Jason Byas

Jason Byas is a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He earned an MA in Philosophy at Georgia State University, and a BA in Philosophy & Sociology from the University of Oklahoma. He was an Adam Smith Fellow during the 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2021-2022, and 2022-2023 academic years and a Don Lavoie Fellow during the the 2020-2021 acadmic year. His research interests include understanding how criminal punishment, as it is conventionally understood, is defective as a means of accountability. In particular, his research studies the important moral purpose served by criminal punishment in providing accountability for egregious wrongdoing, and exploring other ways that this moral purpose could be achieved.