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PROF. JENNIFER HENDRY 文林言教授

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The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sha Tin, NT, Hong Kong SAR

Jennifer (Jen) Hendry works in the fields of comparative law, socio-legal studies, social and legal theory, and criminal justice. Before joining the Faculty in January 2025, she was Chair of Law & Social Justice and Head of the Graduate School for the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Leeds, where she currently holds a visiting professorial appointment. Jen is expert in the realm of postgraduate research, and dedicated both to high quality supervision and early career researcher capacity building; she welcomes doctoral research proposals in her areas of interest.

She specialises in a contextualised and interdisciplinary approach to the study of law in society, with a particular interest in researching the legally atypical, asynchronous, and non-uniform. Considering legal phenomena that ‘don’t quite fit’ has developed her scholarship in eclectic areas, specifically legal culture, legal pluralism, Indigenous justice, preventive justice, and civil/criminal hybrid proceduralism. Jen’s work has been supported by grants from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the World Universities Network, the Socio-Legal Studies Association, and the Modern Law Review, and published in world-leading periodicals, including the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the Journal of Law & Society, the British Journal of Criminology, and Criminal Law & Philosophy. She is the co-author of two monographs (OUP; Routledge Glasshouse) and the editor of several collections.

Jen was integral in driving civil/criminal hybrid orders onto the radar and strategic agenda of UK law reform organisation JUSTICE, and was a key member of their 2022/23 Working Party on Behavioural Control Orders. Alongside UK non-governmental organisation project partners JUSTICE, Liberty, the Centre for Crime & Justice Studies, Manifesto Club, and StopWatch, she is now making a documentary film with impact documentary producers Tell Studio on the injustices of behavioural control orders.

A graduate of the Universities of Glasgow (LLB Hons), Edinburgh (LLM), and the European University Institute (MRes, PhD), Jen has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of New South Wales (UNSW), Hong Kong, Arizona, and Sydney, and is presently an Affiliated Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History & Legal Theory, Frankfurt/Main. Former Vice-Chair of the UK Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA, 2017-2019), Jen currently serves as an Advisory Board Member for the Journal of Law & Society, co-Editor-in-Chief of the German Law Journal, and Academic Associate at 23ES Barristers’ Chambers (Crime).

  

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Socio-Legal Studies / Law & Society
  • Law & Social Theory
  • Criminal Justice (Preventive Justice; Securitization)
  • Criminal Evidence
  • Comparative Law
  • Indigenous Justice

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

  • PhD, European University Institute
  • MRes, European University Institute
  • LLM, University of Edinburgh
  • LLB Hons, University of Glasgow

SELECTED AWARDS AND RESEARCH GRANTS

  • Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Responsive Mode Follow-On Funding for Impact & Engagement (Round 3, 2024), ‘Problematising Preventive Justice: Exposing the Injustices of Civil/Criminal Procedural Hybrid Orders’ (£90,478 fec).
  • White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities (WRoCAH) 2022 Collaborative Doctoral Award (doctoral studentship, with collaborative partner JUSTICE) for project ‘Compassionate Criminalisation? Safeguarding and the Strategic Use of Public Space Protection Orders’ (three-year 100% funded doctoral studentship award).
  • Modern Law Review Seminar Competition (2021), conference on ‘Hybrid Civil Criminal Procedures: Critical and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives’ (£5000).
  • Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Leadership Fellowship (2019-22), ‘Everyday Challenges to the Rule of Law: The Case of Civil/Criminal Procedural Hybrids’ (£195,358 fec).
  • Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) conference funding (2019), ‘Socio-legal studies in Germany and the UK: Theories and Methods’ symposium at the Law & Society Institute, Humboldt University Berlin (£2,400).
  • N8 Agri-food and University of Leeds School of Law Strategic Development Fund (2018-19), ‘Food Justice’ symposium (£6000).
  • James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona (2015), ‘Spaces of Indigenous Law II’ conference (US $9,000).
  • World Universities Network (WUN) Fund for International Research Collaboration (FIRC) award (2013) ‘Spaces of Indigenous Justice’ (£13,661).
  • World Universities Network Research Mobility Programme (2011) (£2,325).

VISITING ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS & EXTERNAL AFFILIATIONS

  • Visiting Professor, University of Leeds School of Law, England, UK (2025-)
  • Advisory Board Member, Journal of Law & Society (JLS)
  • Advisory Council Member, The Manifesto Club
  • AHRC/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Bilateral Funding Collaboration, Expert Panellist (Moderation) for rounds 4-6 (2022, 2023, 2024)
  • University of Leeds Academic Lead, White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership (2023-24)
  • Affiliate Researcher (Assozierte Wissenschaftlerin), Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt, Germany, Co-PI for the ‘Socio-Legal Trajectories’ Research Network (2022-25)
  • Member/Sub-Group Chair, JUSTICE Working Party: ‘Behavioural Control Orders’ (2022/23).
  • Visiting Professor, University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law & Justice, Sydney, Australia (2022)
  • Academic Associate, 23 Essex Street (23ES) Chambers, Manchester/London, England (2021-)
  • Editor-in-Chief, German Law Journal (Cambridge University Press) (2020-)
  • Arts & Humanities Research Council Peer Review College, UK Research & Innovation (UKRI)
  • Visiting Fellow, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, Centre for Comparative & Public Law, Hong Kong SAR (2019)
  • Vice-Chair, UK Socio-Legal Studies Association (2017-2019)
  • Visiting Scholar, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, Arizona (2015)
  • Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Peer Review College, UKRI
  • Executive Committee Member, Socio-Legal Studies Association (2013-2019)
  • Visiting Fellow, University of Sydney Department of Philosophy, Sydney, Australia (2011)

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Books

  • Socio-Legal Trajectories within and across Europe: Comparative Perspectives, edited by C. Boulanger, N. Creutzfeldt & J. Hendry, Hart Bloomsbury (Oñati International Series in Law and Society) forthcoming June 2025.
  • Legal Pluralism (monograph with A. Green) Routledge Glasshouse, New Trajectories in Law (2024).
  • Civil Recovery of Criminal Property (monograph with C. King) Oxford University Press, Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice (2023)
  • Indigenous Justice: New Spaces, Tools, and Approaches, edited by J. Hendry, M. Tatum, M. Jorgenson, & D. Howard-Wagner, Palgrave Macmillan Socio-Legal Studies (2018)
  • Diffusion: The Movement of Laws and Norms, edited by S. Farran, J. Gallen, J. Hendry & C. Rautenbach, Ashgate (2015)

Journal Special Issues

  • Socio-Legal Studies in Germany and the UK, edited by J. Hendry, C. Boulanger & N. Creutzfeldt), German Law Journal (2020) 21(7)
  • Governance, Civil Society and Social Movements, edited by M. Blecher & J. Hendry) Law & Critique (2008) 19(3)

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

  • ‘The Journal of Law and Society in Context: A Bibliometric Analysis’, (article with C. Boulanger & N. Creutzfeldt), Journal of Law & Society (2024) 51 (1) 3-27
  • ‘Ad Hominem Criminalisation and the Rule of Law: An Egalitarian Objection to Knife Crime Prevention Orders’ (with Alex Green), Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (May 2022) 42(2) 634–660
  • ‘‘The Usual Suspects’: Knife Crime Prevention Orders and the ‘Difficult’ Regulatory Subject’, British Journal of Criminology (March 2022) 62(2) 378–395 (nominated for the Socio-Legal Studies Association Article Prize 2022)
  • ‘One Umbrella or Two? Comparative (Socio-)Legal Studies in light of Globalisation’, Journal of Comparative Law (2021) 16(2) 552-568
  • ‘The Hostile Environment and Crimmigration: Blurring the Lines between Civil and Criminal Law’, in Soundings issue 76 (December 2020) 26-36
  • ‘Socio-Legal Studies in Germany and the UK: Theory and Methods’ (with N. Creutzfeldt and C. Boulanger) German Law Journal (2020) 21(7) 1309–1317
  • ‘Non-Positivist Legal Pluralism and Crises of Legitimacy in Settler States’ (with A. Green) Journal of Comparative Law (2019) 14(2) 267-289
  • ‘Justice for Native Nations: Insights from Legal Pluralism’ (with M. Tatum) Arizona Law Review (2018) 60(1) 91-113; 60 Ariz. L. Rev. 91 (2018)
  • ‘Reason and Paradox in Medical and Family Law: Shaping Children’s Bodies’ (with B.D. Earp & M. Thomson) Medical Law Review (2017) 25 (4) 713–714
  • ‘Expediency, Legitimacy, and the Rule of Law: A Systems Perspective on Civil/Criminal Procedural Hybrids’ (with C. King) Criminal Law & Philosophy (2017) 11(4) 733–757
  • ‘Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, and the Pursuit of Justice’ (with M. Tatum) Yale Law and Policy Review (2016) 34(2) 351-386; 34 Yale L. & Pol’y Rev. 351 (2016)
  • ‘How Far Is Too Far? Theorising Non Conviction Based Asset Forfeiture’ (with C. King), International Journal of Law in Context (2015) 11(4), 398-411
  • ‘Governance, Proceduralisation & Justice: Some Challenges to the Legal Paradigm’, Law & Critique (2008) 19(3) 345-361
  • ‘Coda: Governance, Civil Society & Social Movements. Reclaiming ‘the Common’’, European Journal of Legal Studies (2008) 3
  • ‘‘Unity in Diversity’: Questions of (Legal) Culture in the European Union’, Journal of Comparative Law (2008) 3(1) 289-294

Book Chapters

  • ‘Zooming In, Zooming Out: Socio-Legal Trajectories between Country Studies and Scholarly Self-Reflection’ (with C. Boulanger & N. Creutzfeldt), in Socio-Legal Trajectories within and across Europe: Comparative Perspectives, edited by C. Boulanger, N. Creutzfeldt & J. Hendry, Hart Bloomsbury (Oñati International Series in Law and Society) forthcoming June 2025.
  • ‘“By Your Powers Combined”: The Elucidatory Role of Comparative Socio-Legal Research’, in Jaakko Husa (ed.) Research Agenda for Comparative Law (Edward Elgar 2024), chapter 6, 107-126
  • ‘A Legal Pluralist Approach to the Bakassi Peninsula case’ in D. Gonzalez-Salzberg & L. Hudson (eds) Research Methods for International Human Rights Law: Beyond the Traditional Paradigm (Routledge 2019), chapter 6, 123-145
  • ‘Building New Traditions: Drawing Insights from Interactive Legal Culture’ (with M. Tatum) in Indigenous Justice: New Spaces, Tools, and Approaches edited by J. Hendry, M. Tatum, M. Jorgenson, & D. Howard-Wagner (Palgrave Macmillan Socio-Legal Studies 2018) chapter 11, 161-182
  • ‘‘Existing in the Hyphen’: On Relational Legal Culture’ in R. Provost (ed.) Culture in the Domains of Law (Cambridge University Press 2017) chapter 7, 179-190
  • ‘Constitution as Dialogue: Legal Pluralism and the American Experience’ (with M. Tatum) in S. Young, J. Nielsen, & J. Patrick (eds) Constitutional Recognition of First Peoples in Australia: Theories and Comparative Perspectives (Federation Press 2016) chapter 9, 160-175
  • ‘Legal Comparison and the Im/possibility of Legal Translation’ in S. Glanert (ed.) Comparative Law: Engaging Translation (Routledge July 2014) chapter 6, 87-103
  • ‘Kadi in Sight of Autopoiesis’ in M. Avbelj, F. Fontanelli & G. Martinico (eds) Kadi on Trial: A Multifaceted Analysis of the Kadi Trial (Routledge 2014) chapter 6, 63-76
  • ‘Legal Pluralism and Normative Transfer’ in G. Frankenberg (ed.) Order Through Transfer: Studies in Comparative Constitutional Law (Edward Elgar 2013) chapter 7, 153-170
  • ‘The Double Fragmentation of Law: Legal System-Internal Differentiation and the Process of Europeanisation’ in D. Augenstein (ed.) ‘‘Integration through Law’ Revisited’: The Making of the European Polity (Ashgate 2012) chapter 9, 157-170
  • ‘Facebook and the Commercialisation of Personal Information: Some Questions of Provider-to-User Privacy’ (with K. Goodall), in M.E. Goodwin & B-J. Koops (eds.) Perspectives on Regulating Technologies (Wolf Legal Publishers, Nijmegen, 2010) chapter 3, 39-62

Impact & Engagement

    REPRESENTATIVE PRESENTATIONS & KEYNOTE LECTURES

    • Invited Speaker (with A. Green), ‘The Universal Particularity of Law’, ‘Just’ Jurisprudence, Society of Legal Scholars-funded symposium, Bristol, November 15, 2024
    • Keynote: ‘Law in Context: A Short Study of Spaces and Obstacles’, Learning from Others: International and Comparative Perspectives, Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Annual Conference, Bristol, September 3, 2024
    • Keynote: ‘Plural Legalities’ (with A. Green), Juris North Roundtable Series, ‘Contemporary Non-/Anti-Positivist Legal Theory’, Newcastle Law School, November 29, 2023
    • Inaugural Series Lecture: ‘The Journal of Law & Society in Context: A Bibliometric Analysis’ (with N. Creutzfeldt), Journal of Law & Society 50th Anniversary Lecture Series, Centre for Law & Society, Cardiff Law School, October 25, 2023
    • Invited Speaker: ‘Knife Crime Prevention Orders in the UK, and the Difficult Regulatory Subject’, Transnational Law Institute: Comparative Conversations, Washington & Lee School of Law, Washington & Lee University (WLU), Lexington, Virginia (VA), USA, March 28, 2023
    • Visiting Professor: ‘“Usual Suspects and Dangerous Others”: Critiquing the Proposed UK Serious Disruption Prevention Order’, Centre for Crime, Law & Justice (CCLJ) Seminar, University of New South Wales (UNSW) Faculty of Law & Social Justice, September 26, 2022
    • Invited Speaker: ‘Civil Recovery as a Pragmatic Response to Serious Crime?’, (with Colin King), Assize Seminars on Cutting Edge Criminal Law, Cambridge University, May 13, 2022
    • Keynote: ‘The Usual Suspects’: Knife Crime Prevention Orders and the ‘Difficult’ Regulatory Subject’, Academic Associate Panel launch, 23ES Chambers (discussant: Francis Fitz Gibbon KC), Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn, London, November 23, 2021