Shannon Russell

I am a legal policy executive, legal scholar and research officer with interests in criminal law, refugee law, equality law and human rights. My research work relies on critical feminist, queer and intersectional perspectives, drawing on comparative legal and socio-legal methods.

Currently, I am working in legal policy and research development while reading for a part-time DPhil Law at the University of Oxford. My doctoral research explores the acts reus of rape and other sexual offences in a comparative context, focusing primarily on England & Wales and Canada. Previously, I held lectureships and academic posts at the Queen’s College, Oxford, the University of Winchester and the University of Manitoba.

I hold an LLM Law from the University of British Columbia, an MSc Criminology and Criminal Justice awarded with Distinction from the University of Oxford and an LLB Law awarded with First Class Honours from the University of Edinburgh.