perspective

ADVANCE, Sage preprint. (2021).

2021