John Tasioulas

2020 - present | Director of the Institute for Ethics in AI, Professor of Ethics and Legal Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. |
2014 - 2020 |
Yeoh Professor of Politics, Philosophy and Law, and Director of the Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre for Politics, Philosophy, and Law, Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London. |
2011 - 2014 | Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, Faculty of Laws, University College London. |
1998 - 2010 | Reader in Moral and Legal Philosophy, University of Oxford; Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Corpus Christi College. |
1992 - 1998 | Lecturer in Jurisprudence, University of Glasgow. |
1996 | D.Phil, Balliol College, Oxford. |
1989 | B.A.(Hons)/LLB(Hons), University of Melbourne. |
Visiting positions held at Harvard University, the University of Chicago, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Melbourne.
‘The Uneasy Relationship Between Human Rights and Public Health: Lessons from Covid-19’, in J. Savulescu and D. Wilkinson (eds), Pandemic Ethics: From COVID-19 to Disease X (forthcoming, 2022) |
‘The Rule of Algorithm and the Rule of Law’, in Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy (forthcoming, 2022). |
‘The Philosophy of International Law’, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (with G. Verdirame) (May 12, 2022) https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/international-law/ |
‘Artificial Intelligence, Humanistic Ethics’, Daedalus (2022) 151(2): 232-243. https://www.amacad.org/sites/default/files/daedalus/downloads/Daedalus_Sp22_AI%20%26%20Society_1.pdf |
‘The Liberalism of Love’, in T. Brooks, Political Emotions: Towards a Decent Public Sphere (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp.133-153. |
'The role of the arts and humanities in thinking about artificial intelligence (AI)', Ada Lovelace Institute Blog, June 14, 2021. |
‘’Fantasy Upon Fantasy’: Some Reflections on Dworkin’s Philosophy of International Law’, Jus Cogens (2021). |
‘The Inflation of Concepts’, Aeon (January 28th, 2021), (Chinese translation in online Confucian magazine Rujiawang). |
‘Sumption on Law, Democracy, and Human Rights’, Kings Law Journal 31 (2020): 467- 479. |
Editor, The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2020). |
‘The Rule of Law’, in J. Tasioulas (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2020). |
‘Just Global Health: Integrating Human Rights and Common Goods’, in T. Brooks (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Global Justice (OUP, 2020) (with E. Vayena), pp.139-162. |
‘Saving Human Rights from Human Rights Law’, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 52 (2019), pp.1167-1207 |
‘First Steps Towards an Ethics of Robots and Artificial Intelligence’, Journal of Practical Ethics 7 (2019), pp. 61-95. |
‘Philosophizing the Real World of Human Rights: A Reply to Samuel Moyn’, in A. Etinson (ed.), Human Rights: Moral or Political? (OUP, 2018), pp.88-102. |
‘Exiting the Hall of Mirrors: Morality and Law in Human Rights’, in K. Bourne and T. Campbell (eds.) Political and Legal Approaches to Human Rights (Routledge, 2017), pp.73-89. |
Minimum Core Obligations: Human Rights in the Here and Now, (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2017). Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO. |
‘Custom, Jus Cogens and Human Rights’, in C. Bradley (ed.), Custom’s Future: International Law in a Changing World (CUP, 2016), pp.95-116. |
‘On the Foundations of Human Rights’, in R. Cruft, M. Liao, and M. Renzo (eds.), Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights (OUP, 2015), pp.45-70. |
Moral, legal, and political philosophy. Special interests in the philosophy of human rights, democracy, punishment, the ethics of AI, and the philosophy of international law. |