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Dr. Sabrina Gilani is an Associate Professor in Law and Critical Theory at the University of Sussex's School of Law, Politics and Sociology. She joined Sussex Law School in 2015 and holds a PhD from King's College London (2014), an LLM from the University of Nottingham (2009), and BA degrees from Carleton University (2008) and the University of Calgary (2004). Her research focuses on legal geography, posthumanism, and new materialism, particularly in relation to criminal law, Indigenous rights, and the intersection of law with technology. She has published on topics including minority protection in liberal societies, the impact of biotechnologies on criminal law, and the corporeal dimensions of punishment.
Her teaching spans courses on Aboriginal Law, Canadian Constitutional Law, and Law & Critique. Her research explores how law interacts with material environments, such as fungal, vegetal, and hydrological systems, and how AI and biotechnologies influence legal frameworks around violence and punishment. She has received funding from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Alberta government during her PhD.
Key publications include works on the death penalty’s aesthetic dimensions, bionic bodies in criminal law, and spatio-historical analysis of minority rights. Her current book project examines the material and ecological foundations of punishment.
