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Dr. Hedi Viterbo is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, and founding director of the Childhood, Law & Policy Network (CLPN). His research interrogates intersections between childhood law, state violence, human rights, and sexuality through global and interdisciplinary lenses.
- University of Essex – Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law
- SOAS (University of London) – Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
- Harvard Law School – Visiting Scholar
- Columbia University – Visiting Researcher
Education:
- PhD in Law, London School of Economics (LSE)
- LLM (summa cum laude), Tel Aviv University
- BSc in Interdisciplinary Programme for Outstanding Students, Tel Aviv University
His work critically examines how child protection principles perpetuate harm to marginalized communities, and how legal visuality shapes state violence narratives. Key themes include childhood as a legal invention, age-segregated incarceration, and neocolonial human rights practices.
Recent publications span topics like racialization in Israel/Palestine, child protection’s role in refugee crises, and juvenile justice reforms that normalize adult incarceration. These works prioritizing critical legal theory and postcolonial analysis appear in journals like State Crime Journal, European Journal of International Law, and Criminology & Criminal Justice.
Scientific Awards:
- APSA Human Rights Book Award (2023)
- SLSA Early Career Book Prize (2022)
- Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2013-2016)
- ASIL Certificate of Merit (honorable mention, 2019)
Dr. Viterbo supervises postgraduate research in human rights, child law, armed conflict, sexuality, and socio-legal studies. He contributes to public discourse via media appearances (Al Jazeera, Vox) and educational videos on child rights and Israel/Palestine legal dynamics.
