Dr Kim Leontiev

Kim Leontiev is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Ethics of Predictive Technologies within Oxford Uehiro. His work has addressed normative conflicts and public disagreements concerning justice and value, including equality, fairness, democracy, and human rights. He is particularly interested in law as a distinctive mode of political power and developing from this a framework for resolving ethical challenges laterally via practical/regulatory legitimacy constraints. Kim holds his PhD and MPhil in philosophy from University College London (UCL) and an LLB (Hons. I) from the University of Sydney. Kim is admitted to legal practice as a solicitor and barrister of the Federal Court and the High Court of Australia and worked in top-tier Australian firms concentrating on commercial, intellectual property and technology law as well as engaging in pro bono work for organisations aiding refugees, Indigenous groups and those at risk of homelessness.