Chris Marsden is Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Technology and the Law, and Director of the Digital Law Group at Monash. He served on the ARC College of Experts 2024-26. He was appointed a Fellow of Columbia CITI in 2024, Research Associate at GLOCOM (Tokyo) since 2008, Fellow of the Open Forum Europe since 2017. He has been since 2020 a research affiliate of the PILOT Lab at Penn State University.

Sage reports he has been cited in almost 100 policy documents in over 15 countries by IGOs, United Nations, European and national Parliaments, European Commission, governments and law reform bodies. He has advised governments and IGOs on digital law and policy since 1995.

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 that pioneered interdisciplinary examination of Internet law (Routledge, Hart), over 60 refereed articles and scholarly book chapters, 11 monograph length refereed reports commissioned by international organisations, and over 100 other articles and research reports. He frequently advises governments and IGOs on digital human rights, telecoms and broadcast regulatory law, and AI law and policy, and has done so for over 25 years.

Google Scholar reports over 100 works have been cited by other academics, with over 3200 citations, an h-index of 24 and i10-index of 51. SciVal FWCI: 4.34 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 served as Associate Director, Global Governance, 2023-4 of the Monash Data Futures Institute (MDFI). He has served on boards of the Society for Computers and Law since 2010. He has been a Research Fellow in the USA (Harvard, USC Annenberg), Japan (GLOCOM, Keio), Australia (University of Melbourne, UNSW), Brazil (FGV Law, Rio) and UK (Cambridge Computer Lab, Oxford Internet Institute and Centre for Socio Legal Studies).

He joined Monash in 2022, from Sussex Law School, where he was Professor of Law since 2013, Director of the Centre for Information Governance Research, Co-Investigator in the UK Trusted Autonomous Systems Governance and Regulation consortium (UKRI-EPSRC 2020-4) and Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy (UKRI-ESRC 2022-27). He founded and co-directed the European Internet Science (EINS) FP7 Network of Excellence in 2010-15. He has also led social science awards over a 25 year period, including the European Commission DG JUST Openlaws.eu project 2014-16, OECD telecoms reform in Mexico (2016-17), and Internet co-regulation projects for the European Commission at Oxford CSLS (2004-5) RAND Europe (2006-8), and Essex (2009-10). The total value of these research awards is over $30m. 

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 (2004-5) and Senior Analyst at RAND Europe (2005-7).