Roger Brownsword

Professor Roger Brownsword

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  • rbrownsword at bournemouth dot ac dot uk
  • Professor In Law
  • Executive Business Centre EB401, Bournemouth University, 89 Holdenhurst Road, Bournemouth, BH8 8EB
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Biography

As a researcher, writing about contracts and the common law, legal theory, bioethics, and the regulation of technology, Professor Brownsword's work is known around the world. Although most of his work has been published in the United Kingdom, he has also published papers in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Singapore, and the United States.

For more than twenty years, Professor Brownsword's has collaborated with Professor Deryck Beyleveld in developing a distinctive morally-driven approach to law. The foundations of this approach are set out in Law as a Moral Judgment (1986) and it is taken forward in Human Dignity in Bioethics and Biolaw (2001) and Consent in the Law (2007).

In the area of Contracts, Professor Brownsword has published a new edition of his overview of contracts, Contract Law: Themes for the Twenty-First Century (2006, OUP) and he is working on a Chitty supplementary volume on exclusion clauses.

In the area of regulation and technology, he published the following two books in 2008; Rights, Regulation and the Technological Revolution and Regulating Technologies (the latter co-edited with Professor Karen Yeung).

Journal Articles

  • Bartsch, S., Behn, O., Benlian, A., Brownsword, R., Bücker, S., Düwell, M., Formánek, N., Jungtäubl, M., Leyer, M., Richter, A., Schmidt, J.H., Will-Zocholl, M., 2025. Governance of High-Risk AI Systems in Healthcare and Credit Scoring. Business and Information Systems Engineering, 67 (4), 563-581.
  • Júnior, L.P., Vilaça, M., Karasinski, M., Brownsword, R., 2025. On Technological Innovation, Inequality, Regulations and Governance: A Interview with Roger Brownsword. Revista De Filosofia Aurora, 37.
  • Brownsword, R., 2025. Five conversations and new directions for law and technology. Law Innovation and Technology, 17 (1), 37-57.
  • Brownsword, R., 2024. Law, Technology, and Our Governance Dilemma. Laws, 13 (3).
  • Brownsword, R., 2024. Legal Metrics: Getting the Measure of Good Governance. Italian Law Journal, 10 (1-2).
  • Brownsword, R., Joynson, C., 2023. Good governance and the development of an ethical framework for the UK National Screening Committee. Medical Law International, 23 (3), 271-296.
  • Brownsword, R., 2023. Between Rocks and Hard Places: Good Governance in Ethically Divided Communities. New Bioethics, 29 (3), 247-264.
  • Brownsword, R., 2022. Law, authority, and respect: three waves of technological disruption. Law Innovation and Technology, 14 (1), 5-40.
  • Brownsword, R., 2022. Foreword. Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence Global Perspectives on Law and Ethics, xxi-xxiv.
  • Brownsword, R., 2021. Migrants, State Responsibilities, and Human Dignity. Ratio Juris, 34 (1), 6-28.
  • Brownsword, R., Somsen, H., 2021. Law, innovation and technology: fast forward to 2021. Law Innovation and Technology, 13 (1), 1-28.
  • Brownsword, R., Wale, J., 2021. In ordinary times, in extraordinary times: Consent, newborn screening, genetics and pandemics. Biolaw Journal, 2021 (SpecialIssue), 129-153.
  • Brownsword, R., Wale, J., 2021. In ordinary times, in extraordinary times: Consent, newborn screening, genetics and pandemics. BioLaw Journal, 15 (Special Issue 1).
  • Brownsword, R., 2020. Law, technology, and society: In a state of delicate tension. Notizie Di Politeia, 36 (137), 26-58.
  • Brownsword, R., Harel, A., 2019. Law, liberty and technology: Criminal justice in the context of smart machines. International Journal of Law in Context, 15 (2), 107-125.
  • Beyleveld, D., Brownsword, R., 2019. Punitive and preventive justice in an era of profiling, smart prediction and practical preclusion: Three key questions. International Journal of Law in Context, 15 (2), 198-218.
  • Brownsword, R., Wale, J., 2019. Correction to: The Right to Know and the Right Not to Know Revisited (Asian Bioethics Review, (2017), 9, (3-18), 10.1007/s41649-017-0012-1). Asian Bioethics Review, 11 (1), 123.
  • Brownsword, R., 2019. Regulatory Fitness: Fintech, Funny Money, and Smart Contracts. European Business Organization Law Review, 20 (1), 5-27.
  • Brownsword, R., Wale, J., 2018. Testing times ahead: Non-invasive prenatal testing and the kind of community we want to be. Modern Law Review, 81 (4), 646-672.
  • Gibson, L.M., Littlejohns, T.J., Adamska, L., Garratt, S., Doherty, N., Wardlaw, J.M., Maskell, G., Parker, M., Brownsword, R., Matthews, P.M., Collins, R., Allen, N.E., Sellors, J., Sudlow, C.L.M., Hofmann, B., Jha, S., Bunnik, E.M., 2018. Impact of detecting potentially serious incidental findings during multi-modal imaging [version 3; referees: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]. Wellcome Open Research, 2.
  • Brownsword, R., Wale, J., 2017. The Right to Know and the Right Not to Know Revisited: Part One. Asian Bioethics Review, 9 (1-2).
  • Brownsword, R., Wale, J., 2017. The right to know and the right not to know revisited: Part One. Asian Bioethics Review, 9 (1-2), 3-18.
  • Brownsword, R., 2017. From erewhon to alphaGo: For the sake of human dignity, should we destroy the machines? Law Innovation and Technology, 9 (1), 117-153.
  • Brownsword, R., Wale, J., 2016. The Development of Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing: Some Legal and Ethical Questions. Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik (Annual Review of Law and Ethics), Band 24 (2016), 31-48.
  • Vayena, E., Brownsword, R., Edwards, S.J., Greshake, B., Kahn, J.P., Ladher, N., Montgomery, J., O'Connor, D., O'Neill, O., Richards, M.P., Rid, A., Sheehan, M., Wicks, P., Tasioulas, J., 2016. Research led by participants: A new social contract for a new kind of research. Journal of Medical Ethics, 42 (4), 216-219.
  • Brownsword, R., 2016. Technological management and the rule of law. Law Innovation and Technology, 8 (1), 100-140.
  • Brownsword, R., 2016. New genetic tests, new research findings: Do patients and participants have a right to know – and do they have a right not to know? Law Innovation and Technology, 8 (2), 247-267.
  • Brownsword, R., 2015. In the year 2061: From law to technological management. Law Innovation and Technology, 7 (1), 1-51.
  • Brownsword, R., 2014. Regulating patient safety: Is it time for a technological response? Law Innovation and Technology, 6 (1), 1-29.
  • Brownsword, R., 2013. Public health interventions: Liberal limits and stewardship responsibilities. Public Health Ethics, 6 (3), 235-240.
  • Brownsword, R., 2013. Dignity - Its History and Meaning. Social and Legal Studies, 22 (2), 271-274.
  • Brownsword, R., 2012. Human dignity, biolaw, and the basis of moral community. Journal De Medecine Legale Droit Medical, 55 (3-4), 149-160.
  • Brownsword, R., Lewis, P., Richardson, G., 2012. Prospective Legal Immunity and Assistance With Dying : Submission to the Commission on Assisted Dying. King's Law Journal, 23 (2), 181-193.
  • Brownsword, R., 2012. Whither the Law and the Law Books? From Prescription to Possibility. Journal of Law and Society, 39 (2), 296-308.
  • Brownsword, R., 2012. Networks as Connected Contracts. The Modern Law Review, 75 (3), 7.
  • Brownsword, R., 2012. Emerging Technologies, Extreme Uncertainty, and Principle of Rational Precautionary Reasoning. Law, Innovation and Technology, 4 (1), 35-65.
  • Brownsword, R., 2012. Five Principles for the Regulation of Human Enhancement. Asian Biotechnology and Development Review, 4 (4), 344-354.
  • Brownsword, R., 2012. Guidelines for our Genomic Futures. Rivista Medica, 20, 179-188.
  • Brownsword, R., 2012. Human Dignity in Bioethics and Law. Medical Law Review, 20 (2), 246-253.
  • Brownsword, R., 2012. The shaping of our on-line worlds: getting the regulatory environment right. International Journal of Information and Technology, 20 (4), 249-272.
  • Brownsword, R., 2011. Why I wrote ... rights, regulation, and the technological revolution. The Journal of Clinical Ethics, 6 (4), 207-210.
  • Brownsword, R., Brownsword, R., 2011. Human Dignity and Nanotechnologies: Two Frames, Many Ethics. Jahbuch fur Recht und Ethik, 19, 429-439.
  • Brownsword, R., 2011. Lost in Translation: Legality, Regulatory Margins, and Technological Management. Berkeley Technology Law Journal, 26 (3), 1321-1365.
  • Brownsword, R., 2011. Responsible Regulation: Prudence, Precaution and Stewardship. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 62 (5), 573-597.
  • Brownsword, R., 2010. Human dignity, biolaw, and the basis of moral community. Journal International De Bioethique, 21 (4), 19-40.
  • Brownsword, R., Earnshaw, J.J., 2010. The ethics of screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm in men. Journal of Medical Ethics, 36 (12), 827-830.
  • Brownsword, R., 2010. Framers and Problematisers: Getting to Grips with Global Governance. Transnational Legal Theory, 1 (2), 287-301.
  • Brownsword, R., 2010. Brain Science: In the Regulatory Spotlight. Science in Parliament, 67 (2), 18-19.
  • Brownsword, R., 2010. Embryonic Stem Cell Patents: European Law and Ethics. The Modern Law Review, 73 (3), 510-514.
  • Brownsword, R., 2010. Human dignity, biolaw, and the basis of moral community. Journal International de Bioethique, 21 (4), 21.
  • Brownsword, R., 2010. Regulating the Life Sciences, Pluralism, and the Limits of Deliberative Democracy. Singapore Academy of Law Journal, 22 (2), 801-832.
  • Brownsword, R., 2010. Tax Exemption, Moral Reservation, ad Regulatory Incentivisation. European Journal of Risk Regulation, 3, 219-225.
  • Brownsword, R., 2009. Nanoethics: Old wine, new bottles? Journal of Consumer Policy: consumer issues in law, economics and behavioral sciences, 32 (4), 355-379.
  • Brownsword, R., Somsen, H., 2009. Law, Innovation and Technology: Before We Fast Forward - A Forum For Debate. Law, Innovation and Technology, 1 (1), 1-73.
  • Brownsword, R., 2009. Regulating Human Enhancement: Things Can Only Get Better? Law, Innovation and Technology, 1 (1), 125-152.
  • Brownsword, R., Baldwin, T., Schmidt, H., 2009. Stewardship, Paternalism and public health: Further thoughts. Public Health Ethics, 2 (1), 113-116.
  • Brownsword, R., 2009. Friends, Romans and Countrymen: Is There a Universal Right to Identity? Law, Innovation and Technology, 1 (2), 223-249.
  • Brownsword, R., 2009. Regulating Nanotechnologies: A Matter of Some Uncertainty. Politeia, XXV (94), 11-28.
  • Brownsword, R., 2009. Regulating brain imaging: challenge and opportunity. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 3, 50.
  • Brownsword, R., 2009. The Society of Enhanced Legal Scholars, Seven of Nine, and Some Regulatory Challenges for Future Generations. Amicus Curiae, 78, 8-13.
  • Brownsword, R., Lewis, D., 2008. General Editor’s Preface. Global Governance and the Quest for Justice Volume III Civil Society, 3, iv-vii.
  • Brownsword, R., Cermak, A., Chaisson, R., Clayman, M., Corr, P., DeCherney, S., Grady, C., Higgs, E., Kumar, N., Lie, R., Merritt, M., Molyneux, M., Petros, B., Richardson, H., Sugarman, J., 2008. The ancillary-care obligations of medical researchers working in developing countries Cer. PL o S Medicine, 5 (5), 709-713.
  • Brownsword, R., 2008. Regulating nanomedicine - The smallest of our concerns? NanoEthics: ethics for technologies that converge at the nanoscale, 2 (1), 73-86.
  • Brownsword, R., 2007. The ancillary-care responsibilities of researchers: reasonable but not great expectations. J Law Med Ethics, 35 (4), 679-513.
  • Brownsword, R., 2006. Public health, private right, and the common law. Public Health, 120 Suppl, 42-50.
  • Brownsword, R., 2006. Public health, private right: Constitution and common law. Medical Law International, 7 (3), 201-218.
  • Brownsword, R., Lewis, D., 2006. Preface. Global Governance and the Quest for Justice Volume II Corporate Governance, vii-x.
  • Brownsword, R., Lewis, D., 2006. Preface. Global Governance and the Quest for Justice Volume I International and Regional Organisations, I, vii-x.
  • Caulfield, T., Brownsword, R., 2006. Human dignity: a guide to policy making in the biotechnology era? Nat Rev Genet, 7 (1), 72-76.
  • Brownsword, R., Lewis, D., 2005. Preface. Global Governance and the Quest for Justice Volume IV Human Rights, 4, v-vii.
  • Brownsword, R., 2005. Code, Control, and Choice: Why East is East and West is West. Legal Studies, 21, 1-21.
  • Brownsword, R., 2005. Stem Cells and Cloning: Where the Regulatory Consensus Fails. New England Law Review, 39, 535-571.
  • Brownsword, R., 2004. Reproductive Opportunities and Regulatory Challenges. Modern Law Review, 67 (2), 304-321.
  • Brownsword, R., 2004. Genes and Insurance. Kings College Law Journal, 15 (1), 175-181.
  • Brownsword, R., 2004. Regulating Human Genetics: New Dilemmas For A New Millennium. Medical Law Review, 12 (1), 14-39.
  • Brownsword, R., 2004. The Cult of Consent: Fixation and Fallacy. Kings College Law Journal, 15 (2), 223-252.
  • Brownsword, R., 2004. The Enforceability of Promises in European Contract Law. Edited by James Gordley. The European Legacy: toward new paradigms, 9, 381.
  • Brownsword, R., 2003. An Interest in Human Dignity as the Basis for Genomic Torts. Washburn Law Journal, 42 (3), 413-488.
  • Brownsword, R., 2003. Causes for Concern and Causes of Action: A Comment on "Pushing Drugs". Washburn Law Journal, 42 (Part 3), 601-614.
  • Brownsword, R., 2003. Bioethics Today, Bioethics Tomorrow: Stem Cell Research and the "Dignitarian Alliance". Notre Dame Journal of Law, 17 (Part 1), 15-52.
  • Brownsword, R., 2003. Causes for concern and causes of action: a comment on "Pushing drugs". Washburn Law J, 42 (3), 601-614.
  • Brownsword, R., 2003. Bioethics today, bioethics tomorrow: stem cell research and the "dignitarian alliance". Notre Dame J Law Ethics Public Policy, 17 (1), 15-51.
  • Brownsword, R., 2002. Stem cells, Superman, and the report of the Select Committee. Mod Law Rev, 65 (4), 568-587.
  • Beyleveld, D., Brownsword, R., Wallace, S., 2002. Clinical ethics committees: clinician support or crisis management? HEC Forum, 14 (1), 13-25.
  • Brownsword, R., 2002. Stem Cells, Superman, and the Report of the Select Committee. The Modern Law Review, 65 (Part 4), 568-587.
  • Brownsword, R., Beyleveld, D., Wallace, S., 2002. Clinical Ethics Committees: Clinician Support or Crisis Management? Healthcare Ethics Committee Forum, 14 (Part 1), 13-25.
  • Brownsword, R., 2002. Ethics Committees: Public Interest, Private Interest, and the Ethics of Partnership. Biomedical and Health Research - Commission of the European Communities then IOS Press, 51, 135-150.
  • Brownsword, R., Wallace, S., 2002. Independent Ethics Committees in the United Kingdom. Biomedical and Health Research- Commission of the European Communities then Ios Press, 51, 111-124.
  • Brownsword, R., Beyleveld, D., 2002. Is Patent Law Part of the E.C. Legal Order? A Critical Commentary on the Interpretation of Article 6(1) of Directive 98/44/EC in Case C-377/98. Intellectual Property Quarterly, 4, 97-110.
  • Brownsword, R., 2002. REGULATING STEM CELL RESEARCH. Science and Public Affairs, 12-13.
  • Brownsword, R., Howells, G., 2001. Europe's E-Commerce Directive - A Too Hasty Legislative Rush to Judgment?? JOURNAL OF LAW AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, 11 (Part 1), 77-88.
  • Brownsword, R., 2001. Individualism, Cooperativism and an Ethic for European Contract Law. Modern Law Review, 64 (Part 4), 628-642.
  • Brownsword, R., Howells, G., 2000. CONSUMER PROTECTION ON THE INTERNET: THE IMPACT OF THE INFORMATION SOCIETY ON LAW. Contemporary Issues in Law, 4 (Part 4), 301-323.
  • Brownsword, R., McHale, J., 2000. My Body, My Body Parts, My Property? Health Care Analysis, 8 (Part 2), 87-99.
  • Beyleveld, D., Brownsword, R., 2000. My body, my body parts, my property? Health Care Anal, 8 (2), 87-99.
  • Brownsword, R., Howells, G., 1999. When surfers start to shop: Internet commerce and contract law. Legal Studies, 19 (3), 287-315.
  • Brownsword, R., 1999. Ethics in legal education: High roads and low roads, mazes and motorways. Law Teacher, 33 (3), 269-283.
  • Beyleveld, D., Brownsword, R., 1998. Human dignity, human rights, and human genetics. Mod Law Rev, 61 (5), 661-680.
  • Brownsword, R., 1996. Where are all the law schools going? Law Teacher, 30 (1), 1-27.
  • Adams, J.N., Brownsword, R., 1993. Privity of Contract — That Pestilential Nuisance. Modern Law Review, 56 (5), 722-732.
  • Beyleveld, D., Brownsword, R., 1991. Privity, Transitivity and Rationality. Modern Law Review, 54 (1), 48-71.
  • Adams, J.N., Brownsword, R., 1991. More in Expectation than Hope: The Blackpool Airport Case. Modern Law Review, 54 (2), 281-287.
  • Adams, J.N., Brownsword, R., 1990. Privity and the concept of a network contract. Legal Studies, 10 (1), 12-28.
  • Beyleveld, D., Brownsword, R., 1989. Normative positivism: The mirage of the middle-way. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 9 (4), 463-512.
  • Adams, J.N., Brownsword, R., 1988. Law Reform, Law‐Jobs, and Law Commission No. 160. Modern Law Review, 51 (4), 481-492.
  • Adams, J.N., Brownsword, R., 1987. The ideologies of contract. Legal Studies, 7 (2), 205-223.
  • Beyleveld, D., Brownsword, R., 1987. PRACTICE MADE PERFECT? Modern Law Review, 50 (5), 662-672.
  • Brownsword, R., 1987. ETHICS AND LEGAL EDUCATION: TICKS, CROSSES, AND QUESTION‐MARKS. Modern Law Review, 50 (4), 529-535.
  • Beyleveld, D., Brownsword, R., 1985. The practical difference between natural-law theory and legal positivism. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 5 (1), 1-32.
  • Bottoms, A.E., Brownsword, R., 1982. The dangerousness debate after the floud report. British Journal of Criminology, 22 (3), 229-254.
  • Brownsword, R., Harden, I.J., 1981. Rights and the Red Book. Legal Studies, 1 (1), 94-99.

Books

Chapters

  • Brownsword, R., 2025. Lawyers in Cryptoland. Routledge Handbook of Nft Law. 356-371.
  • Brownsword, R., 2025. Treating ai as a legal person: Simply a means to a regulatory end? Future of the Person. 191-210.
  • Brownsword, R., 2025. Regulating AI in Insurance: An ‘All-Risks’ Approach. Insurability of Emerging Risks Law Theory and Practice. 81-102.
  • Brownsword, R., 2024. Governance, AI and consumers: Looking forward. Cambridge Handbook of AI and Consumer Law Comparative Perspectives. 289-306.
  • Brownsword, R., 2023. Law, regulation, and technology: the bigger picture of good governance. Research Handbook on Law and Technology. 12-27.
  • Davis, H., 2023. Obtaining Information from an overmighty subject: the Parliamentary Experience. In: Borghi, M., Brownsword, R., eds. Law, Regulation and Governance in the Information Society Informational Rights and Informational Wrongs. Routledge.
  • Cronin, A., 2023. Corporate regulation by information: democratic deficit and overcoming the dangers of the new regulatory paradigm. In: Borghi, M., Brownsword, R., eds. Law, Regulation and Governance in the Information Society, Informational Rights and Informational Wrongs. Abingdon, Oxon, England and New York, US: Routledge, 67-86.
  • Brownsword, R., 2023. AI and Fundamental Rights: The People, the Conversations, and the Governance Challenges. Law Governance and Technology Series. 335-355.
  • Brownsword, R., 2023. Private Law, Technology and Governance. Data and Private Law. 19-34.
  • Mendis, D., 2022. Informational Rights: Puzzles of Co-Production in 3D Printing. In: Borghi, M., Brownsword, R., eds. Law, Regulation and Governance in the Information Society: Informational Rights and Informational Wrongs. Routledge.
  • Brownsword, R., 2022. Human Rights - What Hope? Human Dignity - What Scope? Ethics Law and Society. 189-209.
  • Brownsword, R., 2021. Axiological Pluralism: Conflict in the Hospital, Resolution in the Courts. Ius Gentium. 125-148.
  • Brownsword, R., 2021. Political Disruption, Technological Disruption and the Future of EU Private Law. New Directions in European Private Law. 7-28.
  • Brownsword, R., 2021. Regulating Automated Healthcare and Research Technologies: First Do No Harm (to the Commons). Cambridge Handbook of Health Research Regulation. 266-274.
  • Brownsword, R., 2020. Artificial Intelligence and Legal Singularity: The Thin End of the Wedge, the Thick End of the Wedge, and the Rule of Law. Is Law Computable Critical Perspectives on Law and Artificial Intelligence. 135-160.
  • Brownsword, R., 2019. Legal regulation of technology: Supporting innovation managing risk and respecting values. Science Technology and Society New Perspectives and Directions. 109-137.
  • Brownsword, R., 2019. Smart transactional technologies, legal disruption, and the case of network contracts. Cambridge Handbook of Smart Contracts Blockchain Technology and Digital Platforms. 313-333.
  • Brownsword, R., 2019. Transformative technologies and responsive legal scholarship. 3D Printing and Beyond Intellectual Property and Regulation. 137-157.
  • Brownsword, R., 2019. Teaching the law of contract in a world of new transactional technologies. Reimagining Contract Law Pedagogy A New Agenda for Teaching. 112-128.
  • Brownsword, R., 2019. Law schools for lawyers, citizens, and people. Law School Global Issues Local Questions. 26-40.
  • Brownsword, R., Wale, J., 2018. Regulating in the Global Village: The Case of Non-Invasive Pre-Natal Tests. In: Symeonidou-Kastanidou, E., Kipouridou, K., Milapidou, M., Vasileiou, M., eds. Medicine, Law and the Internet. Greece: Nomiki Bibliothiki S. A., XV-378.
  • Brownsword, R., 2017. Law, Liberty and Technology. The Oxford Handbook of Law, Regulation and Technology. Oxford University Press.
  • Mendis, D., Nielsen, J., Nicol, D., Li, P., 2017. The Co-Existence of Copyright and Patent Laws to Protect Innovation – A Case Study of 3D Printing in UK and Australian Law. In: Brownsword, R., Scotford, E., Yeung, K., eds. Oxford Handbook of Law, Regulation and Technology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Brownsword, R., 2017. Field, Frame and Focus: Methodological Issues in the New Legal World. Rethinking Legal Scholarship A Transatlantic Dialogue. Cambridge University Press.
  • Brownsword, R., 2017. Stem cells, superman, and the report of the select committee. Genetics and Gene Therapy. 513-532.
  • Brownsword, R., 2017. Law as a Moral Judgment, the Domain of Jurisprudence, and Technological Management. Ethical Rationalism and the Law. 109-130.
  • Brownsword, R., 2016. 'Consent in Data Protection Law: Privacy, Fair Processing and Confidentiality', in Serge Gutwirth (ed.), Reinventing Data Protection?, Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 83-110. Privacy in the Information Society Volume II. 139-166.
  • Beyleveld, D., Brownsword, R., 2016. Research participants and the right to be informed. Inspiring A Medico Legal Revolution Essays in Honour of Sheila Mclean. 173-188.
  • Brownsword, R., Wale, J., 2016. Compromise medicalisation. Pioneering Healthcare Law Essays in Honour of Margaret Brazier. 292-304.
  • Brownsword, R., 2016. Cloning, zoning and the harm principle. First do no Harm Law Ethics and Healthcare. 527-542.
  • Brownsword, R., 2016. Big Biobanks: Three Major Governance Challenges and Some Mini-constitutional Responses. Research Ethics Forum. 175-196.
  • Brownsword, R., 2016. Property in Human Tissue: Triangulating the Issue. Altruism Reconsidered Exploring New Approaches to Property in Human Tissue. 93-104.
  • Brownsword, R., 2015. Human dignity from a legal perspective. Cambridge Handbook of Human Dignity Interdisciplinary Perspectives. 1-22.
  • Beyleveld, D., Brownsword, R., 2015. Research participants and the right to be informed. Inspiring A Medico Legal Revolution Essays in Honour of Sheila Mclean. 173-188.
  • Brownsword, R., 2015. Patents and intellectual property rights. Routledge Handbook of Global Ethics. 354-367.
  • Brownsword, R., 2014. Regulatory Coherence—A European Challenge. Studies in European Economic Law and Regulation. 235-258.
  • Brownsword, R., 2014. Comparatively Speaking: ‘Law in its Regulatory Environment’. Method and Culture of Comparative Law Essays in Honour of Mark Van Hoecke. 189-205.
  • Brownsword, R., 2013. Post-Technique : The New Social Contract Today. In: Campbell, D., Mulcahy, L., Wheeler, S., eds. Changing Concepts of Contract. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 14-37.
  • Brownsword, R., 2013. A Simple Regulatory Principle for Performance-Enhancing Technologies: Too Good to be True? Athletic enhancement, human nature and ethics: Threats and opportunities of doping technologies. Netherlands: Springer, 291-310.
  • Brownsword, R., 2013. Contracts in a Networked World. In: di Matteo, L., Zhou, Q., Saintier, S., Rowley, K., eds. Commercial Contract Law: Transatlantic Perspectives. Cambridge University Press.
  • Brownsword, R., 2013. Contracts with Network Effects - Is the Time Now Right? In: Grundmann, S., eds. From Exchange to Cooperation—Networks and Long-Term Relationships in European Contract Law. Aldershot: Ashgate, 137-163.
  • Brownsword, R., 2013. Criminal Law, Regulatory Frameworks and Public Health. In: Coggon, J., Kessel, A., Viens, A.M., eds. Criminal Law, Regulatory Frameworks and Public Health. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 19-41.
  • Brownsword, R., 2013. Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Simply Trying to Do the Right Thing. In: McCrudden, C., eds. Understanding Human Dignity. OUP, 470-490.
  • Brownsword, R., 2013. Regulating Biobanks: Another Triple Bottom Line. In: Pascuzzi, G., Izzo, U., Macilotti, M., eds. Comparative Issues in the Governance of Research Biobanks: Property, Privacy, Intellectual Property, and the Role of Technology. Springer, 41-62.
  • Brownsword, R., 2012. Crimes against humanity, simple crime, and human dignity. Humanity Across International Law and Biolaw. 87-114.
  • Brownsword, R., 2012. Menschenwürde und Nanotechnologie: Zwei Perspektiven, zahlreiche Ethiken. In: Joerden, J., Hilgendorf, E., Thiele, F., eds. Menschenwürde und Medizin. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1019-1032.
  • Brownsword, R., 2012. Regulating Brain Imaging: Questions of Privacy, Informed Consent and Human Dignity. In: Edwards, S.J.L., Richmond, S., Rees, G., eds. I Know What You're Thinking: Brain imaging and mental privacy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 223-244.
  • Brownsword, R., 2011. Maps, Methodologies, and Critiques: Confessions of a Contract Lawyer. Methodologies of Legal Research Which Kind of Method for What Kind of Discipline. 133-153.
  • Brownsword, R., 2011. Editorial Introduction. Foundations of European Private Law. 1-10.
  • Brownsword, R., 2011. Autonomy, Delegation, and Responsibility: Agents in Automatic Computing Environments. In: Hildebrandt, M., Rouvroy, A., eds. Law, Human Agency and Autonomic Computing. Routledge, 64-84.
  • Brownsword, R., 2011. Biobanks, Rights, and the Regulatory Environment. In: Faralli, C., Galletti, M., eds. Biobanche e informazioni genetiche. Problemi etici e giuridici. Aracne, 85-111.
  • Brownsword, R., 2011. Editorial Introduction. In: Brownsword, R., Micklitz, H., Niglia, L., Weatherill, S., eds. The foundations of European private law. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 3-9.
  • Brownsword, R., 2011. Maps, Critiques, and Methodologies: Confessions of a Contract Lawyer. In: van Hoecke, M., eds. Methodologies of Legal Research. Hart Publishing, 133-153.
  • Brownsword, R., 2011. The Theoretical Foundations of European Private Law: A Time to Stand and Stare. In: Brownsword, R., Micklitz, H., Niglia, L., Weatherill, S., eds. The foundations of European private law. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 159-174.
  • Brownsword, R., 2010. The ancillary-care responsibilities of researchers: Reasonable but not great expectations. Global Health and Human Rights Legal and Philosophical Perspectives. 81-101.
  • Brownsword, R., 2010. General Considerations. In: Furmston, M., eds. Butterworths Common Law Series: The Law of Contract (4th ed). Butterworths, 1-253.
  • Brownsword, R., 2010. The Age of Regulatory Governance and Nanotechnologies. International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 60-80.
  • Brownsword, R., 2010. The Ancillary-Care Responsibilities of Researchers: Reasonable but not Great Expectations. In: Harrington, J., Stuttaford, M., eds. Global Health and Human Rights: Legal and Philosophical Perspectives. Routledge, 81-101.
  • Brownsword, R., Beyleveld, D., 2009. Complex Technology, Complex Calculations: Uses and Abuses of Precautionary Reasoning in Law. In: Duwell, M., Sollie, P., eds. Evaluating New Technologies: Methodological Problems for the Ethical Assessment of Technological Developments. Springer, 175-190.
  • Brownsword, R., 2009. Consent in Data Protection Law: Privacy, Fair Processing, and Confidentiality. In: Gutwirth, S., Poullet, Y., de Hert, P., de Terwangne, C., Nouwt, S., eds. Reinventing Data Protection?. Springer, 83-110.
  • Brownsword, R., 2009. Human Dignity, Ethical Pluralism, and the Regulation of Modern Biotechnologies. In: Murphy, T., eds. New Technologies and Human Rights. Oxford University Press, 19-84.
  • Brownsword, R., 2009. Network Contracts Revisited. In: Amstutz, M., Teubner, G., eds. Networks Subtitle legal issues of multilateral co-operation. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 31-52.
  • Brownsword, R., 2009. Property in Human Tissue: Triangulating the Issue. In: Steinmann, M., Sykora, P., Wiesing, U., eds. Altruism Reconsidered Subtitle Exploring New Approaches to Property in Human Tissue. Ashgate Publishing, 93-104.
  • Brownsword, R., 2009. Regulating Transactions: Good Faith and Fair Dealing. In: Howells, G., Schulze, R., eds. Modernising and Harmonising Consumer Contract Law. Munich: Sellier, European Law, 87-113.
  • Brownsword, R., 2009. Rights, Responsibility and Stewardship: Beyond Consent. In: Widdows, H., Mullen, C., eds. The Governance of Genetic Information: Who Decides?. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 99-125.
  • Brownsword, R., 2008. Cloning, zoning and the harm principle. First do no Harm Law Ethics and Healthcare. 527-542.
  • Brownsword, R., 2008. Knowing me, knowing you - Profiling, privacy and the public interest. Profiling the European Citizen Cross Disciplinary Perspectives. 345-363.
  • Brownsword, R., 2008. Biobank governance: Property, privacy and consent. Ethics and Law of Intellectual Property Current Problems in Politics Science and Technology. 11-25.
  • Brownsword, R., Yeung, K., 2008. Regulating Technologies: Tools, Targets and Thematics. Regulating Technologies Legal Futures Regulatory Frames and Technological Fixes. 4-22.
  • Brownsword, R., 2008. Suisse Atlantique Société d’Armament SA v NV Rotterdamsche Kolen Centrale (1966). Landmark Cases in the Law of Contract. 299-320.
  • Brownsword, R., 2008. Genetic Engineering, Free Trade, and Human Rights: Global Standards and Local Ethics. In: Wuger, D., Cottier, T., eds. Genetic Engineering and the World Trade System (World Trade Forum). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 287-314.
  • Brownsword, R., 2008. Bioethics : Bridging From Morality to Law? In: Freeman, M., eds. Law and Bioethics. Oxford University Press, 12-30.
  • Brownsword, R., 2008. Contract, Consent, and Civil Society: Private Governance and Public Imposition. In: Odell, P., Willett, C., eds. Global Governance and the Quest for Justice. Hart Publishing, 5-37.
  • Brownsword, R., 2008. Fundamental Questions: Suisse Atlantique Revisited. In: Mitchell, P., Mitchell, C., eds. Landmark Cases in the Law of Contract. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 299-320.
  • Brownsword, R., 2008. Knowing Me, Knowing You - Profiling, Privacy and the Public Interest. In: Hildebrandt, M., Gutwirth, S., eds. Profiling the European Citizen. New York: Springer, 362-382.
  • Brownsword, R., 2008. Regulating Technologies: Tools, Targets, and Thematics. In: Brownsword, R., Yeung, K., eds. Regulating technologies. Oxford: Hart, 3-22.
  • Brownsword, R., 2008. So What Does the World Need Now? Reflections on Regulating Technologies. In: Yeung, K., eds. Regulating technologies. Oxford: Hart, 23-48.
  • Brownsword, R., 2007. Red lights and rogues: Regulating human genetics. Regulatory Challenge of Biotechnology Human Genetics Food and Patents. 39-62.
  • Brownsword, R., 2007. Ethical Pluralism and the Regulation of Modern Biotechnology. Biotechnologies and International Human Rights. 45-70.
  • Brownsword, R., 2005. Human rights - what hope? Human dignity - what scope? Ethics Law and Society Volume I. 189-209.
  • Brownsword, R., 2005. Introduction: Global Governance and Human Rights. Global Governance and the Quest for Justice Volume IV Human Rights. 1-7.
  • Brownsword, R., 2005. Biotechnology and Rights: Where are We Coming From and Where are We Going? In: Klang, M., Murray, A., eds. Human rights in the digital age. London: GlassHouse.
  • Brownsword, R., 2004. Introduction: Human Rights and Global Governance. In: Brownsword, R., eds. Human rights. Oxford: Hart.
  • Brownsword, R., 2004. What the World Needs Now: Techno-Regulation, Human Rights and Human Dignity. In: Brownsword, R., eds. Human Rights. Oxford: Hart.
  • Brownsword, R., 2003. After Investors: Interpretation, Expectation and the Implicit Dimension of the "New Contextualism". In: Campbell, D., Collins, H., Wightman, J., eds. Implicit dimensions of contract : discrete, relational, and network contracts. Oxford: Hart Publishers.
  • Brownsword, R., Furmston, M., 2003. General considerations. The law of contract. London: LexisNexis.
  • Brownsword, R., Beyleveld, D., 2003. Is Patent Law Part of the EC Legal Order? In: Baumgartner, C., Mieth, D., eds. Patente am Leben? : ethische, rechtliche und politische Aspekte der Biopatentierung. Paderborn: Mentis.
  • Brownsword, R., 2001. Freedom of Contract, Human Rights and Human Dignity. In: Friedmann, D., Barak-Erez, D., eds. Human rights in private law. Oxford: Hart.
  • Brownsword, R., 2001. Privity of Contract: Beyond Promissory Principle and Protective Pragmatism. In: Kincaid, P., eds. Privity : private justice or public regulation. Aldershot; Burlington USA: Ashgate/Dartmouth.
  • Brownsword, R., 2001. Supporting Small Businesses to Deal with Legal Issues in E-Commerce. In: Stanford-Smith, B., Chiozza, E., eds. E-work and E-commerce : novel solutions and practices for a global networked economy. Amsterdam; Washington, DC: IOS Press.

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