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Vincent Chiao
Jackman Law Building
Room J332
78 Queen's Park
Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C5
My research interests are in public law, with a particular focus on the philosophy of criminal law. In addition, I write on the ethical implications of emerging technologies in legal contexts, as well as normative social and legal theory more broadly. I am the author of Criminal Law in the Age of the Administrative State (OUP 2018). Themes in my ongoing work include: the place of law in formal and informal social orders; punishment and the evolution of cooperation; and the rule of law as a social technology.
I recently appeared on the Jean Monnet Center's JUST-AI podcast to discuss AI and procedural fairness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-CQJMEuf-4
See also the Law & Philosophy focus area.
“The rule of law after the Anthropocene,” forthcoming in Artificial Intelligence, Humans, and the Law, J Slosser & H Palmer Olsen, eds (2025).
“Content moderation online: ex ante versus ex post,” with Alon Harel, University of Illinois Law Review (2023): 1587-1606
“Disobedience as such,” with Alon Harel, Jurisprudence (2024): 1-18. Peer reviewed.
“Algorithmic decision-making, statistical evidence & the rule of law,” Episteme (2023): 1-24. doi:10.1018/epi.2023.27. Peer reviewed.
“Explainability and the Epistemic Division of Labour in Adjudication,” with Martin Heslop, University of Toronto Law Journal 73(1) (2023): 73-91.
“From the Philosophy of Punishment to the Philosophy of Criminal Justice,” with Javier Wilenmann, in The Palgrave Handbook on the Philosophy of Punishment, M Altman, ed (2022).
“Realism and the rational administration of the law in Beccaria,” in Re-Reading Beccaria, A du Bois-Pedain & S Eldar, eds (2022)