Andrew Bowne

Dr. Andrew Bowne teaches Artificial Intelligence Law and Policy as a professorial lecturer in law. He has served as an United States Air Force Judge Advocate since 2010 and has been assigned as the Chief Legal Counsel of the Department of the Air Force Artificial Intelligence Accelerator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as the Deputy Staff Judge Advocate at Vandenberg Space Force Base, as a prosecutor at Royal Air Force Lakenheath in the United Kingdom, and deployed as the NATO Rule of Law Team Chief in Helmand province, Afghanistan, and other positions in the Department of Defense. He has previously taught contract law, emerging technologies, intellectual property, and national security law at the Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School in Charlottesville, VA, and has been a guest lecturer and speaker at universities around the world. Dr. Bowne has advised senior leaders in the executive and legislative branches on the legal implications of artificial intelligence, military use of space, defense engagement with industry, and intellectual property strategy. He was an author for the Section 809 Panel's recommendations, the AI Acquisition Guidebook, the Other Transactions Guide, and numerous policies and strategies within the Department of Defense, as well as publications on artificial intelligence, acquisition and contract law, intellectual property, other transaction authority, and security cooperation, covering legal, operational, and technical domains. He is a member of the State Bar of California and is admitted to practice before the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals, the Army Court of Criminal Appeals, the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, and the United States Supreme Court.