Jessica Uguccioni

Lead Lawyer Automated Vehicles Review at the Law Commission of England and Wales

Jessica is the lead lawyer for the Law Commissions’ automated vehicles review which published a report in January 2022 with recommendations to UK, Scottish and Welsh governments for a new regulatory framework to enable the safe deployment of automated vehicles on GB roads. The review began in 2018 at the request of the UK Government’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV), and Jessica and her team continue to work with CCAV on future mobility. Jessica’s work involves extensive public consultation in the UK and abroad. She is a member of the UNECE’s informal group of experts on automated driving (IGEAD) for working party 1. At the Commission Jessica has previously managed the criminal law team and worked on ride-hailing regulation and consumer protection reform. Before joining the civil service, Jessica was a lecturer in Law at Durham University and an associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York and London.