Allan McCay

Dr Allan McCay grew up in Scotland and after a spending number of years working in Hong Kong he now lives and works in Australia. He writes on free will and the law, criminal law, legal and ethical issues relating to emerging technologies (particularly neurotechnologies such as brain-computer interfaces), and the implications of artificial intelligence for the future of work.

His first book (with Michael Sevel), Free Will and the Law: New Perspectives is published by Routledge and his second book (with Nicole Vincent and Thomas Nadelhoffer) Neurointerventions and the Law: Regulating Human Mental Capacity is published by Oxford University Press. He has also 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.

He is Deputy Director of The Sydney Institute of Criminology and an Academic Fellow at the University of Sydney's Law School. He is a member of the Management Committee of the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence, also at the University of Sydney Law School, and at Macquarie University is an Affiliate Member of the Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics. He has previously 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 has been a visiting researcher at the philosophy departments of the University of California, Riverside, the University of Stirling, and the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford University.

With respect to media, his work has appeared in and/ or been discussed in Australian media sources including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian, and Radio National, and overseas/global media sources including The Independent (UK), The Statesman (India), The Huffington Post and The Conversation.

Allan has presented at events for the general public, the technology sector, academics, legal practitioners, executive government, and the judiciary.