Roger Brownsword, who is a graduate of the London School of Economics, took up his first academic appointment in 1968. Currently, he has professorial positions in Law at King’s College London (where he was the founding Director of TELOS in 2007) and at Bournemouth University.

His many books and articles are known throughout the English-speaking world; and, he also has publications in Chinese, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese. His books include: Law, Technology and Society: Reimagining the Regulatory Environment (2019), Law 3.0: Rules, Regulation and Technology (2020), Rethinking Law, Regulation and Technology (2022), Technology, Governance and Respect for Law: Pictures at an Exhibition (2022), Law, Regulation and Governance in the Information Society (co-edited with Maurizio Borghi) (2023), Technology, Humans and Discontent with Law: The Quest for Better Governance (2024), The Future of Governance: A Radical Introduction to Law (2024), Law, Technology and Governance (2025), Law in a Technological Context (2025), The Cambridge Handbook of the Governance of Technology (co-edited with Larry DiMatteo) (2025), Research Handbook on Law, Governance and Bioethics (co-edited with Deryck Beyleveld and Marcus Duwell) and The Evolution of Law, Regulation and Technology: Towards a New Jurisprudence of Governance (October 2026).

In addition to serving as a specialist adviser to parliamentary committees, he has been a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics (2004-2010) and the UK National Screening Committee (2010-2022), he chaired the Ethics and Governance Council for UK Biobank (2011-2015), and he has been on working parties in the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society (most recently the Working Party on Machine Learning). He was a member of the Law panel for RAE2008 in the UK and for REF2014 in Hong Kong and he is the founding general editor (with Han Somsen) of Law, Innovation and Technology as well as being on the editorial board of international journals, including the Modern Law Review, the International Journal of Law and Information Technology, and the Journal of Law and the Biosciences.

Research interests

Law, Regulation and Technology; Legal Theory; Common Law; Law and Bioethics.

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