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Magdalene College

MJur. (Oxon), Dr iur (Berlin)

University Senior Lecturer

Dr Antje du Bois-Pedain’s main research interests are in the fields of criminal law, transitional justice, legal theory and medical law. She is the author of Transitional Amnesty in South Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2007, paperback edition 2011), a comprehensive study of South Africa’s conditional amnesty for politically motivated offenders and the first book on the subject to present independent statistical data on the treatment of amnesty applications by the Amnesty Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa (TRC). Her other publications include Freedom and Responsibility in Reproductive Choice (co-edited with J.R. Spencer; Hart Publishing, 2006) and Justice and Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid South Africa (co-edited with François du Bois; Cambridge University Press, 2008). She is a member of the Case Note Committee of the Cambridge Law Journal and country rapporteur for England for the internet-based journal HRRS – Höchstrichterliche Rechtsprechung zum Strafrecht. Antje du Bois-Pedain joined the law faculty in 2001 after three years of full-time research with a transitional justice project based at the Humboldt-University in Berlin. A fully qualified German laywer (First and Second State Examinations in Law, Hamburg, 1995 and 1997, grades “gut”), she also holds a first-class M.Jur degree from the University of Oxford (1998) and was awarded her doctorate “summa cum laude” from the Humboldt-University of Berlin in 2007. Dr du Bois-Pedain lectures criminal law and medical law at undergraduate level and philosophy of criminal law in the LLM. She also teaches seminar courses and supervises students in criminal law and jurisprudence. Dr du Bois-Pedain convenes the Cambridge Transitional Justice Research Network (CTJRN), an informal association of Cambridge-based scholars from various disciplines interested in transitional justice. She collaborates with colleagues from Cambridge and elsewhere on various projects in the criminal justice field. For the calendar year 2012, Dr du Bois-Pedain has been awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship to work on a project on "Paternalism and its limits: the analysis of two-party interactions in morality and law".

A full publications list is available here.