Dr Ilias Ioannou is a Lecturer in Law, Innovation and Technology at the University of Bristol Law School, Deputy Director of the School’s LLM programmes and Co-Director of its Centre for Global Law and Innovation. His research sits at the intersection of law and technology, with a specific focus on the legal, economic and governance implications of adopting emerging technologies in international trade. Ioannou’s scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in leading journals, such as the Cambridge Law Journal, the Columbia Journal of European Law, the Modern Law Review and the Journal of Banking and Financial Technology.

Prior to joining the School, he was a doctoral researcher at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London (funded by the Economic and Social Research Council), a visiting lecturer at the School of Law at King’s College London, a visiting scholar at the Institute for the Unification of Private Law in Rome and a visiting researcher at the Centre for Maritime Law at the National University of Singapore.