Dr John Zerilli
Senior Lecturer in Digital Law | Programme Director LLM in Digital Law (Online)
Dr John Zerilli is a philosopher and legal scholar with interests in cognitive science and artificial intelligence. He is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Law at King’s College London and Programme Director of King’s online LL.M. in Digital Law. Dr Zerilli started off his career as a judicial clerk and spent three years as a lawyer before changing careers, earning a Ph.D. in cognitive science and philosophy, and then carrying out research at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Edinburgh.
He was called to the Sydney bar in 2011. His published work appears in such journals as Philosophy of Science, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, and Synthese. His two most recent books are The Adaptable Mind (Oxford University Press, 2020) and A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence (MIT Press, 2021).