Email: aiethics@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
Biography
I came to Corpus as a tutor in philosophy in 1998 where I spent just over eleven happy years. I had previously studied philosophy and law at the University of Melbourne, and came to Oxford in 1989 as a Rhodes Scholar where I completed my doctorate under the supervision of Joseph Raz. I was the first person in my family to attend university. My first academic job prior to Corpus was at the University of Glasgow.
Since leaving Corpus in 2011 I have held chairs at University College London and King’s College London. I am currently Professor of Ethics and Legal Philosophy in Oxford’s Faculty of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Ethics in AI.
Research
My research is in the general areas of moral, legal, and political philosophy. I have written on such topics as human rights, punishment, international law, and the ethics of artificial intelligence and digital technology.
Publications
On Justice and Mercy: Essays in Moral and Legal Philosophy (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2020) (editor)
‘Saving Human Rights from Human Rights Law’, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 52 (2019), pp.1167-1207
‘The Inflation of Concepts’, Aeon (28 January 2021)
'Artificial Intelligence, Humanistic Ethics’, Daedalus (2022) 151(2): 232-243.