Vincent Chiao

Assistant Professor

Flavelle House
Room 214
78 Queen's Park
Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C5

Tel.: 416-978-4901
Email: vincent.chiao@utoronto.ca

Research interests
Criminal Law 
Criminal Procedure and Evidence
Legal Theory
Political Philosophy and Theory

Courses

Publications

See also Professor Chiao's SSRN page.

Vincent Chiao, B.A. (University of Virginia), Ph.D. (Northwestern), J.D. (Harvard), researches and teaches primarily in the area of criminal law and criminal justice, with a particular interest in the philosophical examination of its doctrine and institutions. Prior to joining the faculty in 2011, he was a law clerk for the Hon. Juan R. Torruella of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and a Reginald F. Lewis Fellow at Harvard Law School.

His research has appeared in Legal Theory, Criminal Law and Philosophy, the New Criminal Law Review and Law and Philosophy.

Education
B.A. - University of Virginia (1998)
Ph.D. - Northwestern (philosophy) (2006)
J.D. - Harvard Law School (2008)
Awards and distinctions
Reginald F. Lewis Fellow, Harvard Law School (2008-2010)
Selected Publications

Punishment and Permissibility in the Criminal Law, forthcoming in Law & Philosophy; available at http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s10982-012-9166-x

Ex ante fairness in criminal law and procedure, 15(2) New Criminal Law Review 277 (2012)

Intention and Attempt, 4 Criminal Law and Philosophy 37 (2010)

Action and Agency in the Criminal Law, 15 Legal Theory 1 (2009)