# Professor Rafael Dean Brown

> Legal skills teacher for more than 20 years, former US litigator, peace mediator and AI-law scholar. This site lists his scholarship (with abstracts), teaching method and digital study guides.

## Pages
- [About](https://lawprofbrown.com/about): biography, education, research interests
- [AI law](https://lawprofbrown.com/ai-law): AI law and regulation research, talks, and work on Qatar and the Middle East
- [Scholarship](https://lawprofbrown.com/scholarship): all publications with abstracts and links
- [Conferences](https://lawprofbrown.com/conferences): conference presentations and panels on AI law, international law and legal skills
- [Teaching](https://lawprofbrown.com/teaching): the five-step legal analysis method and courses taught
- [Teaching philosophy](https://lawprofbrown.com/teaching-philosophy): the Five R's and feedback to students
- [Study guides](https://lawprofbrown.com/guides): six PDF guides, one bundle, one free checklist
- [Legal writing](https://lawprofbrown.com/legal-writing)
- [Legal skills](https://lawprofbrown.com/legal-skills)
- [Directory](https://lawprofbrown.com/directory)
- [Contact](https://lawprofbrown.com/contact)

## Profiles
- [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Z76SEZ8AAAAJ&hl=en)
- [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6751-7176)
- [Scopus](https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57214653775)
- [ResearchGate](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rafael-Brown)

## Publications
- [Diplomacy in the age of AI: Legal and strategic approaches to techno-nationalism, regulatory soft power and the AI chips race](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resglo.2026.100335) (2026)
- [Regulatory Autonomy and AI Sovereignty: Türkiye at a Crossroad](https://doi.org/10.1017/als.2026.10055) (2026)
- [Decentralized Autonomous Organization and AI Legal Personhood](https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198945215.003.0051) (2025)
- [Enhancing the EU AI Act with CSR: the role of corporate social responsibility in AI regulation](https://doi.org/10.2478/bjes-2025-0034) (2025)
- [A Sandbox Approach to Regulating High-Risk Artificial Intelligence Applications](https://doi.org/10.1017/err.2021.52) (2021)
- [Property ownership and the legal personhood of artificial intelligence](https://doi.org/10.1080/13600834.2020.1861714) (2020)
- [Human digital thought clones: the Holy Grail of artificial intelligence for big data](https://doi.org/10.1080/13600834.2020.1850174) (2020)
- [Blockchain, climate damage, and death: Policy interventions to reduce the carbon emissions, mortality, and net-zero implications of non-fungible tokens and Bitcoin](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102499) (2022)
- [Banking on AI: mandating a proactive approach to AI regulation in the financial sector](https://doi.org/10.1080/17521440.2020.1760454) (2020)
- [Mending Lacunas in the EU’s GDPR and Proposed Artificial Intelligence Regulation](https://doi.org/10.2478/eustu-2022-0003) (2022)
- [Regulatory options for vehicle telematics devices: balancing driver safety, data privacy and data security](https://doi.org/10.1080/13600869.2023.2242671) (2023)
- [Legal Aspects of Telematics for Law Enforcement](https://doi.org/10.1163/15730255-bja10157) (2024)
- [Big Data Analytics and Its Impact on Basin Water Agreements and International Water Law: A Study of the Ramotswa Aquifer](https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004507623_002) (2021)
- [Materials Development in EALP Legal Writing Courses](https://doi.org/10.32038/ltrq.2020.15.03) (2020)
- [Language Acquisition Theory and Context in Materials Development for Second Language Writing Courses](https://doi.org/10.18823/asiatefl.2021.18.2.19.649) (2021)
- [Using Contrastive Rhetoric in Legal Writing Pedagogy](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3602290) (2020)
- [Towards a Qatar Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model with a Legislative Framework](https://doi.org/10.29117/irl.2018.0036) (2019)

## Study guides (Gumroad, USD)
- [Five Levels of Legal Analysis: The Law School Exam Guide](https://professorbrown.gumroad.com/l/five-levels-legal-analysis): $7.99
- [Five Levels + Case Briefing Bundle](https://professorbrown.gumroad.com/l/five-levels-case-briefing-bundle): $13.99
- [Legal Terminology Guide](https://professorbrown.gumroad.com/l/legal-terminology-guide): $12.99
- [LL.M. Success Guide](https://professorbrown.gumroad.com/l/llm-success-guide): $10.99
- [Case Reading and Briefing Guide](https://professorbrown.gumroad.com/l/case-reading-briefing-guide): $8.99
- [Legal Writing Guide](https://professorbrown.gumroad.com/l/legal-writing-guide): $10.99
- [Legal English for Law Students](https://professorbrown.gumroad.com/l/legal-english-law-students): $9.99
- [Foundations of U.S. Law Guide](https://professorbrown.gumroad.com/l/foundations-us-law-guide): $12.99
- [Five Levels Exam Checklist](https://professorbrown.gumroad.com/l/five-levels-exam-checklist): free