Primary fields of research

Andrew's research interests are primarily in international law. They focus on reconciling the benefits, risks, and disruptive potential of emerging technologies and scientific knowledge in international law, especially international human rights law and criminal law. 

Currently, he is part of the DECLaSS project, and is conducting legal doctrinal mapping and evaluation of Danish and EU environmental criminal law, including case law analysis and investigation of transnational environmental crimes, and placing this research in the context of current climate science. To this, the project then applies a sociolegal and primarily criminological lens to determine how environmental criminal law in Denmark can be developed to ensure relevant environmental interests are fully protected.
 
In addition, where science and technology intersect with human rights, public international law, global administrative law, and global governance, Andrew is particularly interested in the impacts and responses to transformative frontier AI. This translates currently into projects concerning the risks of frontier or advanced AI systems – generative AI, AI agents, and AGI – and how anticipating those risks exposes the limits of international human rights law; and how AI agents contribute to dynamic information environments, including where they interpret and apply legal norms and principles (particularly international human rights law norms). Andrew has also been involved in projects theorising and developing international law governance regimes for Advanced AI systems, including directly advising on and drafting treaty provisions and associated commentary for proposed international instruments. He teaches AI and Legal Disruption, a course on the UCPH LLM.

Andrew's 2024 PhD thesis concerned the relationship between scientific and technological advances and human rights and whether the human right to science (Art 15 ICESCR) also guarantees a right to protection from the adverse effects of scientific progress. More than other aspect of Art 15, this right had been very much underdeveloped. His thesis situated and elaborated the content of the right, discussing fundamental tensions, conflicts, and uncertainties in the relationship between enjoying benefits of scientific progress and protection from its risks. The thesis justified a right to participate in scientific progress, a crucial component of protection from the adverse effects of scientific and technological developments and elaborates a legal regime of harm prevention and precaution, qualified by obligations of due diligence, in international human rights law.
 
Connected to these research interests, Andrew is also interested in the role disinformation has, and will continue to have, in undermining truth and knowledge, and how international law can act to ameliorate the effect of disinformation and computational propaganda.

For fifteen years Andrew was a barrister in criminal practice, latterly employed by the UK government. He prosecuted and defended in crown and appellate courts across England and Wales in cases involving serious and organised crime.

CV

2020-2024 PhD, University of Copenhagen

2018-2020 Master of Laws, LLM/Cand.jur, University of Copenhagen, 12

2017-2019 Master of Letters, MLitt, University of Glasgow, Distinction

2006-2014 Crown Advocate, Crown Prosecution Service, London

1999-2006 Barrister, Furnival Chambers, London

1998-1999 Bar Vocational Course, Inns of Court School of Law, Very Competent

1998-1999 Postgraduate Diploma in Criminal Procedure, City University, London

1997-1998 Master of Laws, LLM, King's College, University of London, Merit

1994-1997 Bachelor of Laws, LLB(Hons), University of Greenwich, First Class Honours