Dr Alistair Henry

Senior Lecturer in Criminology

Programme Director MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice

LLB, MSc, PhD

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Email: a.henry@ed.ac.uk

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Alistair Henry is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology in Edinburgh Law School. Between 2010-2018 he acted as an Associate Director of the Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR), where he chaired the Police Community Relations Network. He currently coordinates the Edinburgh/SIPR Brokering Group - connecting Edinburgh University colleagues with interests in policing..

Current Research Interests

Alistair's main research interests are around the sociology of policing, local policing, partnership working and community engagement, governance and accountability of police and public sector agencies, and the development of collaborative academic-practitioner research agendas. He is also interested in interaction ritual theory, social learning theories, and visual and literary representations of crime and justice.

Research Interests

Alistair has broad interests within the fields of criminology, police studies and social theory. Particular areas of interest that shape both his research and his teaching include:

Interaction ritual and police encounters
Policing and community policing
Social learning and communities of practice in organisations
Governance and accountability
Partnership working across organisational boundaries
Academic-practitioner collaborations
Reflexivity and social scientific methods

Accepting PhD students

I am open to discussing PhD opportunities with potential candidates in relation to any of my noted research interests. At present I have particularly strong interests in the local governance of crime, governance and accountability mechanisms in policing, democratic governance of the police, the effects of police reform, policing in times of austerity, and partnership working and how to make it more effective in practice.

Professor Filippo Fontanelli

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Professor of International Law and Practice

Head of Subject Area: Public International Law

LLM, PhD

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Email: Filippo.Fontanelli@ed.ac.uk

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Dr Filippo Fontanelli read Law at the University of Pisa (degree and masters, in 2004 and 2006) and at the Sant'Anna School (Diploma di Licenza and PhD, 2008 and 2012). He worked at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton LLP (Rome) from 2007 to 2009. He passed the bar exam in Italy (Rome). He holds an LLM degree from the New York University School of Law, where he served as Hauser Global LLM Fellow and received the Jerome Lipper Prize. He worked as university trainee at the International Court of Justice (The Hague), assisting H.E. Judge Cançado Trindade and H.E. Keith (2010/2011).

Dr Fontanelli is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the International Law Association, in which he was co-rapporteur of the ILA Committee on the Procedure of International Courts and Tribunals. He is member of the Faculty of the Master in International Law of the Universidad La Sabana (Bogota) and has been visiting professor at the University of Stockholm, the University of Vienna and LUISS (Rome), where he teaches the course The Protection of Human Rights in Europe as adjunct professor.

Dr Fontanelli served as academic fellow on international trade law with the Scottish Parliament's Information Centre and adviser to the Europe and External Affairs Committee (2018-2020). He acts as counsel and legal expert before international courts and tribunals, and upon appointment by international institutions, including the Council of Europe and the Venice Commission.

Dr Fontanelli welcomes PhD proposals in the areas of international economic law, human rights and public international law.