Dr. Fabian Lütz (PhD in Law, University of Lausanne) is currently Guest Professor at uHasselt at teaches the course "Law and Artificial Intelligence: (Gender)Inequalities in the algorithmic age" in the 2026/27.
He is an expert on AI, Gender Equality and Non-discrimination and is currently a postdoctoral fellow (AI Regulation) at the Canada Research Chair for Artificial Intelligence at the University of Ottawa (Canada) and Associate research member at OBVIA (L’Observatoire international sur les impacts sociétaux de l’IA et du numérique).
He is an academic researching, writing and speaking regularly on questions concerning the regulation of AI, AI and law, gender equality and non-discrimination often with an interdisciplinary perspective (see website: www.algorithmic-discrimination.com ).
Dr. Lütz advised and served as expert on questions of gender equality, non-discrimination and AI on multiple occasions. Most recently he served as an expert on Gender and AI for the United Nations CEDAW Committee for the General Recommendation 40 and in the scientific advisory board for a government study on AI Recruitment and its impacts on gender equality. He has been invited to teach on AI, Gender and Discrimination at different universities across Europe.
He has more than 10 years of practical experience in administration and private practice. Before joining the universities of Hasselt and Ottawa, he was the Legal Officer for Equinet (European Network of Equality Bodies) on the Project "Equality-proofing AI systems: “Equality by Design, Deliberation and Oversight” and previously was a Legal Officer in the Gender Equality Unit of the European Commission (DG Justice), where he focused on gender equality, non-discrimination and Artificial Intelligence.
At the European Commission, Mr. Lütz worked on legal questions of gender equality and non-discrimination as well as AI and was among other things responsible for the Work- Life Balance Directive.
Before joining the European Commission, he worked for law firms in Germany and Belgium, mostly on technology and competition law and completed his German Legal Training (Referendariat) inter alia with an international law firm, at the European Commission (DG Competition) and the Court of Justice of the European Union.
He obtained his legal education in France (Licence and Maîtrise en droit (Paris, 2006, 2007), Germany (First State Exam, 2010; Second State Exam, 2013) and Belgium (LL.M. European Law and Economic Analysis, College of Europe, Bruges, 2011). He was awarded his PhD in Law at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) in 2025 on the topic of "Algorithmic Discrimination - A legal analysis of the concept of Algorithmic Discrimination in EU Gender Equality Law".