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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).
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• 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.
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• Brownsword, R., 2025. Five conversations and new directions for law and technology. Law Innovation and Technology, 17 (1).
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• Brownsword, R., 2024. Law, Technology, and Our Governance Dilemma. Laws, 13 (3).
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• Brownsword, R., 2024. Legal Metrics: Getting the Measure of Good Governance. Italian Law Journal, 10 (1-2).
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• 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.
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• Brownsword, R., 2023. Between Rocks and Hard Places: Good Governance in Ethically Divided Communities. New Bioethics, 29 (3), 247-264.
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• Brownsword, R., 2022. Law, authority, and respect: three waves of technological disruption. Law Innovation and Technology, 14 (1), 5-40.
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• Brownsword, R., 2022. Foreword. Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence Global Perspectives on Law and Ethics.
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• Brownsword, R., 2021. Migrants, State Responsibilities, and Human Dignity. Ratio Juris, 34 (1), 6-28.
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• Brownsword, R., Somsen, H., 2021. Law, innovation and technology: fast forward to 2021. Law Innovation and Technology, 13 (1), 1-28.
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• Brownsword, R., Wale, J., 2021. In ordinary times, in extraordinary times: Consent, newborn screening, genetics and pandemics. Biolaw Journal, 2021 (SpecialIssue), 129-153.
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• Brownsword, R., 2020. Law, technology, and society: In a state of delicate tension. Notizie Di Politeia, 36 (137).
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• Brownsword, R., 2019. Regulatory Fitness: Fintech, Funny Money, and Smart Contracts. European Business Organization Law Review, 20 (1), 5-27.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• Brownsword, R., 2016. Technological management and the rule of law. Law Innovation and Technology, 8 (1), 100-140.
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• 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.
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• Brownsword, R., 2015. In the year 2061: From law to technological management. Law Innovation and Technology, 7 (1), 1-51.
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• Brownsword, R., 2014. Regulating patient safety: Is it time for a technological response? Law Innovation and Technology, 6 (1).
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• Brownsword, R., 2013. Public health interventions: Liberal limits and stewardship responsibilities. Public Health Ethics, 6 (3).
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• Brownsword, R., 2013. Dignity - Its History and Meaning. Social and Legal Studies, 22 (2).
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• Brownsword, R., 2012. Human dignity, biolaw, and the basis of moral community. Journal De Medecine Legale Droit Medical, 55 (3-4).
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• 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).
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• Brownsword, R., 2012. Whither the Law and the Law Books? From Prescription to Possibility. Journal of Law and Society, 39 (2).
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• Brownsword, R., 2012. Networks as Connected Contracts. The Modern Law Review, 75 (3).
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• Brownsword, R.. Emerging Technologies, Extreme Uncertainty, and Principle of Rational Precautionary Reasoning. Law, Innovation and Technology, 4 (1).
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• Brownsword, R.. Five Principles for the Regulation of Human Enhancement. Asian Biotechnology and Development Review, 4 (4).
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• Brownsword, R.. Guidelines for our Genomic Futures. Rivista Medica, 20.
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• Brownsword, R.. Human Dignity in Bioethics and Law. Medical Law Review, 20 (2).
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• Brownsword, R.. The shaping of our on-line worlds: getting the regulatory environment right. International Journal of Information and Technology, 20 (4).
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• Brownsword, R.. Why I wrote ... rights, regulation, and the technological revolution. The Journal of Clinical Ethics, 6 (4).
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• Brownsword, R., Brownsword, R.. Human Dignity and Nanotechnologies: Two Frames, Many Ethics. Jahbuch fur Recht und Ethik, 19.
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• Brownsword, R.. Lost in Translation: Legality, Regulatory Margins, and Technological Management. Berkeley Technology Law Journal, 26 (3).
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• Brownsword, R.. Responsible Regulation: Prudence, Precaution and Stewardship. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 62 (5).
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• Brownsword, R., 2010. Human dignity, biolaw, and the basis of moral community. Journal International De Bioethique, 21 (4).
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• Brownsword, R., Earnshaw, J.J., 2010. The ethics of screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm in men. Journal of Medical Ethics, 36 (12), 827-830.
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• Brownsword, R.. Framers and Problematisers: Getting to Grips with Global Governance. Transnational Legal Theory, 1 (2).
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• Brownsword, R.. Brain Science: In the Regulatory Spotlight. Science in Parliament, 67 (2).
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• Brownsword, R.. Embryonic Stem Cell Patents: European Law and Ethics. The Modern Law Review, 73 (3).
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• Brownsword, R., 2010. Human dignity, biolaw, and the basis of moral community. Journal International de Bioethique, 21 (4), 21.
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• Brownsword, R.. Regulating the Life Sciences, Pluralism, and the Limits of Deliberative Democracy. Singapore Academy of Law Journal, 22 (2).
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• Brownsword, R.. Tax Exemption, Moral Reservation, ad Regulatory Incentivisation. European Journal of Risk Regulation, 3.
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• Brownsword, R.. Nanoethics: Old wine, new bottles? Journal of Consumer Policy: consumer issues in law, economics and behavioral sciences, 32 (4).
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• Brownsword, R., Somsen, H.. Law, Innovation and Technology: Before We Fast Forward - A Forum For Debate. Law, Innovation and Technology, 1 (1).
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• Brownsword, R.. Regulating Human Enhancement: Things Can Only Get Better? Law, Innovation and Technology, 1 (1).
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• Brownsword, R., Baldwin, T., Schmidt, H.. Stewardship, Paternalism and public health: Further thoughts. Public Health Ethics, 2 (1).
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• Brownsword, R., 2009. Friends, Romans and Countrymen: Is There a Universal Right to Identity? Law, Innovation and Technology, 1 (2), 223-249.
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• Brownsword, R.. Regulating Nanotechnologies: A Matter of Some Uncertainty. Politeia, XXV (94).
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• Brownsword, R., 2009. Regulating brain imaging: challenge and opportunity. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 3, 50.
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• Brownsword, R.. The Society of Enhanced Legal Scholars, Seven of Nine, and Some Regulatory Challenges for Future Generations. Amicus Curiae, 78.
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• Brownsword, R., Lewis, D., 2008. General Editor’s Preface. Global Governance and the Quest for Justice Volume III Civil Society, 3.
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• 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.. The ancillary-care obligations of medical researchers working in developing countries Cer. PL o S Medicine, 5 (5).
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• Brownsword, R.. Regulating nanomedicine - The smallest of our concerns? NanoEthics: ethics for technologies that converge at the nanoscale, 2 (1).
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• Brownsword, R., 2007. The ancillary-care responsibilities of researchers: reasonable but not great expectations. J Law Med Ethics, 35 (4), 679-513.
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• Brownsword, R., 2006. Public health, private right, and the common law. Public Health, 120 Suppl, 42-50.
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• Brownsword, R., 2006. Public health, private right: Constitution and common law. Medical Law International, 7 (3).
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• Brownsword, R., Lewis, D., 2006. Preface. Global Governance and the Quest for Justice Volume II Corporate Governance.
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• Brownsword, R., Lewis, D., 2006. Preface. Global Governance and the Quest for Justice Volume I International and Regional Organisations, I.
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• Caulfield, T., Brownsword, R., 2006. Human dignity: a guide to policy making in the biotechnology era? Nat Rev Genet, 7 (1), 72-76.
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• Brownsword, R., Lewis, D., 2005. Preface. Global Governance and the Quest for Justice Volume IV Human Rights, 4.
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• Brownsword, R.. Code, Control, and Choice: Why East is East and West is West. Legal Studies, 21.
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• Brownsword, R.. Stem Cells and Cloning: Where the Regulatory Consensus Fails. New England Law Review, 39.
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• Brownsword, R., 2004. Reproductive Opportunities and Regulatory Challenges. Modern Law Review, 67 (2), 304-321.
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• Brownsword, R.. Genes and Insurance. Kings College Law Journal, 15 (1).
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• Brownsword, R.. Regulating Human Genetics: New Dilemmas For A New Millennium. Medical Law Review, 12 (1).
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• Brownsword, R.. The Cult of Consent: Fixation and Fallacy. Kings College Law Journal, 15 (2).
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• Brownsword, R.. The Enforceability of Promises in European Contract Law. Edited by James Gordley. The European Legacy: toward new paradigms, 9.
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• Moffat, A.C., Osselton, M.D., Widdop, B., Clarke, E.G.C.. Clarke's analysis of drugs and poisons. Pharmaceutical Pr.
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• Moffat, A.C., Osselton, M.D., Widdop, B., Clarke, E.G.C.. Clarke's analysis of drugs and poisons. Pharmaceutical Pr.
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• Brownsword, R., 2003. An Interest in Human Dignity as the Basis for Genomic Torts. Washburn Law Journal, 42 (3), 413-488.
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• Brownsword, R.. Causes for Concern and Causes of Action: A Comment on "Pushing Drugs". Washburn Law Journal, 42 (Part 3).
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• Brownsword, R.. Bioethics Today, Bioethics Tomorrow: Stem Cell Research and the "Dignitarian Alliance". Notre Dame Journal of Law, 17 (Part 1).
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• Brownsword, R., 2003. Causes for concern and causes of action: a comment on "Pushing drugs". Washburn Law J, 42 (3), 601-614.
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• 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.
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• Brownsword, R., 2002. Stem cells, Superman, and the report of the Select Committee. Mod Law Rev, 65 (4), 568-587.
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• Beyleveld, D., Brownsword, R., Wallace, S., 2002. Clinical ethics committees: clinician support or crisis management? HEC Forum, 14 (1), 13-25.
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• Brownsword, R.. Stem Cells, Superman, and the Report of the Select Committee. The Modern Law Review, 65 (Part 4).
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• Brownsword, R., Beyleveld, D., Wallace, S.. Clinical Ethics Committees: Clinician Support or Crisis Management? Healthcare Ethics Committee Forum, 14 (Part 1).
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• Brownsword, R.. Ethics Committees: Public Interest, Private Interest, and the Ethics of Partnership. Biomedical and Health Research - Commission of the European Communities then IOS Press, 51.
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• Brownsword, R., Wallace, S.. Independent Ethics Committees in the United Kingdom. Biomedical and Health Research- Commission of the European Communities then Ios Press, 51.
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• Brownsword, R., Beyleveld, D.. 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.
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• Brownsword, R.. REGULATING STEM CELL RESEARCH. Science and Public Affairs.
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• Brownsword, R., Howells, G.. Europe's E-Commerce Directive - A Too Hasty Legislative Rush to Judgment?? JOURNAL OF LAW AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, 11 (Part 1).
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• Brownsword, R.. Individualism, Cooperativism and an Ethic for European Contract Law. Modern Law Review, 64 (Part 4).
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• Brownsword, R., Howells, G.. CONSUMER PROTECTION ON THE INTERNET: THE IMPACT OF THE INFORMATION SOCIETY ON LAW. Contemporary Issues in Law, 4 (Part 4).
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• Brownsword, R., McHale, J.. My Body, My Body Parts, My Property? Health Care Analysis, 8 (Part 2).
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• Beyleveld, D., Brownsword, R., 2000. My body, my body parts, my property? Health Care Anal, 8 (2), 87-99.
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• Brownsword, R., Howells, G., 1999. When surfers start to shop: Internet commerce and contract law. Legal Studies, 19 (3).
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• Brownsword, R., 1999. Ethics in legal education: High roads and low roads, mazes and motorways. Law Teacher, 33 (3).
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• Beyleveld, D., Brownsword, R., 1998. Human dignity, human rights, and human genetics. Mod Law Rev, 61 (5), 661-680.
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• Brownsword, R., 1996. Where are all the law schools going? Law Teacher, 30 (1).
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• Adams, J.N., Brownsword, R., 1993. Privity of Contract — That Pestilential Nuisance. Modern Law Review, 56 (5).
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• Beyleveld, D., Brownsword, R., 1991. Privity, Transitivity and Rationality. Modern Law Review, 54 (1).
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• Adams, J.N., Brownsword, R., 1991. More in Expectation than Hope: The Blackpool Airport Case. Modern Law Review, 54 (2).
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• Adams, J.N., Brownsword, R., 1990. Privity and the concept of a network contract. Legal Studies, 10 (1).
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• Beyleveld, D., Brownsword, R., 1989. Normative positivism: The mirage of the middle-way. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 9 (4).
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• Adams, J.N., Brownsword, R., 1988. Law Reform, Law‐Jobs, and Law Commission No. 160. Modern Law Review, 51 (4).
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• Adams, J.N., Brownsword, R., 1987. The ideologies of contract. Legal Studies, 7 (2).
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• Beyleveld, D., Brownsword, R., 1987. PRACTICE MADE PERFECT? Modern Law Review, 50 (5).
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• Brownsword, R., 1987. ETHICS AND LEGAL EDUCATION: TICKS, CROSSES, AND QUESTION‐MARKS. Modern Law Review, 50 (4).
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• Beyleveld, D., Brownsword, R., 1985. The practical difference between natural-law theory and legal positivism. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 5 (1).
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• Bottoms, A.E., Brownsword, R., 1982. The dangerousness debate after the floud report. British Journal of Criminology, 22 (3).
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• Brownsword, R., Harden, I.J., 1981. Rights and the Red Book. Legal Studies, 1 (1).
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Books

• Brownsword, R., 2025. LAW, TECHNOLOGY AND GOVERNANCE.
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• Brownsword, R., 2024. The future of governance: A radical introduction to law.
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• Brownsword, R., 2023. TECHNOLOGY, HUMANS, AND DISCONTENT WITH LAW: The Quest for Better Governance.
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• Brownsword, R., 2022. Rethinking Law, Regulation, and Technology.
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• Brownsword, R., 2022. TECHNOLOGY, GOVERNANCE AND RESPECT FOR THE LAW: Pictures at an Exhibition.
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• Brownsword, R., 2019. Law, Technology and Society Reimagining the Regulatory Environment. Routledge.
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• Brownsword, R., van Gestel, R.A.J., Micklitz, H.W., 2017. Contract and regulation: A handbook on new methods of law making in private law.
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• Brownsword, R., van Gestel, R.A.J., Micklitz, H.W., 2017. Introduction-contract and regulation: Changing paradigms.
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• Düwell, M., Braarvig, J., Brownsword, R., Mieth, D., van Steenbergen, N., Düring, D., 2015. The Cambridge handbook of human dignity: Interdisciplinary perspectives.
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• Brownsword, R., Scotford, E., Yeung, K.. Oxford Handbook in Law, Regulation and Technology. OUP.
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• Brownsword, R.. Cambridge Handbook of Human Dignity. Cambridge University Press.
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• Brownsword, R., 2012. Foreword: Public health, environment and human rights: A two-stage approach.
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• Brownsword, R., 2012. Foreword: Public health, environment and human rights: A two-stage approach.
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• Brownsword, R., Goodwin, M.. Law and the technologies of the twenty-first century : text and materials. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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• Brownsword, R., Micklitz, H.W., Niglia, L., Weatherill, S., 2011. The Foundations of European Private Law.
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• Brownsword, R.. Smith and Thomas : a casebook on contract. London: Sweet & Maxwell.
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• Brownsword, R., 2008. Regulating technologies : Legal Futures, Regulatory Frames and Technological Fixes. Oxford: Hart.
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• Brownsword, R.. Rights, regulation, and the technological revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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• Brownsword, R., Beyleveld, D., 2007. Consent in the Law. Oxford: Hart Publishing.
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• Brownsword, R.. Contract Law: Themes for the Twenty-First Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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• Brownsword, R., 2005. Global Governance and the Quest for Justice: Volume IV: Human Rights.
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• Brownsword, R., Adams, J.N.. Understanding contract law. London: Sweet & Maxwell.
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• Brownsword, R., Adams, J.. Understanding Law. London: Sweet & Maxwell.
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• Brownsword, R., Beyleveld, D.. Human dignity in bioethics and biolaw. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.
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Chapters

• Brownsword, R., 2025. Lawyers in Cryptoland. Routledge Handbook of Nft Law.
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• Brownsword, R., 2025. Treating ai as a legal person: Simply a means to a regulatory end? Future of the Person.
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• Brownsword, R., 2025. Regulating AI in Insurance: An ‘All-Risks’ Approach. Insurability of Emerging Risks Law Theory and Practice.
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• Brownsword, R., 2024. Governance, AI and consumers: Looking forward. Cambridge Handbook of AI and Consumer Law Comparative Perspectives.
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• Brownsword, R., 2023. Law, regulation, and technology: the bigger picture of good governance. Research Handbook on Law and Technology.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• Brownsword, R., 2023. AI and Fundamental Rights: The People, the Conversations, and the Governance Challenges. Law Governance and Technology Series.
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• Brownsword, R., 2023. Private Law, Technology and Governance. Data and Private Law.
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• 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.
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• Brownsword, R., 2022. Human Rights - What Hope? Human Dignity - What Scope? Ethics Law and Society.
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• Brownsword, R., 2021. Axiological Pluralism: Conflict in the Hospital, Resolution in the Courts. Ius Gentium.
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• Brownsword, R., 2021. Political Disruption, Technological Disruption and the Future of EU Private Law. New Directions in European Private Law.
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• Brownsword, R., 2021. Regulating Automated Healthcare and Research Technologies: First Do No Harm (to the Commons). Cambridge Handbook of Health Research Regulation.
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• 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.
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• Brownsword, R., 2019. Legal regulation of technology: Supporting innovation managing risk and respecting values. Science Technology and Society New Perspectives and Directions.
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• Brownsword, R., 2019. Smart transactional technologies, legal disruption, and the case of network contracts. Cambridge Handbook of Smart Contracts Blockchain Technology and Digital Platforms.
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• Brownsword, R., 2019. Transformative technologies and responsive legal scholarship. 3D Printing and Beyond Intellectual Property and Regulation.
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• Brownsword, R., 2019. Teaching the law of contract in a world of new transactional technologies. Reimagining Contract Law Pedagogy A New Agenda for Teaching.
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• Brownsword, R., 2019. Law schools for lawyers, citizens, and people. Law School Global Issues Local Questions.
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• 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.
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• Brownsword, R., 2017. Law, Liberty and Technology. The Oxford Handbook of Law, Regulation and Technology. Oxford University Press.
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• Brownsword, R., 2017. Field, Frame and Focus: Methodological Issues in the New Legal World. Rethinking Legal Scholarship A Transatlantic Dialogue. Cambridge University Press.
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• Brownsword, R., 2017. Stem cells, superman, and the report of the select committee. Genetics and Gene Therapy.
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• Brownsword, R., 2017. Law as a Moral Judgment, the Domain of Jurisprudence, and Technological Management. Ethical Rationalism and the Law.
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• 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.
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• Beyleveld, D., Brownsword, R., 2016. Research participants and the right to be informed. Inspiring A Medico Legal Revolution Essays in Honour of Sheila Mclean.
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• Brownsword, R., Wale, J., 2016. Compromise medicalisation. Pioneering Healthcare Law Essays in Honour of Margaret Brazier. 292-304.
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• Brownsword, R., 2016. Cloning, zoning and the harm principle. First do no Harm Law Ethics and Healthcare.
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• Brownsword, R., 2016. Big Biobanks: Three Major Governance Challenges and Some Mini-constitutional Responses. Research Ethics Forum.
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• Brownsword, R., 2016. Property in Human Tissue: Triangulating the Issue. Altruism Reconsidered Exploring New Approaches to Property in Human Tissue.
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• Brownsword, R., 2015. Human dignity from a legal perspective. Cambridge Handbook of Human Dignity Interdisciplinary Perspectives. 1-22.
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• Beyleveld, D., Brownsword, R., 2015. Research participants and the right to be informed. Inspiring A Medico Legal Revolution Essays in Honour of Sheila Mclean.
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• Brownsword, R., 2015. Patents and intellectual property rights. Routledge Handbook of Global Ethics.
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• Brownsword, R., 2014. Regulatory Coherence—A European Challenge. Studies in European Economic Law and Regulation.
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• Brownsword, R., 2014. Comparatively Speaking: ‘Law in its Regulatory Environment’. Method and Culture of Comparative Law Essays in Honour of Mark Van Hoecke.
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• 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.
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• Brownsword, R.. 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.
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• Brownsword, R.. Contracts in a Networked World. In: di Matteo, L., Zhou, Q., Saintier, S., Rowley, K., eds. Commercial Contract Law: Transatlantic Perspectives. Cambridge University Press.
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• Brownsword, R.. 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.
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• Brownsword, R.. Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Simply Trying to Do the Right Thing. In: McCrudden, C., eds. Understanding Human Dignity. OUP.
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• Brownsword, R.. 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.
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• Brownsword, R., 2012. Crimes against humanity, simple crime, and human dignity. Humanity Across International Law and Biolaw.
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• Brownsword, R.. Menschenwürde und Nanotechnologie: Zwei Perspektiven, zahlreiche Ethiken. In: Joerden, J., Hilgendorf, E., Thiele, F., eds. Menschenwürde und Medizin. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.
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• Brownsword, R.. 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.
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• 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.
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• Brownsword, R., 2011. Editorial Introduction. Foundations of European Private Law.
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• Brownsword, R.. Autonomy, Delegation, and Responsibility: Agents in Automatic Computing Environments. In: Hildebrandt, M., Rouvroy, A., eds. Law, Human Agency and Autonomic Computing. Routledge.
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• Brownsword, R.. Biobanks, Rights, and the Regulatory Environment. In: Faralli, C., Galletti, M., eds. Biobanche e informazioni genetiche. Problemi etici e giuridici. Aracne.
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• Brownsword, R.. Editorial Introduction. In: Brownsword, R., Micklitz, H., Niglia, L., Weatherill, S., eds. The foundations of European private law. Oxford: Hart Publishing.
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• Brownsword, R.. Maps, Critiques, and Methodologies: Confessions of a Contract Lawyer. In: van Hoecke, M., eds. Methodologies of Legal Research. Hart Publishing.
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• Brownsword, R.. 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.
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• Brownsword, R., 2010. The ancillary-care responsibilities of researchers: Reasonable but not great expectations. Global Health and Human Rights Legal and Philosophical Perspectives.
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• Brownsword, R.. General Considerations. In: Furmston, M., eds. Butterworths Common Law Series: The Law of Contract (4th ed). Butterworths.
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• Brownsword, R.. The Age of Regulatory Governance and Nanotechnologies. International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
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• Brownsword, R.. 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.
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• Brownsword, R., Beyleveld, D.. 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.
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• Brownsword, R.. 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.
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• Brownsword, R.. Human Dignity, Ethical Pluralism, and the Regulation of Modern Biotechnologies. In: Murphy, T., eds. New Technologies and Human Rights. Oxford University Press.
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• Brownsword, R.. Network Contracts Revisited. In: Amstutz, M., Teubner, G., eds. Networks Subtitle legal issues of multilateral co-operation. Oxford: Hart Publishing.
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• Brownsword, R.. 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.
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• Brownsword, R.. Regulating Transactions: Good Faith and Fair Dealing. In: Howells, G., Schulze, R., eds. Modernising and Harmonising Consumer Contract Law. Munich: Sellier, European Law.
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• Brownsword, R.. Rights, Responsibility and Stewardship: Beyond Consent. In: Widdows, H., Mullen, C., eds. The Governance of Genetic Information: Who Decides?. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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• Brownsword, R., 2008. Cloning, zoning and the harm principle. First do no Harm Law Ethics and Healthcare.
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• Brownsword, R., 2008. Knowing me, knowing you - Profiling, privacy and the public interest. Profiling the European Citizen Cross Disciplinary Perspectives.
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• Brownsword, R., 2008. Biobank governance: Property, privacy and consent. Ethics and Law of Intellectual Property Current Problems in Politics Science and Technology.
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• Brownsword, R., Yeung, K., 2008. Regulating Technologies: Tools, Targets and Thematics. Regulating Technologies Legal Futures Regulatory Frames and Technological Fixes.
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• Brownsword, R., 2008. Suisse Atlantique Société d’Armament SA v NV Rotterdamsche Kolen Centrale (1966). Landmark Cases in the Law of Contract.
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• Brownsword, R.. 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.
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• Brownsword, R.. Bioethics : Bridging From Morality to Law? In: Freeman, M., eds. Law and Bioethics. Oxford University Press.
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• Brownsword, R.. 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.
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• Brownsword, R.. Fundamental Questions: Suisse Atlantique Revisited. In: Mitchell, P., Mitchell, C., eds. Landmark Cases in the Law of Contract. Oxford: Hart Publishing.
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• Brownsword, R.. Knowing Me, Knowing You - Profiling, Privacy and the Public Interest. In: Hildebrandt, M., Gutwirth, S., eds. Profiling the European Citizen. New York: Springer.
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• Brownsword, R.. Regulating Technologies: Tools, Targets, and Thematics. In: Brownsword, R., Yeung, K., eds. Regulating technologies. Oxford: Hart.
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• Brownsword, R.. So What Does the World Need Now? Reflections on Regulating Technologies. In: Yeung, K., eds. Regulating technologies. Oxford: Hart.
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• Brownsword, R., 2007. Red lights and rogues: Regulating human genetics. Regulatory Challenge of Biotechnology Human Genetics Food and Patents.
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• Brownsword, R., 2007. Ethical Pluralism and the Regulation of Modern Biotechnology. Biotechnologies and International Human Rights.
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• Brownsword, R., 2005. Human rights - what hope? Human dignity - what scope? Ethics Law and Society Volume I.
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• Brownsword, R., 2005. Introduction: Global Governance and Human Rights. Global Governance and the Quest for Justice Volume IV Human Rights.
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• Brownsword, R.. 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.
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• Brownsword, R.. Introduction: Human Rights and Global Governance. In: Brownsword, R., eds. Human rights. Oxford: Hart.
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• Brownsword, R.. What the World Needs Now: Techno-Regulation, Human Rights and Human Dignity. In: Brownsword, R., eds. Human Rights. Oxford: Hart.
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• Moffat, A.C., Osselton, M.D., Widdop, B., Clarke, E.G.C.. Clarke's analysis of drugs and poisons. Pharmaceutical Pr.
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• Brownsword, R.. 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.
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• Brownsword, R., Furmston, M.. General considerations. The law of contract. London: LexisNexis.
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• Brownsword, R., Beyleveld, D.. 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.
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• Brownsword, R.. Freedom of Contract, Human Rights and Human Dignity. In: Friedmann, D., Barak-Erez, D., eds. Human rights in private law. Oxford: Hart.
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• Brownsword, R.. Privity of Contract: Beyond Promissory Principle and Protective Pragmatism. In: Kincaid, P., eds. Privity : private justice or public regulation. Aldershot; Burlington USA: Ashgate/Dartmouth.
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• Brownsword, R.. 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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