Marie is a Venezuelan lawyer and doctoral researcher at Newcastle Law School. She holds a law degree from the Universidad Central de Venezuela and an LLM in Law and Emerging Technologies (Distinction) from Newcastle University. Before starting her PhD, she spent over ten years practising M&A, corporate law, and compliance at Baker McKenzie in Caracas, where The Legal 500 recognised her as a Leading Associate.
Research summary
My doctoral research examines how EU and UK regulatory frameworks respond to online gender-based harm, which I approach as a structural outcome of platform governance rather than isolated user misconduct.
Feminist Digital Sovereignty is the project’s central analytical and normative framework. Informed by Digital Constitutionalism and Decolonial Theory, it centres women’s digital agency and resistance rather than their vulnerability. Using a socio-legal and comparative methodology, the research examines how platform regulation in both jurisdictions conceptualises harm, allocates responsibility and governs risk, to develop a Feminist Risk-Regulation Model for Platform Governance.
