Jason Rix
Knowledge Counsel
London
Jason Rix
Knowledge Counsel
London
Contact details
Jason has a varied commercial litigation practice which includes AI liability, conflict of laws, contract law, data protection, digital assets, group litigation, privilege, state immunity and the legal implications of Brexit.
A while back now, Jason was seconded to BT. This experience still serves as a vivid reminder of what it is like in-house.
He is the UK delegation expert to the European private law committee of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE). He has participated in several working committees of the Financial Markets Law Committee covering a variety of topics: Distributed Ledger Technology and Governing Law: Issues of Legal Uncertainty (2018), Response: Law Commission Call for Evidence on Digital Assets (2021), Duties of Good Faith in Wholesale Financial Contracts (2022), Distributed Autonomous Organisations (Ongoing)
In 2016, he set up Compact Contract (www.aocompactcontract.com) a blog focused on English contract law contract law and he’s part of A&O’s future disputes group.
Qualifications
Professional
Admitted as solicitor, England and Wales, 2001
Solicitor-Advocate (Higher Courts Civil Proceedings)
Academic
BA Law, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, 1997
MA, Law, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, 2001
LPC, 1998
Related articles
Publications: 03 October 2023
Real-world disputes in the virtual world
The laws that govern the metaverse are grounded in those of Planet Earth. Private civil laws relating to contract, tort, IP and data privacy all bite, as do criminal and regulatory laws. Where the…
Publications: 03 October 2023
Legal liability of AI: Dealing with minds immeasurably superior to ours
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Future disputes risks: How ready is business for the challenges that lie ahead?
Qualifications
Professional
Admitted as solicitor, England and Wales, 2001
Solicitor-Advocate (Higher Courts Civil Proceedings)
Academic
BA Law, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, 1997
MA, Law, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, 2001
LPC, 1998
Pro Bono
- GROW mentor
Published Work
- Rix J (2019) “Discretion is the better part of valour”, Commercial Litigation Journal, Co. L.J. 2019, 83(Jan/Feb), 11-13
