Bio
Morshed Mannan is a Lecturer in Global Law and Digital Technologies at Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh. He was previously a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute. He is also an Affiliate Faculty member at the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy (ICDE) and was previously an ICDE Fellow.
His research focuses on blockchain governance within the ‘BlockchainGov’ ERC project and on cooperative governance. He received his Ph.D. from Leiden Law School, Leiden University, in 2022 for his dissertation entitled The Emergence of Democratic Firms in the Platform Economy: Drivers, Obstacles and the Path Ahead. His most recent book, Blockchain Governance, coauthored with Primavera de Filippi and Wessel Reijers, was published by MIT Press in 2024. He has two further books forthcoming with MIT Press and Edward Elgar.
Mannan has several published and forthcoming articles in leading refereed journals such as The Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity, New Technology Work and Employment, Policy & Society, Ondernemingsrecht, Georgetown Law Technology Review, George Washington Law Review, Technology and Society, Topoi, Erasmus Law Review, and International Insolvency Review. He has also contributed book chapters to volumes published by Brill, Edward Elgar, Routledge, Oxford University Press, and Springer on blockchain governance and democratic firms.
He is a dual-qualified lawyer (England & Wales/Bangladesh) and has acted as a consultant on cooperative law and governance for the International Cooperative Alliance and NCBA Clusa International. He has also served as an expert for the European Commission, the OECD, UNIDROIT, and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs.