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Christian Twigg-Flesner is a Professor of Contract and Consumer Law at the University of Warwick's School of Law, where he also serves as Deputy Head of School and Director of Teaching and Learning. He holds a PhD from the University of Sheffield (2002) and has held academic positions at the Universities of Nottingham Trent, Sheffield, and Hull, where he was Professor of Commercial Law and Head of Law School (2012–2014). His research focuses on the intersection of digital technology with contract and consumer law, including topics like AI-driven contracts, 3D printing legal frameworks, and the EU's evolving consumer policy landscape. He is a Fellow of the European Law Institute and serves as Managing Editor of the Journal of Consumer Policy.
Twigg-Flesner's key publications include Rethinking EU Consumer Law (2017), Foundations of International Commercial Law (2021), and co-edited volumes on European consumer policy. His recent work addresses legal challenges posed by automation, digital assistants, and the 'cyborg society'—exploring how traditional legal frameworks must adapt to technological disruption. He chairs initiatives like the ELI's Model Rules on Digital Assistants for Consumer Contracts, shaping global policy debates on digital fairness and consumer protection.
His research themes include functional equivalence in automated transactions, legal disruption from AI, and the transformation of consumer contracts from transactional tools to governance networks. He has advised on post-Brexit UK consumer law reforms and contributed to EU directives on product liability in the digital age.
