Bilde av Nawaz, Samar Abbas
Bilde av Nawaz, Samar Abbas
Researcher Department of Computer Science samar.a.nawaz@uit.no Tromsø

Samar Abbas Nawaz


Job description

I have worked professionally in the field of law for nearly a decade, serving as a practitioner, in-house counsel, and academic researcher. My research interest particularly lies in the regulatory challenges of emerging technologies. At UiT, I'm working for the project called 'On the technological (im)possibility to enforce data protection laws'. It looks into the effectiveness of the current technological state of art to ensure lifelong enforcement of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)'s requirements on right to erasure, purpose limitation, and automated decision-making. Prior to this, I worked as a senior researcher at Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) where I also completed my doctorate on 'Safe integration of civil drones: Law, self-operation and infrastructure'. There, I was engaged in different projects on drones, border technologies, and AI; researching the sociotechnical aspect of their safety regulation. 

More about my professional activities: https://linkedin.com/in/samarnawaz


  • Samar Abbas Nawaz :
    Towards regulating human oversight: challenges for EU drone law
    Information & communications technology law 03. August 2025 DOI
  • Samar Abbas Nawaz :
    Law and Infrastructure: Reliability, Automation Transition, and Irregularities of “U-Space”
    Regulation & Governance 2025 DOI
  • Samar Abbas Nawaz :
    Regulating Autonomy in Civilian Drones: Towards a Spectral Approach
    Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems 2024 DOI
  • Samar Abbas Nawaz :
    Conflicting visions around technology integration: A look at recent EU drone policies
    Contemporary European Politics 2023 DOI
  • Samar Abbas Nawaz :
    Air Blue (Pvt) Ltd v. Judge Consumer Court (West) Islamabad & Another
    Air & Space Law 2023 DOI
  • Samar Abbas Nawaz :
    Drone Law and Policy Global Development, Risks, Regulation and Insurance
    Journal of Peace Research 2022 FULLTEKST

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    Publications outside Cristin

    Nawaz, Samar Abbas. 2025. Safe integration of civil drones: Law, self-operation & infrastructure. PhD thesis, Department of Criminology & Sociology of Law (IKRS), University of Oslo (UiO), Oslo. (Available at https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/119734)

    Martins, Bruno Oliveira & Nawaz, Samar Abbas. 2025. Engaging Civil Society Organizations in Border Management Technologies. Policy Brief. TRANSCEND Project. (https://transcend-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/OeRK_Policy-Brief-BM.pdf)

    Nawaz, Samar Abbas. 2022. “The Proposed EU AI Liability Rules: Ease or Burden?” European Law Blog, November. https://doi.org/10.21428/9885764c.d12d3ba2.