Dr. Roger Brownsword

Biography

Professor Roger Brownsword is a distinguished academic lawyer with a background from the London School of Economics (LSE). He has over 50 years of experience in legal academia, having served at the University of Sheffield and currently at King's College London. At King's, he is the founding Director of TELOS, established in 2007. His research contributions include a Leverhulme Research Fellowship from 2003 to 2004, and he has been an active member of the law panel for the UK Research Assessment Exercise in 2008 and the Hong Kong Research Assessment Exercise in 2014. Professor Brownsword has authored around 20 books and over 250 chapters and articles focused on Law, Technology, and Society, including 'Law, Technology and Society: Re-imagining the Regulatory Environment.' He is also the founding general editor of Law, Innovation and Technology and serves on the editorial boards of several significant journals including the Modern Law Review and the International Journal of Law and Information Technology. Additionally, he has chaired the UK's Biobank Ethics Governance Council from 2011 to 2015 and was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics from 2004 to 2010, contributing to working parties for the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society on topics like drug futures and neuroscience law. His extensive expertise places him at the intersection of law and technological ethics in contemporary issues.

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