Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in:
- Criminal law
- Comparative criminal justice policy and practices
- Sentencing and corrections
- Punishment and society
Public outreach & key achievements
- Fellow of the Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at the University of Minnesota Law School, United States https://robinainstitute.umn.edu/people/alessandro-corda
- Co-founder and co-coordinator of the Working Group on Collateral Consequences of Criminal Records within the European Society of Criminology https://www.esc-eurocrim.org/index.php/activities/working-groups/71-working-group-on-collateral-consequences-of-criminal-records
- Academic adviser, Collateral Consequences Resource Center, United States https://ccresourcecenter.org/
- Member of the Anglo-German-Dialogue Project on the foundational principles and concepts of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice https://www.department-ambos.uni-goettingen.de/index.php/anglo-german-dialogue
- Member of the Collaborative Research Network CRN 27 - Punishment and Society within the Law and Society Association, United States http://punishment-society.blogspot.com/p/members.html
- Visiting Professor in the School of Law at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
Research students
| PhD area |
Genetic ownership: A critical analysis of key legal, social and bioethical debates concerning genetic ownership and the rights of the individual with implications for the criminal justice system |
| Name | Gillian Keilty |
| PhD area | Criminal law and the autistic defendant: Solving the tension between the objective nature of criminal liability and emerging theories on neurodiversity |
| Name | Matthew McCallion |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD area |
Making sense of Saudi Arabian personal bankruptcy law |
| Name | Dr Hassan Almatrafi |
| Years of study | PhD awarded 2019 |
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- Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
- School of Law
- Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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