Mikołaj Barczentewicz

Mikołaj Barczentewicz serves as a senior scholar of innovation policy at the International Center for Law & Economics. His work focuses on technology law and policy, including the regulation of decentralized technologies, digital privacy and security, and online platforms.

His research also covers crypto and Web3 regulation, legal technology, and computational legal research, including the use of programming to support legal analysis and the teaching of technical skills to lawyers. In public law, he studies United Kingdom and European Union constitutional and administrative law, and in legal philosophy, he works on general jurisprudence and constitutional theory.

He is also an associate professor in law at the University of Surrey in Guildford, England, where he serves as research director of the Law and Technology Hub. Earlier at Surrey, he taught public law and legal theory as a senior lecturer and lecturer.

In addition, Barczentewicz serves as a research associate with the University of Oxford Programme for the Foundations of Law and Constitutional Government. He previously held a research associate appointment at Oxford’s Centre for Technology and Global Affairs and was a fellow at Stanford Law School from 2021 to 2023, where he examined the privacy-and-security implications of digital-services regulation in Europe and the United States. Earlier in his academic career, he served as a lecturer in law at Jesus College, Oxford.

Before entering academia, Barczentewicz practiced law in Warsaw as an associate and trainee lawyer at Domański Zakrzewski Palinka, working on European Union law, competition law, pharmaceutical law, and constitutional law. He also served as an expert at the Civic Development Forum Foundation, contributing to government-transparency and legislative-reform projects. Earlier, he worked as a web developer and information architect.

He graduated with distinction from multiple postgraduate law programs at the University of Oxford.