Dr Chloé Deambrogio
Chloe is a Junior Research Fellow in Law at Merton College, Oxford, and a Research Associate at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Criminology. She completed a DPhil in Criminology at the University of Oxford in 2020 as an ESRC and an Amelia Jackson Scholar (Exeter College, Oxford). Prior to joining Merton, she was a Modern Law Review Fellow and a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Exeter.
Chloe’s research sits at the intersection of critical legal theory, death penalty scholarship, mental disability law, and race and gender studies. Her first book, Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference (Stanford University Press 2023), draws on unpublished trial records to explore how race and gender stereotypes shaped expert and lay understandings of mental illness and criminal responsibility in Texas capital cases over the 20th century.
At Merton, Chloe teaches Jurisprudence to second year undergraduate students. Prior to joining Merton, she delivered lectures and seminars on Race, Ethnicity and Criminalisation and the Crimes of the Powerful at the University of Exeter, along with tutorials on the Death Penalty, Victims, and Policing at various colleges at the University of Oxford.
Books
Deambrogio, C. (forthcoming, 2023), Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference: A History of Mental Illness in the Criminal Court, Stanford University Press.
Journal Articles
Deambrogio, C. (2017), ‘Legal Insanity and the Brain. Science, Law, and European Courts, Edited by Sofia Moratti and Dennis Patterson’, European Journal of Health Law, 24(5), 639-645.
Deambrogio, C. (2012), ‘Famiglia di sangue e mafia: un’analisi socio-criminologica’, Archivio Penale, 3, 959-972.
Short Articles
Deambrogio, C. ‘The Ethical Dilemmas of Capital Punishment: A Juxtaposition of Legal Defence and Critical Theory’, University of Oxford (Law Faculty Blog), 22 June 2017.
Deambrogio, C. ‘Death Penalty Research and Funding Opportunities: The Challenge of Balancing Conflicting Interests’, University of Oxford (Law Faculty Blog), 11 February 2015.
Deambrogio, C. ‘Wrongful Convictions and the Death Penalty: The Inevitability of Error?’, University of Oxford (Law Faculty Blog), 13 November 2014.
Deambrogio, C. ‘Extended Asset Recovery: Justified Procedure or Human Rights Violation?’, University of Oxford (Law Faculty Blog), 29 May 2014.
