Liora Lazarus is a Professor in Law at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia and a Supernumerary Fellow at St. Anne’s College Oxford. Prior to joining Allard in 2020, she spent 20 years at the University of Oxford where she was Head of Research at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and an Associate Professor in Law. She studied at the University of Cape Town, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the University of Oxford. Liora works transnationally at the interface between security, the rule of law, and human rights. She has a wide range of academic publications including Contrasting Prisoners’ Rights (OUP 2004), Reasoning Rights (Hart 2014) and Security and Human Rights (Hart 2007 and 2019). Over her career she has produced a range of official reports inter alia for the UK Ministry of Justice (2007 and 2009), the UK Stern Review on the Handling of Rape Complaints (2010), the European Union Parliament (2011); and the Council of Europe Lanzarote Committee (2021). Liora co-founded and led Oxford Pro Bono Publico (OPBP) with colleagues at Oxford during her time there. She is the founding editor of the book series Hart Studies in Security and Justice, articles editor of the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Human Rights Practice and the Max Planck Encyclopedia for Comparative Constitutional Law.
