Vincent Chiao

Selected Publications

“Unreasonably Hypothetical: What’s Wrong with S.12,” McGill Law Journal (forthcoming, co-authored with François Tanguay-Renaud)

“Must States Do It Themselves? A Rights-Based Theory of Delegating State Coercion,” Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy 31(3) (2026): 442-68 (peer reviewed)

“Excess incarceration,” Journal of Applied Philosophy 42(4) (2025): 1210-29 (peer reviewed), https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.70018.

“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 15(4) (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).

“Proportionality and Its Discontents,” Law and Philosophy 41 (2022): 193-217. doi.org/10.1007/s10982-021-09423-9. Peer reviewed. Cited by the Supreme Court of Canada, Quebec (Attorney General) v Denis, 2026 SCC 25

“Hyperlexis and the Rule of Law,” Legal Theory 27(2) (2021): 126-48. Peer reviewed.

“Algorithmic decision-making when humans disagree on ends,” with Kiel Brennan-Marquez, New Criminal Law Review24(3) (2021): 275-300.

“Corruption and the Criminal Law: Assurance and Deterrence,” University of Toronto Law Journal 71 (2021): 8-34.

Criminal Law in the Age of the Administrative State (Oxford University Press, 2018).

"Reply to Critics," Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 17(1) (2018): 158-175 - symposium issue dedicated to Criminal Law in the Age of the Administrative State.