Email: lucia.zedner@law.ox.ac.uk

Personal Biography 

I wrote my DPhil and held a post-doctoral Prize Research Fellowship at Nuffield College, Oxford. In 1989 I moved to the London School of Economics as a Lecturer in Law. I came back to Oxford in 1994 as a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Corpus and stayed for twenty-two happy years where, among other roles, I served as Tutor for Women and Tutor for Graduates.  In 2016, I moved across the High Street to All Souls College as a Senior Research Fellow in Law. I am also a Professor of Criminal Justice in the Faculty of Law and a member of the Centre for Criminology. I have held visiting fellowships at universities in Germany, Israel, America, and Australia, and am a long-standing Conjoint Professor in the Law Faculty, UNSW Sydney. 

Research 

My research explores questions in criminal law, criminal justice, and security, especially relating to counter terrorism. I am a Commissioner on an Independent Commission on Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy (2022-2025). My recent research explores what grounds the authority of the state to exercise coercive power over its citizens; what are the legitimacy conditions of its policing function; and what protections individuals should have against arbitrary state power. 

I also examine challenges posed by emerging practices of cross-border law enforcement, resort to immigration law as crime control, and the policing of non-citizens. My interest is in complex legal and political issues concerning state authority to police both citizens and non-citizens and to enforce law within, at, and well beyond its borders. 

Selected Publications 

Mary Bosworth & Lucia Zedner (eds) Privatising Border Control: Law and the Limits of the Sovereign State (Oxford University Press, 2022)

Carolyn Hoyle & Lucia Zedner (eds) Changing Contours of Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press, 2016)

Andrew Ashworth & Lucia Zedner Preventive Justice (Oxford University Press, 2014) 

Lucia Zedner Security (Routledge Key Ideas in Criminology, 2009)

Lucia Zedner Criminal Justice (OUP Clarendon Law Series, 2004)