Holli Sargeant is a legal scholar and a Research Fellow of St John's College, University of Cambridge, whose work addresses AI law, accountability, and governance (Source: joh.cam.ac.uk; scholar.google.com).
Research
Sargeant describes her research as focused on the intersection of law and artificial intelligence, seeking frameworks for responsible AI governance and examining AI's role in legal research and access to justice (Source: hollisargeant.github.io). Her listed interests span law, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and ethics.
Her empirical work includes the Cambridge Law Corpus and the prediction of UK Employment Tribunal decisions, reported in the Stockholm Intellectual Property Law Review (Source: hollisargeant.github.io). That strand — building legal datasets and testing models against adjudicated outcomes — approaches AI from inside legal practice, distinct from the regulatory-design work she contributes to on Prompt Governance.
Work
Sargeant is a co-author of "Prompt Governance? On Governing Technologies Governed by Natural Language" (FAccT'26), written with Anna Neumann and Jatinder Singh, a systematic study of whether system-level instructions can function as reliable governance levers. She supplies the legal side of a collaboration whose question is whether a natural-language instruction can carry regulatory weight. See Prompt Governance, Legal Services — AI Deployment.
Relationships
- related: Anna Neumann, Jatinder Singh — co-authors
- related: Prompt Governance — the concept the paper develops
- authored: Prompt Governance? On Governing Technologies Governed by Natural Language
- related: Legal Services — AI Deployment — her legal-AI and access-to-justice work