Law Lecturer, University of Sydney
Allan McCay teaches at the University of Sydney Foundation Program, and the University of Sydney Law School (again lecturing in Criminal Law in Semester 2, 2019). He is also an Affiliate Member of the Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics, at Macquarie University.
In the past he has taught at the Law School at the University of New South Wales, and the Business School at the University of Sydney. Allan trained as a solicitor in Scotland and has also practiced in Hong Kong with the global law firm Baker McKenzie.
He holds a PhD from the University of Sydney Law School and is interested in behavioural genetics, neuroscience, neurotechnology, and the criminal law. His philosophical interests relate to the free will problem, philosophy of punishment and philosophy of artificial intelligence.
He has been a visiting researcher at the philosophy departments of the University of California, Riverside, the University of Stirling, and also at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford University.
He has published in the journals Neuroethics, The Journal of Evolution and Technology, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, The International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, and The Indigenous Law Bulletin. His edited collection (with Michael Sevel), Free Will and the Law: New Perspectives is published by Routledge.
Elon Musk’s brain implant company offers an intriguing glimpse of an internet connecting human minds
Mar 18, 2024 09:02 am UTC| Business Technology
Elon Musks company called Neuralink, launched in 2016, aims to implant a piece of technology in peoples brains that would allow them to control a computer or phone by thought alone. This is otherwise known as a...
Cousin took a DNA test? Courts could use it to argue you are more likely to commit crimes
Jan 21, 2020 01:47 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
How similar do you think you are to your second cousin? Or your estranged great aunt? Would you like to have people assess your behaviour from what your great aunt has done? How would you feel if courts used data gained...
The Alberta government is interfering in public sector bargaining on an unprecedented scale
Putin’s Russia: first arrests under new anti-LGBT laws mark new era of repression
Canada needs a national strategy for homeless refugee claimants