https://www.massimorenzo.com/

Massimo Renzo is the Yeoh Professor of Politics, Philosophy & Law at the Dickson Poon School of Law, where he directs the YTL Centre for Politics, Philosophy and Law. He has held visiting appointments at the Australian National University, the universities of Virginia, Arizona, and North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Murphy Institute, the National University of Singapore and the Nathanson Centre for Transnational Human Rights, Crime & Security.

Professor Renzo is an affiliated researcher at the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War & Peace and the Honorary Secretary of the Society for Applied Philosophy. He is also one of the editors of the journals Law and Philosophy and Criminal Law & Philosophy.

Before joining King’s, Professor Renzo was an Associate Professor in the philosophy department at the University of Warwick and before then a Lecturer at the York Law School.

Research interests

Professor Renzo works primarily in moral, legal and political philosophy. He has written about political authority, international justice and the philosophical foundations of the criminal law. He is currently interested in practical agency, with a focus on the notions of autonomy, responsibility and meaning in life. His recent work has focused on normative powers and various issues at the intersection of philosophy of action, moral philosophy and legal philosophy. He also has an interest in issues related to technology, social media and disinformation.

He convenes the Lecture Series in Practical Agency and, together with Todd Karhu, KJuris.

Professor Renzo is the recipient of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship and of the Gregory Kavka/UCI Prize in Political Philosophy. He is also a Principal Investigator in REPHRAIN, a UKRI Research Centre of Excellence on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online. 

Professor Renzo is happy to discuss PhD proposals falling within his research interests with prospective applicants.