Kamil Mamak

Kamil Mamak, Ph.D.

Associate Professor · Jagiellonian University

Kamil Mamak is an Associate Professor, philosopher and legal scholar at the Jagiellonian University. He is an ERC laureate (Starting Grant): "Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law in the Age of Robots". He was a postdoctoral researcher at the RADAR: Robophilosophy, AI Ethics and Datafication research group at the University of Helsinki in 2021–2024. He is also a Member of the Board of the Cracow Institute of Criminal Law. He holds PhDs in law (2018) from Jagiellonian University and in philosophy (2020) from the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków. He has authored five book monographs, including "Robotics, AI and Criminal Law: Crimes against Robots" (Routledge, 2023) and "Ethics in Human-like Robots" (Routledge, 2024). He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and contributed chapters. He is a recipient of the Minister's Scholarship for Outstanding Young Scientists and the Scientific Award of Polityka weekly 2023.

Recent Publications

  • 2024Ethics in Human-like Robots, Routledge.
  • 2023Robotics, AI and Criminal Law: Crimes against Robots, Routledge.
  • 2026In defense of artificial suffering. Philosophical Studies. DOI
  • 2026Disinformation and Superspreaders. Episteme. DOI
  • 2026AI Animal Communication: A Potential Source of Moral Revolution. Topoi. DOI
  • 2026Are sentencing disparities unavoidable? Journal of Criminal Justice DOI
  • 2025Robot Kingdom: On the Difficulty of Finding the Definition of Robots. International Journal of Social Robotics. DOI
  • 2025AI Personhood, Criminal Law, and Punishment. In Oxford Intersections: AI in Society. DOI.
  • 2024AGI crimes? AI & Society. DOI

For more publications see: Google Scholar

Awards & Grants

ERC Starting Grant

Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law in the Age of Robots

→ Project website

Scientific Award of Polityka 2023

Category: Philosophy / Law

Minister's Scholarship

For Outstanding Young Scientists, Poland

National Science Center

"Preludium" Research grant, Poland

Contact

Institution
Jagiellonian University
Faculty of Law and Administration
Kraków, Poland

Email
kamil.mamak@uj.edu.pl

ORCID
0000-0002-5081-792X

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