Lecturer in Human Rights Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford

Dr Liora Lazarus is a University Lecturer in Human Rights Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford. Her primary research interests are in comparative human rights, security and human rights, comparative theory and comparative criminal justice.

Dr Lazarus came to Oxford in 1995 to write her doctorate at Balliol College, after which she went on to become a law fellow at St Anne's College. She is the author of a number of academic books, chapters and articles on prisoners' rights, criminal justice and security and human rights. She has also completed a number of public reports on various aspects of human rights for the UK Ministry of Justice, The UK Stern Review into the treatment of Rape Complaints, and the European Union Parliament.

She is an Associate Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub, and is actively involved in the work of Oxford Pro Bono Publico (which she co-founded) and the Oxford Transitional Justice Research Group. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Gilbert and Tobin Centre for Public Law at UNSW, Sydney; a research associate at Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town, and an Associate Member of the Institute of Cultural Inquiry in Berlin. Liora is the book review editor of the European Human Rights Law Review, and sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Human Rights Practice. She is also on the Advisory Board of Oxford's Centre for Ethics and Law in Armed Conflict.