Andrew (Sandy) Askland is Director of the Center for Study of Law, Science, & Technology at the College of Law, where he teaches courses in Privacy and Economics and the Law. He also has research interests in Environmental Ethics and Bioethics and in Moral and Political Theory generally.

Askland is a member of the American Philosophical Association and served on the program committee of its Pacific Division. Prior to his arrival at the College in 1999, he was a visiting professor at the University of Guam and at Vilnius University in Lithuania, and he was an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado. Askland also has worked as a Foreign Service Officer, with postings in Mexico, the Legal Advisor's Office and Bahrain, an Assistant Public Defender in Rockville, Md., a political consultant and an attorney in private practice.

Askland is a regular hiker and backpacker, canyoneer and whitewater rafter and a frequent sailor.