Dr John Zerilli
Senior Lecturer in Digital Law | Programme Director LLM in Digital Law (Online)
Dr John Zerilli is a legal scholar and philosopher working in the areas of cognitive science and artificial intelligence. He is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Law at King’s College London and Program Director of King’s online LL.M. in Digital Law.
Dr Zerilli works on various aspects of digital law, including copyright and patent law, and has a special interest in both the law of obligations (particularly torts) and administrative 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. During his time as a barrister, he accepted briefs to advise and appear in many civil cases, especially in equity and commercial law. He also advised on a number of administrative and public law matters.
Dr Zerilli is a Research Associate in the Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford and an Associate Fellow in the Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge.
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).