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Dr Connal Parsley is an Associate Professor (Reader) in Law at the University of Kent’s Kent Law School and holds a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship. He specializes in interdisciplinary legal studies, focusing on technosocial evolution, automated decision-making, and the philosophical underpinnings of law. His research explores the intersection of law with technology, critical theory, and creative practice. He holds a PhD and LLB from the University of Melbourne and previously practiced commercial and constitutional law with the Australian Government Solicitor.
Key professional roles include membership on international advisory boards for journals like Law and Critique, editorial roles in legal publications, and co-leadership of the Centre for Critical Thought at Kent. His current 7-year project, ‘The Future of Good Decisions’, investigates normative principles for human-AI administrative systems with £1.25M funding. He has supervised over 8 PhD/LLM students, including Sophie Rogers’ work on medical decision-making algorithms.
Notable achievements include launching the AHRC-funded ‘Law and the Human’ network and translating major works by Italian philosophers like Roberto Esposito. His research outputs span law, technology, and cultural studies, with recent publications addressing facial recognition law, legal positivism critiques, and interdisciplinary methodologies.
