Liora Lazarus

Vita

Liora Lazarus is University Lecturer in Law and Member of the Centre for Criminological Research at the University of Oxford. She is also associated with the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law (SAIFAC) and the Centre of Criminology at the University of Cape Town. Her primary research interests are in comparative human rights, security and human rights, comparative theory and comparative criminal justice. Born and raised in South Africa, she studied African Economic History at the University of Cape Town and Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. From 1994 - 1995 she was a Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg, Germany, where she conducted research into criminal law reform and human rights in Africa and German prisoners' rights. She went to Oxford in 1995 to write her doctorate and she joined the Law Faculty as a lecturer and then Fellow in 1998. She is the author of the book Contrasting Prisoners' Rights (OUP 2004). Her other projects include a collection, co-edited with Benjamin Goold, entitled Security and Human Rights (Hart Publishing 2007). She has completed two reports for the UK Ministry of Justice with Benjamin Goold (Public Protection, Proportionality and the Search for Balance, Ministry of Justice, 2007; Rights and Responsibilities, Ministry of Justice forthcoming 2009). She is currently developing her work on the right to security and she is engaged in a number of projects concerned with the relationship between security and human rights in fragile states.