Publications

2024

• McCay, A., Pushpapathan, H., Hamilton, T. (2024). Brain-computer interfaces, venture capital, and the many coming challenges to law. LSJ Online, (May 2024). [More Information]

• Marvin, S., McCay, A. (2024). Elon Musk’s brain implant company offers an intriguing glimpse of an internet connecting human minds. The Conversation.

• McCay, A. (2024). It’s time for the Australian Law Reform Commission to look at neurotechnology. The Bar News, Autumn 2024. [More Information]

• McCay, A. (2024). Neurotechnology and human rights in Chile: the Australian implications. In Moisés Sánchez; Ciro Colombara; Natalia Monti (Eds.), En Defensa de los Neuroderechos, (pp. 141-146). Hanga Roa, Chile: Kamanau.

• McCay, A. (2024). Neurotechnology and the insanity defence (forthcoming). In Crofts. T., Kennefick, L. and Loughnan, A. (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook on Criminal Responsibility. London: Routledge.

2023

• McCay, A. (2023). Vulcan, (pp. 38 - 41). Sydney, Australia: Frances St Press. [More Information]

• McCay, A. (2023). A Clockwork Orange Again? Science, Technology and Punishment. LSJ Online, 25 October 2023. [More Information]

• Alimardani, A., McCay, A., Lean, C. (2023). Big Data, Behavioral Genetics and Risk of Future Offending. Law, Technology and Humans, 5(2), 221-237. [More Information]

• McCay, A. (2023). Black Mirror Lawyering. Sydney Business Insights.

• McCay, A. (2023). Horizon Report for the Law Society: Neurotechnology, law and the legal profession - New Developments, (pp. 1 - 8). United Kingdom, United Kingdom: The Law Society of England and Wales. [More Information]

• Ligthart, S., Ienca, M., Meynen, G., Molnar-Gabor, F., Andorno, R., Bublitz, C., Catley, P., Claydon, L., Douglas, T., Farahany, N., McCay, A., et al (2023). Minding Rights: Mapping Ethical and Legal Foundations of 'Neurorights'. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 32(4), 461-481. [More Information]

• McCay, A. (2023). Neurotechnology and Human Rights in Chile: The Australian Implications. Law Society Journal.

• McCay, A. (2023). Neurotechnology and human rights: developments overseas and the challenge for Australia. Australian Journal of Human Rights, 29(1), 160-166. [More Information]

• McCay, A., Sharpe, M. (2023). Should Lawyers Care About Neurotech? Law Society Journal, July 2023, 59-66.

• McCay, A. (2023), Submission to the Inquiry into Australia's Human Rights Framework.

• Bain, M., McCay, A. (2023). The Neural Democratisation of AI (Forthcoming). AI and Society. [More Information]

• McCay, A., Sharpe, M. (2023). What is neurotechnology and why are lawyers getting involved? LSJ Online, 12 April. [More Information]

2022

• McCay, A. (2022), Crossroads, So Fi Zine #12. [More Information]

• McCay, A. (2022). Horizon Report for the Law Society: Neurotechnology, law and the legal profession, (pp. 7 - 28). United Kingdom: The Law Society of England and Wales.

• McCay, A. (2022). Mind control and human rights. Law Society Gazette, October 2022. [More Information]

• McCay, A. (2022). Neurorights: The Chilean Constitutional Change. AI and Society. [More Information]

• McCay, A. (2022). Vulcan. So Fi Zine, 10, (pp. 47 - 51). Sydney, Australia: So Fi Zine. [More Information]

• McCay, A. (2022). What does The Matrix have to do with human rights? LSJ Online, March 2022. [More Information]

2021

• McCay, A. (2021). Behavioural Genetics and Sentencing. In Farah Focquaert, Elizabeth Shaw, and Bruce N. Waller (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Science of Punishment, (pp. 262-273). Milton Park: Routledge. [More Information]

• McCay, A., Kennett, J. (2021). Neuroscience and Punishment: From Theory to Practice. Neuroethics, 14, 269-280. [More Information]

2020

• McCay, A. (2020). Alternative Possibilities. Philament, Sydney, Australia: The University of Sydney.

• McCay, A., Lean, C. (2020). Cousin took a DNA test? Courts might use it to argue you are more likely to commit crimes. The Conversation. [More Information]

• McCay, A., Kennett, J. (2020). Do criminals freely decide to commit crimes? How the courts decide. The Conversation. [More Information]

• Vincent, N., Nadelhoffer, T., McCay, A. (2020). Law Viewed Through the Lens of Neurointerventions. Neurointerventions and the Law: Regulating Human Mental Capacity, (pp. 1-30). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• McCay, A. (2020). Neurobionic Revenge Porn and the Criminal Law: Brain-Computer Interfaces and Intimate Image Abuse. Neurointerventions and the Law: Regulating Human Mental Capacity, (pp. 168-187). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Vincent, N., Nadelhoffer, T., McCay, A. (2020). Neurointerventions and the Law: Regulating Human Mental Capacity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]

2019

• McCay, A., Sevel, M. (2019). Free Will and the Law: New Perspectives. Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]

• McCay, A., Sevel, M. (2019). Introduction. In Allan McCay, Michael Sevel (Eds.), Free Will and the Law: New Perspectives, (pp. 1-15). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]

• McCay, A., Ryan, C. (2019). Issues pertaining to expert evidence and the reasoning about punishment in a neuroscience-based sentencing appeal. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 65(7-8), 1-7. [More Information]

• McCay, A. (2019). Might consciousness and free will be the aces up our sleeves when it comes to competing with robots? The Conversation. [More Information]

• McCay, A. (2019). Mitigation is difficult: A moral evaluation of a mitigation practice at sentencing. In Allan McCay, Michael Sevel (Eds.), Free Will and the Law: New Perspectives, (pp. 188-209). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]

2018

• McCay, A. (2018). The Value of Consciousness and Free Will in a Technological Dystopia. Journal of Evolution and Technology, 28(1), 18-30.

2016

• McCay, A. (2016). "Genetics, Crime and Justice" by Debra Wilson, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 28(2), 249-252.

• McCay, A., Kennett, J. (2016). My brain made me do it: will neuroscience change the way we punish criminals? The Conversation. [More Information]

2015

• McCay, A. (2015). Australian Courts Facing 'Crime Gene' Conundrum. HuffPost. [More Information]

2013

• McCay, A. (2013). Evil gene would make punishment a tricky business. The Sydney Morning Herald. [More Information]

• McCay, A. (2013). The "Fernando" Principles and Genetic Vulnerabilities to the Crimogenic Effects of Social Environments. Indigenous Law Bulletin, 8(6), 9-13.

2010

• McCay, A. (2010). Bad Luck and Compatibilism: Smilansky's Concerns About the "Shallowness of Compatibilism". In Friedrich Toepel (Eds.), Free Will in Criminal Law and Procedure: Proceedings of the 23rd and 24th IVR World Congress Krakow 2007 and Beijing 2009, (pp. 39-48). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.

2009

• McCay, A. (2009). "Negotiating Responsibility: Law Murder and States of Mind", Kimberley White, UBC Press, Vancouver, 2008. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 20(3), 492-493.

2008

• McCay, A. (2008). Our Debt to Vulcan. Philament, Sydney, Australia: The University of Sydney.