Chris Marsden is Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Technology and the Law, and Director of the Digital Law Group at Monash. He serves on the ARC College of Experts 2024-26. He was appointed a Fellow of Columbia CITI from November 2024. He is a Research Associate at GLOCOM (Tokyo) since 2008. He has been since 2020 a research affiliate of the PILOT Lab at Penn State University. He serves as an Expert in the International Expert Consortium on the Regulation, Economics, and Computer Science of AI (RECSAI) 2024-5. He served as Associate Director, Global Governance, 2023-4 of the Monash Data Futures Institute (MDFI). He served as Area Chair of ACM FAccT, in 2023-4.

Chris researches regulation by code - whether legal, software or social code. He has authored 5 research monographs (Cambridge UP, Routledge, MIT Press, Bloomsbury, Manchester UP), 2 edited collections (Routledge, Hart), over 50 refereed articles and book chapters, 11 monograph length refereed reports for international organisations, and over 100 other articles and research reports. Google Scholar reports over 100 works have been cited by other academics, with over 2800 citations, an h-index of 22 and i10-index of 48. SciVal FWCI is 3.43 for 2020-2024. He was Co-Director of the Warwick-Monash Alliance 'Brussels Effect of the AI Act' workshops in 2023, and co-director of the 'Human Futures in the Age of AI' Monash-Penn State Alliance conference in April 2024. 

He joined Monash from Sussex Law School, where he was Professor of Law (2013-22), Director of the Centre for Information Governance Research and Co-Investigator in the UK Trusted Autonomous Systems Governance and Regulation consortium (UKRI-EPSRC 2020-4 @tas_governance) and Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy (UKRI-ESRC 2022-27 @Centre4ITP). He founded and co-directed the European Internet Science (EINS) FP7 Network of Excellence in 2010-15. The total value of these research awards is over $30m. He has also led social science awards over a 25 year period, including the European Commission DG JUST Openlaws.eu project 2014-16 in a multidisciplinary team with UvA and LSE.

He was previously Senior Lecturer then Professor at Essex Law School (2007-13), Lecturer at Warwick (1997-2000), General Counsel at Shortmedia Ltd (1999-2001), Regulatory Director at WorldCom UK (2001-2), Research Associate at the Centre for SocioLegal Studies Oxford (2003-5) and Senior Analyst at RAND Europe (2005-7). In all these roles, he has advised governments and IGOs on digital law and policy since 1995.