Ana is the Oxford-Howard League Post-doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Criminology (2012-2013). She has recently completed her DPhil in Law at Oxford. Her work looks at the role of the criminal law in the policing of immigration. In her dissertation, she analysed both the formal criminalisation of immigration breaches --through the enactment of so called 'immigration offences'- and their enforcement in practice. Focused in the United Kingdom, her thesis is both a theoretical enquiry about the use of criminal powers to control immigration and an empirical examination of how these offences are used in everyday enforcement practices and what the function of criminal punishment is. By looking at two different legal branches –immigration law and criminal law, her work theorises about the distinctive function that criminal punishment plays in the regulation of immigration.

Before starting her doctorate degree, she completed the MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Oxford in 2008 with Distinction and was awarded the Proxime Accessit to the Roger Hood Prize. She also holds an MA in Sociology of Law (Magna Cum Laude, IISL) and a BA in Law (Honours, University of Buenos Aires). She practised criminal law and international human rights law in Buenos Aires and Washington, DC.

Ana is also an Stipendiary Lecturer in Criminal Law at Wadham College, Oxford, having previously taught Criminological Theories, Immigration and Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Juvenile Justice and Comparative Criminal Justice at Oxford and Buenos Aires.

Please see Lincoln College website for full details: http://www.lincoln.ox.ac.uk/Fellows/RyanGoss

Hayley Hooper is Lecturer at Trinity College, and a DPhil student at Balliol College. She previously worked on the AHRC Funded Project "Parliaments and Human Rights". Hayley’s doctoral thesis concerns the use of Closed Material Proceedings (CMPs) in judicial review of statutory national security powers, and their possible extension to ordinary civil proceedings involving national security matters. 

Laurence Lustgarten also Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Green Templeton College, Oxford University

Gosia Pearson is a Policy Officer in DG Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection of the European Commission, where she works on the EU's humanitarian aid strategy and international cooperation. Previously, she spent several years in the European Union External Action Service, where she was responsible for the formulation and implementation of the EU's foreign policy on human rights and democracy promotion. Before moving to Brussels, she was an academic assistant and researcher at the European Studies Centre at St. Antony?s College and the Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University. She also gained professional experience in the EU Delegation to the International Organisations in Geneva, the Polish Embassies in London and Dublin, and the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Warsaw.

Gosia Pearson holds a PhD (2007) and an MA (2005) in Political Science and International Relations from the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. She completed a graduate research programme in International Relations at St. Antony?s College, Oxford University, under the British Council Chevening Scholarship and the Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund. She also conducted research within the OSCE Researcher-in-Residence Programme and the Council of Europe Visiting Researcher Scheme. She focused her research on examining the European Union's cooperation with international organisations in the field of human rights, and her thesis was awarded a distinction in the national competition of the Polish Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Gosia Pearson joined the Centre for Criminology in 2012. Her areas of expertise include human rights, in particular the EU's internal and external policies in this field as well as international and regional human rights protection systems.