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 Agnieszka Kubal
Senior Editor
Associate Professor, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, Research Fellow at Green Templeton College
Agnieszka is Associate Professor at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (CSLS), Law Faculty and a Research Fellow at Green Templeton College. She completed her DPhil at University of Oxford (2011). Upon post-doctoral spells at International Migration Institute (Oxford), CSLS (Oxford) and Davis Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (Harvard), she was based at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) at UCL, where she held an Associate Professorship in Sociology.
Lucy Tu
Lead Student Editor
DPhil student, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Lucy is a DPhil candidate at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. With a background in sociology, history of science, and neuroscience, she takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying law and society. Her current research investigates how emerging reproductive technologies reshape legal and cultural conceptions of autonomy, kinship, and parental responsibility.
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.
Zeinab Bazzi
Student Editor
MPhil Candidate, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford
Zeinab Bazzi is an MPhil Candidate at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and a Student Editor of Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies. She has a background in Constitutional and Administrative Law. Her current research examines how welfare recipients are perceived by street-level organizations within the Dutch welfare state and explores how these perceptions influence the institutional culture of these organizations. She is particularly interested in citizen-oriented administrative law and the role of proactive governance in addressing issues of access and fairness within welfare states.
Mohammad Zayaan Asimi
Student Editor
DPhil student, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford
Mohammad Zayaan is a DPhil candidate at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and a Student Editor for the Borderlands section of Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies. His doctoral research examines digital sovereignty in India and how it is affected by society and culture. He has a background in law and humanities.