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Dr Milena Tripkovic
Senior Lecturer in Criminology
Programme Director MSc in Global Crime, Justice and Security
PhD, MRes, MSc, MPhil, LLB
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Tel: +44 (0)131 651 5565
Email: milena.tripkovic@ed.ac.uk
View my publicationsMilena Tripkovic is a Lecturer in Criminology and Associate Director for Internationalisation of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR). Milena joined Edinburgh Law School in 2019, having previously taught at the University of Birmingham, University of Kent and University of Novi Sad. She obtained her PhD and MRes degrees in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute, MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Oxford, and MPhil and LLB degrees from the University of Novi Sad. She is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. During her PhD studies, Milena was a Visiting Global Scholar at the New York University and a Visiting Doctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law.
In line with her diverse educational background, Milena has researched various problems associated with crime and punishment. Her current research, which examines contemporary restrictions to citizenship rights of criminal offenders, is situated at the intersection of law, criminology and normative political theory and explores the issues of punishment, citizenship and community. Her recent book Punishment and Citizenship: A Theory of Criminal Disenfranchisement (Oxford University Press, 2019) is an original account of the normative validity of restrictions to electoral rights of criminal offenders, which shifts the debate from penal theory towards more fundamental problems of citizenship and belonging. The book is part of OUP’s most prestigious criminal law series, Studies in Penal Theory and Philosophy. Milena has previously researched and published on topics such as prison conditions and prisoner rights, restorative and transitional justice, hate crimes and problems associated with crime and punishment of female offenders. Her publications have appeared in journals such as the British Journal of Criminology, Punishment and Society and Howard Journal of Crime and Justice.
Milena has taught a wide variety of courses pertaining to criminal law, criminology, international and transnational crime, and transitional justice. Milena welcomes PhD proposals from the field of criminology, global crime, and comparative criminal justice.
Key publications
• M Tripkovic, No Country for ‘Bad’ Men: Volatile Citizenship and the Emerging Features of Global Neo-colonial Penality (2023) British Journal of Criminology, online first.
• M Tripkovic, Disenfranchisement. In: Ryberg J (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Punishment Theory and Philosophy (forthcoming).
• M Tripkovic, Renouncing Criminal Citizens: Patterns of Denationalization and Citizenship Theory (2022) Punishment and Society, online first.
• M Tripkovic, Transcending the Boundaries of Punishment: On the Nature of Citizenship Deprivation (2021) 61(4) British Journal of Criminology 1044.
• M Tripkovic, Punishment and Citizenship: A Theory of Criminal Disenfranchisement (Oxford University Press, 2019)
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Amalia Amaya Navarro
Professor of Law and Philosophy
Director of Center for Legal Theory
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Email: amalia.amaya@ed.ac.uk
View my publicationsAmalia Amaya is Professor of Law and Philosophy. She joined the School of Law at Edinburgh University in 2019 with a British Academy Global Professorship Award. Professor Amaya completed a B.A. in Law at the University of Alicante and a B.A. in Linguistics at the University of Barcelone. She obtained an LLM and a PhD from the European University Institute and an LLM and a SJD from Harvard Law School. Prior to joining Edinburgh Law School, she was Research Professor at the Institute for Philosophical Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She has also held visiting appointments at the University of Texas at Austin, University College at Oxford University, and Queen Mary University of London.
Professor Amaya works primarily in philosophy of law, with a particular focus on legal reasoning and epistemology, theories of justice, and international normative theory. Her prior work has aimed at analyzing the role of coherence in legal reasoning. The main outcome of this research is the book The Tapestry of Reason (2015). Professor Amaya’s current research project is on law, virtue and character. On this topic, she has co-edited Law, Virtue and Justice (with Ho Hock Lai, 2012), The Faces of Virtue in Law (with Claudio Michelon, 2020) and Virtue, Emotion and Imagination in Legal Reasoning (with Maksymilian del Mar, 2020). She is now working on a book manuscript that seeks to develop a virtue approach to legal reasoning and judicial ethics. She is also interested in exploring the role of exemplarity in contemporary legal and political culture and, especially, its implications for problems concerning the nature of authority at both the domestic and the global level. In addition, she is engaged in research on fraternity as a legal and political ideal, which addresses the conceptual, practical, and institutional dimensions of the idea of fraternity.
Dr Longjie Lu
Lecturer in Banking, Corporate and Financial Law
Director of Center for Commercial Law; Programme Director LLM in Commercial Law; Student Mobility Coordinator
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Tel: +44 (0)131 650 2336
Email: longjie.lu@ed.ac.uk
View my publicationsDr. Longjie Lu joined Edinburgh Law School in September 2019. Prior to Edinburgh, Longjie taught law at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, and completed her Ph.D. in law at the University of Leeds.
Longjie’s main research interests are in the areas of financial regulation, corporate governance, corporate finance and empirical legal studies.