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Andrew Murray is Dean of LSE Law School, and Professor of Law with particular reference to New Media and Technology Law. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA).
Andrew studied law at Edinburgh University, from where he graduated (LL.B. Hons) in 1994. He then spent some time as a research assistant in the Department of Private Law, University of Edinburgh before taking up a lectureship in law at the University of Stirling in 1996. He joined the LSE in September 2000. As well as holding memberships of: The Society of Computers and Law (SCL); The Higher Education Academy (HEA) and The David Hume Institute, Andrew was from 2001-2004 an Executive Member of the British and Irish Law, Education and Technology Association (BILETA); and was from 2002-2008 a recognised 'Independent Expert' of the Nominet UK Dispute Resolution Procedure and from 2007-2012 a Fellow of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn. He is a visiting professor at the Amsterdam Law and Technology Institute and was a visiting professor in the Ecole de Droit, Sciences Po, Paris in Spring 2015 and at the Paris School of International Affairs in Spring 2017. In 2018/19 he was the specialist advisor to the House of Lords Communications Committee inquiry "Regulating in a Digital World". He gave the 2020 TMC Asser Lecture on the subject of "Law and human agency in the Time of Artificial Intelligence". More recently he has advised the Government of Saudi Arabia on the new Saudi Ecommerce Law, was a Judge/Reviewer for the 2024 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize and has acted as a reviewer for the German Federal Government’s "Clusters of Excellence" programme.
Administative support: Molly Craddock (M.Craddock1@lse.ac.uk)
Research
Research Interests
Andrew’s principal research interests are in regulatory design within digital systems and spaces, particularly the role of non-State actors, the protection and promotion of Human Rights within the digital environment and the promotion of proprietary interests in the digital sphere, encompassing both intellectual property rights and traditional property models. He is interested in the regulation of new and emergent technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and digital asset classes. He is the author of the leading textbook Information Technology Law, the Law and Society.
Publications
Teaching
Engagement and impact
External Activities
Andrew is an Expert panellist for the ICC International Centre of Expertise (to decide Limited Public Interest objections raised under the ICANN New gTLD Dispute Resolution Procedure). From 2018 to 2020 he was a specialist advisor to The Ministry of Commerce and Investment of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the project to introduce a New Ecommerce Law for Saudi Arabia. The Law and the enabling Regulations which Andrew also helped draft may be found are here. In 2018/19 he was the specialist advisor to the House of Lords Communications Committee inquiry “Regulating in a Digital World”. The final Report may be found here. He was a member of the IMPRESS Advisory Network and was between 2018 and 2020 a Member of the Law Society LawTech Regulatory Action Taskforce. In 2017/18 he was a Commissioner for the LSE Truth, Trust and Technology Commission. The Final Report of the Commission may be found here.
Public Engagement
The Sixth Annual TMC Asser Lecture
LSE Research: The Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Inaugural Lecture: Open the Pod Bay Doors HAL. Machine Intelligence and the Law
On Law, Technology and Society
Do Algorithms Have Too Much Power? (contributor)