Chris Marsden

Professor Christopher T. Marsden moved from Sussex to Monash Law School in March 2022 (joint appointment until 27 May 2022). He was Professor of Internet Law at the University of Sussex 2013-22, and was Founder-Director of @SussCIGR 2018-22. He is Co-Investigator until 2024 in the UKRI-EPSRC Trusted Autonomous Systems regulation/governance hub and until 2026 in the UKRI-ESRC Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy.

He has held Visiting Fellowships at UNSW Sydney, Harvard, Melbourne, Cambridge, Oxford, USC-Annenberg, Keio, GLOCOM Tokyo, and FGV Rio de Janeiro. He was formerly Professor of Law at Essex, having previously taught and researched at Warwick, Oxford, LSE. He has both LL.B (1989) and LL.M (1994) in Law from LSE, Ph.D. from Essex. He attended St Peter's School, Southbourne 1979-86.

He is willing to supervise PhD students in telecommunications and Internet law relevant to his research. Please ensure you have read his research before contacting him with research proposals.

He is author of five monographs on Internet law: "Network Neutrality: From Policy to Law to Regulation" (2017, Manchester UP) "Regulating Code" (2013, MIT Press with Dr Ian Brown), "Internet Co-regulation: European Law, Regulatory Governance and Legitimacy in Cyberspace" (2011, Cambridge), "Net neutrality: Towards a Co-Regulatory Solution" (2010, Bloomsbury)," Codifying Cyberspace" (Routledge/Cavendish 2007 with Dr. D. Tambini, D. Leonardi). He is also author-editor of the interdisciplinary Internet policy books "Regulating the Global Information Society" (Routledge 2000), and "Convergence in European Digital TV Regulation" (Blackstone/OUP 1999). He is author of many refereed articles, book chapters, professional articles, papers in selected proceedings, keynote addresses, and other scholarly contributions.

His board roles include: Director of @SussCIGR and previously Information Law Group, Sussex since 2013; Editorial Advisory Board Member of the Society for Computers and Law since 2012, Multistakeholder Board member for NOMINET (2017-19), Member DCMS Digital Markets Research Working Group 2021-date, member of the Legal Advisory Board of the Open Rights Group since approximately 2008, research affiliate of the PILOT Lab at Penn State University, Associate Editor of the journal 'info' 2007-16. He is on the boards of several scientific conference committees including IDP, at which he presented the 2011 keynote.He has presented refereed scientific conference papers numerous times, including TPRC, International Telecommunications Society, International Institute of Communications, BILETA and European Communications Policy Research conferences. He is a longstanding member of the Society of Legal Scholars and keynoted the Internet Law section at their 2013 Edinburgh annual meeting. He also keynote lectured at BILETA 2008. He has presented work in progress at many editions of the techno-law Gikii conference.