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Professor of Criminal Law and Philosophy; Director, Centre for Penal Theory and Penal Ethics (IoC)
CV / Biography
Dr Antje du Bois-Pedain is Reader in Criminal Law and Philosophy in the Faculty of Law and Director of the Centre for Penal Theory and Penal Ethics at the Institute of Criminology, where she leads some of the Centre’s research projects and has initiated the Centre’s Judicial-Academic Roundtable on Sentencing. She also founded and convened the Cambridge Transitional Justice Research Network, an informal association of Cambridge-based scholars working on issues of post-conflict justice and socio-political reform.
Dr du Bois-Pedain has published widely on criminal law and criminal justice ethics, transitional justice and penal theory. In her capacity as Director (and formerly Deputy Director) of the Centre for Penal Theory and Penal Ethics, she has revived the Centre's book series on Penal Theory and Ethics with Hart/Bloomsbury with an edited collection on Criminal Law and the Authority of the State (co-edited with M Ulvang and P Asp, Hart/Bloomsbury 2017; paperback edn 2019). A further volume, on Penal Censure: Engagements Within and Beyond Desert Theory (co-edited with Anthony Bottoms) has appeared in 2019.
Her other publications include a research monograph on Transitional Amnesty in South Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2007, paperback edition 2011) and edited collections on Liberal Criminal Theory: Essays for Andreas von Hirsch (co-edited with A.P. Simester and U. Neumann, Hart Publishing, 2014); Justice and Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid South Africa (co-edited with François du Bois; Cambridge University Press, 2008) and Freedom and Responsibility in Reproductive Choice (co-edited with J.R. Spencer; Hart Publishing, 2006). She held a British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship in 2012 and received a Cambridge Humanities Research Grant in 2013. Through collaborative research projects and networks, Dr du Bois-Pedain has forged connections to scholars from around the globe. Standing collaborations include a funded network on German and Anglo-American Dialogues in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, and various other projects by international scholars concerned to revive transnational criminal law conversations.
Dr du Bois-Pedain is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College and has assessed major research applications for governmental bodies in various European countries. She is an editorial board member (thematic editor for Comparative Law and Legal Theory) of the Criminal Law Forum, a member of the editorial committee and of the case note committee of the Cambridge Law Journal, and regularly reviews manuscripts for leading publishers and journals internationally. Dr du Bois-Pedain is a fully qualified German laywer (First and Second State Examinations in Law, Hamburg, grades “gut”). She also holds a first-class M.Jur degree from the University of Oxford and was awarded her doctorate “summa cum laude” from the Humboldt-University of Berlin.
Dr du Bois-Pedain lectures and supervises Criminal Law and teaches a seminar course in Ethics and the Criminal Law at undergraduate level. She lectures on theories underpinning sentencing in the Tripos paper on Criminology, Sentencing and the Penal System, and teaches a seminar on Penal Theories in the MPhil programme at the Institute of Criminology. For PhD students in law and criminology who work on ethical or theoretical questions of criminal law and criminal justice, she co-convenes the Criminal Jurisprudence and Philosophy Group, a work-in-progress group that meets every two weeks during full term. She supervises PhD students in the Faculty of Law and in the Department of Political Science and International Studies (POLIS). She has also supervised an MPhil student in the Institute of Criminology.
Visit Dr du Bois-Pedain's SSRN page (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1229319) for some of her papers including forthcoming work not yet listed in the list of publications below.
Publications
Books
Penal Censure: Engagements Within and Beyond Desert Theory (ed) (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Criminal Law and the Authority of the State (ed) (Hart/Bloomsbury, 2017)
Liberal Criminal Theory: Essays for Andreas von Hirsch (edited with AP Simester and Ulfrid Neumann) (Hart Publishing 2014 (hardback) and 2016 (paperback)), xxix + 375 pp. (Hart Publishing, 2014)
Transitional Amnesty in South Africa (paperback) (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
Justice and Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid South Africa (ed) (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
Transitional Amnesty in South Africa (CUP, 2007)
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