Me on the summit of Stuchd an Lochain
On the summit of Stuchd an Lochain

Hello & thanks for visiting! I'm a cross-disciplinary researcher working at the intersection of law, design, and computer science.

Digisprudence book cover

I'm interested in how digital technologies are used in public law, policy-making and legal practice. My recent work has focused on Rules as Code, AI-driven 'legal tech', and design patterns.

More broadly, my research has been focused on the impact of design on democracy and the Rule of Law. I call this perspective digisprudence, and have written about it in articles, my PhD, and my open access book Digisprudence: Code as Law Rebooted (Edinburgh University Press 2022).

For more info, see About me.

I’m currently looking for a new role in policy, design, or research, ideally focusing on the role and governance of AI and computation in policy-making, legal/legislative practice, or government. If you know of anything that might suit, please get in touch!


Recent work

Latest blog post

Research Study on Computational Law

Last month I published the COHUBICOL project’s final Research Study on Computational Law, written by Pauline McBride and myself. We focus on both data-driven and code-driven legal technologies (specifically Rules as Code in the latter case), synthesising the primary research we did for the Typology of Legal Technologies with the theory of the Rule of Law, affordance and Science and Technology Studies (STS).

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