Amin Ebrahimi Afrouzi

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Assistant Professor of Law

Email: contact_amin@yahoo.com

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COURSES TAUGHT

Private Law Subjects
AI and Law
Legal Interpretation

EDUCATION

University of California, Berkeley，BA
University of Oxford, Christ Church College，Master’s in Ancient Philosophy
University of Cambridge, St. Catharine’s College, Master’s in Classics
University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy
University of California at Berkeley, J.D.

BIO

Amin Ebrahimi Afrouzi（义安悯）is a philosopher, legal scholar, and technologist. He previously held a Law & Philosophy Fellowship at UCLA and the Knight Digital Public Sphere Fellowship at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, where he remains a lifetime fellow. Amin received his BA, JD, and PhD from UC Berkeley. He also holds two master’s degrees from Christ Church College, Oxford, and St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge. Amin is the inventor of various patented or patent-pending AI and robotics technologies. His publications have appeared in Legal Theory, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, and the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, among others.

Publications: 2026  Why AI Shouldn’t Govern Us, Even if It Could, AI & Society, 41 (2), 1297-1298.

2024  Leveling Down Legal Resources: Why Epistemic Arguments Fail, Legal Theory 30(2), 71 (“Highly recommended” on Prof. Larry Solum’s Legal Theory Blog).

2024  John Robots, Thurgood Martian, and the Syntax Monster, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 37(2), 369.

2023  On Role-Reversible Judgments and Related Democratic Objections to AI Judges, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 114 (Online), 23.

2023  An Egalitarian Challenge to Increasing Epistemic Value in Democracy, Synthese 202, 74 (with Julian F. Müller, equal contributions).

2022  Why the Semantic Canons Don’t Tip the Balance in Statutory Interpretation, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 42(3), 869.

2021  Is Mohism really Utilitarianism? Asian Philosophy, 31(4), 430 (with Yun Wu, equal contributions).

2020  The Mohist Notion of Universal Justice, Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 19, 269 (with Yun Wu, equal contributions).

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