Dr Robert Mullins
Senior Lecturer
TC Beirne School of Law
Affiliate of Australian Centre for Private Law
Australian Centre for Private Law
+61 7 334 67229
W256 Forgan Smith Building, St Lucia campus.
Researcher biography
Robert Mullins holds a BPhil in Philosophy and a DPhil in Law from the University of Oxford. His research expertise is in legal philosophy and the theory of legal reasoning. Much of Robert's published work investigates the implications of different accounts of the meaning and use of deontic language developed by logicians and linguists for the understanding of legal rights, obligations, and authority relations. His most recent work focuses on logics of common law reasoning developed by scholars in Artificial Intelligence and Law.
Dr Mullins currently serves as Reviews Editor of the peer-reviewed professional journal, Law and Philosophy. He is an Associate Member of the ARC Centre for Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society.
| Featured projects | Duration |
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Rights in Private Law Reasoning The University of Queensland |
2016–2017 |
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Rights in Artificial Intelligence The University of Queensland |
2016–2017 |
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The Automation of Case-Based Reasoning in Law UQ Early Career Researcher Grant |
2020 |