Julia Chryssostalis

Julia Chryssostalis is a Principal Lecturer at Westminster Law School and Co-Director of the Westminster Law and Theory Lab. She has been affiliated with the University of Westminster since 2003, where she teaches European Union Law, Civil Law, and New Legal Thinking. Her academic background includes law at the University of Thessaloniki and political theory with Ernesto Laclau at the University of Essex.

• Education: Law (University of Thessaloniki), Political Theory (University of Essex)
• Previous Appointments: University of Essex, Birkbeck Law School, Kent Law School

Her research focuses on critical legal theory, law and aesthetics, postcolonial spatial justice, and the role of hearing in juridical processes. She explores how unofficial norms like literature, spatiality, and sensory experiences shape legal understanding.

Julia’s recent work, including the documentary Spatial Justice in the Postcolony and the book Spatial Justice After Apartheid, examines the persistence of apartheid-era spatial ordering in South Africa. She also investigates 'otonomy' (law of the ear) in her 2023 article Nomos is an Air, extending her interdisciplinary approach to law’s auditory dimensions.

• Scientific Awards: British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowship (2017-2019)

She has supervised doctoral students on topics like rural women’s land rights in South Africa and Agamben’s legal theory. Her collaborations include projects with the University of Cape Town, funded by the National Research Foundation of South Africa and the British Academy.