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Professor of Political and Legal Geography, University of Cambridge
Alex Jeffrey is Professor of Political and Legal Geography at the University of Cambridge. Alex's work has advanced understandings of the relationship between space and law, and in particular focused on the legal processes enacted in the wake of mass atrocities. This has involved exploring questions relating to access to justice for victims and witnesses, and the material, political and legal barriers to engaging in court processes.
Early research in this area funded by the ESRC focused on the experience of Bosnia and Herzegovina, exploring the process of establishing a domestic War Crimes Chamber with jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute crimes undertaken during the 1992-5 war. This work culminated in the publication of The Edge of Law: Legal Geographies of a War Crimes Court (2020) as part of the Cambridge University Press Series Studies in Law and Society. Alex also participated in a podcast about this work in the Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies site.
Alex's most recent work is investigating the operation of genocide law at the International Court of Justice, with a focus on the The Gambia's case against Myanmar for contravention of the UN Genocide Convention.
