Max Williams

Profile

Biography

Max Wiliams

LLB (York), LLM (York), MA (York)

Postgraduate Researcher / PBL Tutor

I joined York Law School as an undergraduate student in 2016. I completed my LLB in 2019 and my LLM in 2020 before securing a PhD studentship fully funded by the Law School in 2021. I have since completed an MA in Social Research with the Research Centre for Social Sciences, and I am currently working on my thesis.

Alongside my research, I am also a PBL tutor.

Research

Overview

My thesis responds to the rapidly increasing use of artificial intelligence in online journalism. It is concerned with the normative challenges posed by artificial intelligence on the existing law of defamation defences. The thesis analyses the law in context, drawing on knowledge and materials from other humanities and social sciences to determine whether the normative principles that explain the operation of defamation law presently can be sustained when a non-human actor is the source of the claimant’s reputational harm.

Publications

Selected publications

• Max Williams, 'Dworkin's Gift to Constitutional Jurisprudence: Justifying the Moral Reading of the U.S. Constitution' (2021) 2 York Law Review 153-190.

Teaching

Undergraduate

Year 1 PBL
Year 2 PBL
Legal Concepts