Liora Lazarus

Liora Lazarus, BA (UCT), LLB (LSE), DPhil (Oxon), is a Professor in Law at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia.  She came to the Allard School after a twenty year career at the University of Oxford, where she was  Associate Professor in Law, Head of Research at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, and a Fellow of St. Anne's College in Oxford. 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 1994-95 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.Liora's main academic focus is in the area of prisoners' rights, criminal justice and security and human rights. Her first book, Contrasting Prisoners' Rights, was published in 2004 and explored the constitutional and criminal justice cultures which formed the prisoners' legal status in Germany and the UK. In 2006, Liora widened her research field and co-edited Security and Human Rights with Benjamin Goold. She has focused on this area since then, publishing on a range of related aspects.