Katie Schwarzmann

Katie is a human rights and public law solicitor, specialising in bringing strategic judicial review challenges at the intersection of emerging technologies and migrants’ rights. She recently brought the first case in the UK to challenge the Home Office’s policy of electronic monitoring migrants by way of GPS tags, and the first case to mention the use of automated decision-making in the UK immigration system in open court.

Katie studied History and Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, where she was awarded a First along with the Rowley Mainhood Prize, Arthur Tindal Hart Prize, Owen Scholarship and Abdul Aziz Prize. She then completed a Graduate Diploma in Law and Accelerated Legal Practice Course, receiving Distinctions in both. Katie is currently studying part-time for a Masters in International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford. Katie is also a current recipient of a Churchill Fellowship which saw her travel to Canada and the US in the summer of 2024 to conduct a comparative analysis on the uses and regulation of automated decision-making in the US, UK and Canadian immigration systems.

Katie trained at the corporate law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and the human rights NGO, Liberty. She has also since worked in the actions against the police & civil liberties department at Hickman & Rose and the public law & human rights department at Wilson Solicitors.