About

I am a Lecturer (Senior Lecturer from 1 January 2021) in Public Law and Legal Theory and the Research Director of the Law and Technology Hub at the University of Surrey School of Law. I am also:

• a member of the Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy,
• a Research Associate of the University of Oxford Centre for Technology and Global Affairs, and
• a Research Associate of the University of Oxford Programme for the Foundations of Law and Constitutional Government.

Previously, I taught Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, European Union Law and Roman Law at the University of Oxford. I was also a Visiting Scholar at the University of Melbourne. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

I specialise in law & technology, public law (constitutional and administrative law), and in legal theory (philosophy of law).

As a former computer programmer, I am interested in connections between law and technology, both from practical and philosophical perspectives. Some of my current research projects include:

• empirical analysis of litigation before the UK Supreme Court (with Python, Pandas, and a graph database), see courts.barczentewicz.com
• using machine learning for predictive analytics in UK law (predicting court case outcomes),
• law and policy solutions to problems of data security (cybersecurity) and privacy.

I am also pursuing projects on Brexit (disentangling UK and European Union law, constitutional consequences of Brexit) and on the role of fundamental rights and principles in statutory interpretation.

I published in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the Law Quarterly Review, Public Law, Notre Dame Law Review Online and in several edited collections. I also blog (e.g., at the UK Constitutional Law Blog and at I·CONnect ). (For details see my Publications page.)

Education

• University of Oxford, University College
  • D.Phil. in Law, 2020: Constitutional Change and the Rule of Recognition
  • M.Phil. in Law, with distinction, 2014: Unconstitutional Constitutional Change
  • M.Jur., with distinction, 2013
• University of Warsaw
  • Magister prawa (Polish law degree), 2011

How to pronounce my name

• [mʲiˈkɔwaj] or simply [me-koh-why]

Contact

• The School of Law, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, United Kingdom
• m.barczentewicz[to-delete]@surrey[to-delete].ac.uk

My other online places

• @MBarczentewicz on Twitter
• SSRN
• LinkedIn
• Oxford Law Faculty profile
• Surrey School of Law profile

Selected Publications

• ‘The Illuminati Problem and Rules of Recognition’ (2018) 38 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 500–527 SSRN Oxford University Press
• ‘Judicial Duty Not to Apply EU Law’ (2017) 133 Law Quarterly Review 469 SSRN Westlaw UK