Professor of Law at King’s College London
Roger Brownsword, who is a graduate of the London School of Economics, has been an academic lawyer for more than 40 years. Currently, he is Professor of Law at King’s College London, where he was the founding director of TELOS (a research centre that focuses on technology, ethics, law and society), an honorary professor at the University of Sheffield, and a visiting professor at Singapore Management University.
He has published more than a dozen books, including (in the area of
regulation and technology) Rights, Regulation and the Technological
Revolution (OUP, 2008), Regulating Technologies (Hart, 2008) (co-edited
with Karen Yeung), and Law and the Technologies of the Twenty-First
Century (co-authored with Morag Goodwin) (CUP, 2012); and he has more
than 200 papers in edited collections and law reviews. He is currently
co-editing the Cambridge Handbook on Human Dignity (which is in press)
and just starting work on co-editing the Oxford Handbook on Law,
Regulation and Technology.
He is the founding general editor of the leading European journal, Law,
Innovation and Technology as well as being on the editorial board or
committee of journals that include the Modern Law Review, the
International Journal of Law and Information Technology, and the
(upcoming) Journal of Law and the Biosciences.
Professor Brownsword has acted as a specialist adviser to parliamentary
committees dealing with stems cells and hybrid embryos. From 2004-2010,
he was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics; and, currently,
he is Chair of the Ethics and Governance Council of UK Biobank. He was a
member of the Law panel for the UK RAE2008 and he is a member of the
international Law panel for the national research assessment being
conducted in Hong Kong in 2014.