Team
The Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies Blog is published by the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford, led by a team of student editors and senior editors.
Team Members
Professor Linda Mulcahy
Senior Editor
Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford
Linda is the Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on how people experience the justice system. She is currently working on an oral history of radical lawyering and on the impact of video-technology on legal ritual and space.
Dr. Natalie Kyneswood
Senior Editor
Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford
Natalie is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford. Natalie's research focuses on feminist legal studies, feminist perspectives on evidence and procedural law, and alternative justice theories. Natalie is currently working on an ESRC funded project examining pre-recorded cross-examination and related special measures for adult 'intimidated' complainants in sex offence cases.
James Campbell
Lead Editor
DPhil student, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford
James is a DPhil candidate at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and Lead Editor of Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies. He has a background in performance studies, legal anthropology, and the sociology of law. His current research explores the significance of physical movement within legal spaces.
Anna Loebbert
Student Editor
DPhil student, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford
Anna Löbbert is a DPhil candidate at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and a Student Editor of Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies. She has a background in Social and Cultural Anthropology as well as Legal Anthropology and Philosophy. Her current research investigates law as a tool for state contestation and vehicle for radical and extremist politics.
Ayesha Pattnaik
Student Editor
DPhil student, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford
Ayesha Pattnaik is a DPhil candidate at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and a Student Editor of Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies. She has a background in Sociology and Anthropology, and previously worked as a researcher in India's development sector. Her current research explores experiences of internal migration and access to citizenship among informal workers in India.
Leonie Thies
Student Editor
DPhil student, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford
Leonie is a DPhil student at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford and is the editor of the Talking about Methods podcast. With a background in sociology, she currently focuses on knowledge-making practices in the German criminal legal system and how intersectional constructions of norm and deviance influence these practices.