Professor of Criminal Justice, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford

Professor Lucia Zedner is Professor of Criminal Justice in the Faculty of Law, and Law Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Her research interests span criminal justice, criminal law, and legal theory. From her first book on the history of imprisonment, she has gone on to write several books and many articles on criminal justice and penal policy, sentencing, victims, security and terrorism.

Recent work has focused upon the pursuit of security by public and private actors and its implications for the role of the state. Her writings on security includes a number of articles and book chapters on such issues as the balancing of security and liberty in the war on terror; security measures against terrorist suspects; the role of new security technologies; the market for private security services; a book on the concept of security; and an article which considers whether we can have ‘Too Much Security?'

She was formerly a student and then Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College Oxford (1984-89) and a lecturer at the London School of Economics (1989-94). From 2003-2005 she held a British Academy Research Readership; from 2006-2008 she was Director of Graduate Studies (Research) for the Law Faculty; and from 2005-08 she served on the Research College of the Economic and Social Science Research Council. She was elected a Fellow of The British Academy in 2012. She has held visiting fellowships at universities in Germany, Israel, America, and Australia. Since 2007 she has also held the position of Conjoint Professor in the Law Faculty at the University of New South Wales, Sydney where she is a regular visitor.

She has served on the editorial boards of many journals: currently these include the Criminal Law Review, European Journal of Criminology, International Journal of Criminal Law Education, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, and the Oxford Comparative Law Forum.