Professor Alexandra Andhov

Professor Alexandra Andhov holds a joint appointment in the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Auckland.

Professor Andhov works at the intersection of law, technology and business, where innovation constantly outpaces regulation.

As the inaugural Chair in Law and Technology at the University of Auckland, she tackles questions as: How should we regulate blockchain? What does corporate governance look like when AI enters the boardroom? Where do we draw the line between fintech innovation and financial stability? How do we keep Big Tech accountable?

Her research spans across corporate law, capital markets, fintech, legal tech, and emerging technologies. She has published extensively with leading law journals across Europe and the U.S., and publishers as Cambridge University Press or Hart Publishing. Two works capture her approach: Computational Law, which examines how computational thinking reshapes legal reasoning, and Fallacies in Corporate and Financial Law, which questions long-held assumptions in the field.

Her most recent book on Big Tech will be published with Cambridge University Press in 2026.

A Fulbright Scholar and recipient of Denmark’s Inge Lehmann Grant, Professor Andhov brings both academic rigour and practical experience to these challenges. She advises governments and private organisations on regulatory design, helping translate complex legal frameworks into workable solutions.

Beyond academia, she’s active in the start-up ecosystem as an advisor and contributes regularly to Forbes. In education, she has developed innovative courses on start-up law, blockchain regulation, and computational law, work that has earned her multiple teaching awards.

She’s also a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School and an International Affiliated Scholar with the Blockchain Law for Social Good Center in San Francisco.

Selected publications

• “Hidden Fallacies in Corporate Law and Financial Regulation: Reframing the Mainstream Narratives” – Edited Volume co-edited with Professors Saule Omarova & Claire Hill (2025, Hart Publishing)
• “Future-Proof Legal Services: How Innovation, Legal Tech and AI Have Been Reshaping the Legal Market” (2025, Hart Publishing) – Book chapter co-authored with O. Kokoulina on the transformation of legal services
• “OpenAI’s Transformation: From a Non-profit to a 100 Billion Valuation” (March 2024, SSRN) – Highly downloaded paper (991 downloads, 7,552+ views) examining OpenAI’s evolution from non-profit to commercial powerhouse / later version published with Business Law Review
• “Computational Law” (2022, Karnov) – Explores the intersection of computational and legal thinking
• “The Digitalisation of Corporate Governance” in Instruments of EU Corporate Governance Effecting Changes in the Management of Companies in a Changing World (Wolters Kluwer, 2023)
• “Startup Law” (Edward Elgar, 2020) – Edited volume provides insights into regulatory frameworks of five leading innovation jurisdictions
• “Corporations on Blockchain: Opportunities & Challenges” in Cornell International Law Journal (2020)