Morshed Mannan

Dr. Morshed Mannan is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Global Law and Digital Technology at Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh, where he is co-director of the Scottish Research Centre for IP and Technology Law (SCRIPT Centre). He is also a Science-Policy Visiting Fellow on Data Governance at the United Nations University – Centre for Policy Research Fellow in Geneva and a co-Principal Investigator of the ‘Co-imagining data intermediation in Scottish creative industries’ project, funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

He is an Affiliate Faculty of the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy at The New School in New York City, and has written extensively about the regulation and governance of platform cooperatives and data cooperatives. He is the co-author of two books, most recently Blockchain Governance, published by MIT Press in 2024 and has a forthcoming co-authored monograph, Blockchain Chronicles: A Social History of Ideology, Code, and Law, to be published by MIT Press in May 2027.

He has acted as an expert on cooperative law and digital governance for the ICA, BRAC Centre for Peace and Justice, the Scottish Parliament, the European Commission, NCBA Clusa International, the OECD, UNCTAD, UNIDROIT, and the UNDESA.