Emmanouela Kritikou

Emmanouela is currently reading for a DPhil in Law at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Professors Jonathan Herring and Kate Greasley. Her studies are generously funded by the Onassis Foundation, the A.G. Leventis Foundation, the Foundation for Education and European Culture, and the Faculty of Law. At Oxford she is the convenor of the Criminal Law Discussion Group. Prior to commencing the DPhil, she obtained both her Master’s degree (LLM) in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure and her Bachelor’s degree in Law (LLB), with distinction, from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Her research lies in the field of Criminal Law and examines the offence of rape from the relatively neglected perspective of the perpetrator’s behavioural responsibility, rather than from the perspective of the victim’s consent. The aim of the project is to define the distinct wrongness of rape through the notion of ‘sexual objectification’ and to propose a normative restructuring of the offence on that basis. Beyond Criminal Law theory, her research interests extend to Medical Law and Bioethics, with a particular focus on complex questions of patient autonomy, including assisted dying, the regulation of advance directives, abortion, and informed consent. She is an alumna of the Stavros Niarchos Bioethics Academy, a collaborative initiative between the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Chair in Bioethics at ETH Zurich.

Emmanouela has been admitted to the Athens Bar Association as a certified lawyer. Before coming to Oxford, she worked as an editor of the Greek criminal law journal ‘Criminal Chronicles’, and previously as a trainee lawyer at the Ministry of Justice of the Hellenic Republic and at Giannidis Koureleas Law Firm. During her graduate studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, she served as the coach of the university’s representative team at the National Moot Court Competition and as the responsible editor for Criminal Law of the ‘De Jure Law Journal’.