Prof. Scott J. Shapiro
“We'll become babysitters to our own replacements.”
Scott J. Shapiro is the Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and professor of philosophy at Yale Law School. His scholarship spans the philosophy of law, international and criminal law, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. Shapiro is the author of "Legality" (2011); "The Internationalists" (2017, with Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law Oona Hathaway ’97); and "Fancy Bear Goes Phishing" (2023). He also co-edited "The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law" (2002, with Jules Coleman). He serves as co-editor of "Legal Theory" and the "Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy," and his commentary has appeared in outlets such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Foreign Affairs. Shapiro co-founded the Yale Legal AI Lab, focused on the automation of legal reasoning. From 2024 to 2025, he was Special Assistant for AI Ethics to the Chief AI Officer at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.