Julius Hattingh is a New Zealand J.S.D. candidate at Yale Law School. He holds an LL.M. from Yale (2025) and an LL.B. (Hons) and B.A. in psychology and philosophy from the University of Auckland (2019). Before coming to Yale, Julius practiced IP and technology law in New Zealand and tutored jurisprudence at the University of Auckland. He recently completed a Summer Research Fellowship at The Institute for Law & AI. He is a resident fellow of the Yale Information Society Project.
Julius' research explores the intersection of law, philosophy, technology, and human behavior. His dissertation focuses on legal authority, rule-breaking, methods of law enforcement, and the relationship between illegality and impossibility.
Doctoral committee
Daniel Markovits (chair), Gideon Yaffe (reader), Tom Tyler (reader)
Education
LL.M. Yale Law School
LL.B. (Hons) / B.A. Conjoint (Philosophy and Psychology), University of Auckland
Contact Information
julius.hattingh@yale.edu