Personal Info

E-mail: liora.lazarus(at)st-annes.ox.ac.uk

Tel: 01865 274871

Web Link:http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/profile/lazarusl

Academic Background:

Born and raised in South Africa, Liora studied African Economic History at the University of Cape Town and Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. From 1994 to 1995 she was a Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg, Germany. She came to Oxford in 1995 to write her doctorate at Balliol College, after which she went on to become a law fellow at St Anne’s College. She is the author of the book Contrasting Prisoners' Rights (2004), the themes of which she explored in her article ‘Conceptions of Liberty Deprivation’ (Modern Law Review, September 2006). Her other projects include a collection, co-edited with Benjamin Goold, entitled Security and Human Rights (2007) which incorporates her own work on ‘The Right to Security’. She has completed two reports for the UK Ministry of Justice with Benjamin Goold. The first was on the use of proportionality in balancing between security and rights in Europe (Public Protection, Proportionality and the Search for Balance, Ministry of Justice, 2007), the second was on the concept of constitutional responsibilities (The Relationship between Rights and Responsibilities, Ministry of Justice 2009).

In 2010, Liora acted as a legal advisor to the Stern Review into Rape Complaints. Currently, Liora is working on a number of projects including: a large-scale report commissioned by the European Union Parliament comparing the human rights regimes under the United Nations, the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Union; an edited collection on the decline of US Constitutionalism in the 21st century; a monograph entitled Juridifying Security and a number of associated articles and book chapters. Liora is actively involved in the work of Oxford Pro Bono Publico (which she co-founded), the Oxford Transitional Justice Research Group and Oxford Legal Assistance. The report for the EU Parliament has now been published, and can be read online.

Liora is also a research associate at the Centre for Legal and Applied Research, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town, and the Institute of Cultural Inquiry in Berlin. She sits on the editorial board of the Oxford University Comparative Law Forum and the Journal of Human Rights Practice.

Teaching Interests:

Undergraduate: Constitutional and Administrative Law; Criminal Justice and Penology; Human Rights Law

Graduate: Criminal Justice and Human Rights

Research Interests:

Liora Lazarus’s primary research interests are in comparative human rights, security and human rights, comparative theory and comparative criminal justice.

Selected Publications:

L. Lazarus, 'Inspecting the Tail of the Dog' in Melissa McCarthy (ed.), Incarceration and Human Rights (2010)

L. Lazarus, The Human Rights Framework Relating to the Handling, Investigation and Prosecution of Rape Complaints, Annex A to the Stern Report on The Handling of Rape Complaints (2010)

L. Lazarus, Benjamin Goold, Rajendra Desai and Qudsi Rasheed, The Relationship Between Rights and Responsibilities (2009) 18/09 Ministry of Justice Research Series

L. Lazarus, The President, The Prosecutor, and the Secular Priest: corruption, politics and the courts – Jacob Zuma v National Director of Public Prosecution (2008) Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 46/2008 (e-pub)

L. Lazarus, 'Mapping the Right to Security' in Benjamin J. Goold and Liora Lazarus (eds), Security and Human Rights (2007)

L. Lazarus, B.J. Goold and G. Swiney, 'Public Protection, Proportionality and the Search for Balance' (2007) 10/07 Ministry of Justice Research Series

L. Lazarus and B.J. Goold (eds), Security and Human Rights (2007)

L. Lazarus and B.J. Goold, 'Security and Human Rights: The Search for a Language of Reconcilliation' in Benjamin J. Goold and Liora Lazarus (eds), Security and Human Rights (2007)

L. Lazarus, Conceptions of Liberty Deprivation (2006) 69 Modern Law Review 738-69

L. Lazarus, Contrasting Prisoners' Rights: A Comparative Examination of England and Germany (2004)