Biography
Professor Roger Brownsword, who is a graduate of the LSE, has been an academic lawyer for some 50 years, first at the University of Sheffield and then at King’s College London (where he was founding Director of TELOS in 2007). He was a Leverhulme Research Fellow in 2003-2004, a member of the Law panel for the UK RAE2008 and then for the Hong Kong RAE2014.He has published about 20 books, most recently Law, Technology and Society―Re-imagining the Regulatory Environment, and more than 250 chapters in books and articles. He is the founding general editor of Law, Innovation and Technology as well as being on the editorial board of the Modern Law Review, the International Journal of Law and Information Technology, and the Journal of Law and the Biosciences. From 2011-2015, he chaired UK Biobank’s Ethics and Governance Council; and he was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics (2004-2010). He has been a member of working parties in the Academy of Medical Sciences (on ‘drugs futures’) and the Royal Society (on neuroscience and the law, and on machine learning); and he has acted as a specialist adviser to parliamentary committees on stems cells and hybrid embryos.
Research Interests
Law, Regulation and Technology; Legal Theory; Common Law; Law and Bioethics.
For full details of my research visit https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/roger.brownsword.html
Selected Publications
- Contract Law: Themes for the Twenty-First Century (OUP 2006).
- 2. Rights, Regulation and the Technological Revolution (OUP, 2008).
- 3. Law, Technology and Society---Re-Imagining the Regulatory Environment (Routledge, 2019).
- 4. The Oxford Handbook on Law, Regulation and Technology (OUP, 2017) (co-edited with Eloise Scotford and Karen Yeung).
- 5. Human Dignity in Bioethics and Biolaw (OUP, 2001) (with Deryck Beyleveld).
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Brownsword, R., 25 Nov 2022, In: New Bioethics. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Brownsword, R., 2021, Ius Gentium. Springer Science and Business Media B.V., p. 125-148 24 p. (Ius Gentium; vol. 92). Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78475-1_8
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Brownsword, R., 1 Jan 2022, Ethics, Law and Society. Taylor and Francis Inc., p. 189-209 21 p. Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429292606-26
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Brownsword, R., 1 Jan 2022, Taylor and Francis Inc. 210 p. Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003315599
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Brownsword, R., 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: New Bioethics. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1080/20502877.2022.2149300
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Brownsword, R., 1 Jan 2022, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. 262 p. Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800886476
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Brownsword, R., 2022, In: Law, Innovation and Technology. 14, 1, p. 5-40 36 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1080/17579961.2022.2047517
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Brownsword, R., 1 Jan 2012, Human Health and Ecological Integrity: Ethics, Law and Human Rights. Taylor and Francis Ltd, p. xxi-xxiv Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript › peer-review
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Brownsword, R., 5 Dec 2016, Privacy in the Information Society: Volume II. Taylor and Francis Inc., p. 139-166 28 p. Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Brownsword, R. & Wale, J., 2021, In: BioLaw Journal. 2021, SpecialIssue, p. 129-153 25 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.15168/2284-4503-778