Professor Jen Hendry secures funding to advance research on preventive justice and hybrid orders
Professor Jen Hendry has received AHRC funding to explore the injustices of civil and criminal hybrid orders, aiming to raise public awareness and foster policy change.
Professor Jen Hendry from the School of Law has been awarded Follow-On Funding for Impact & Engagement by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for her new project titled, ‘Problematising Preventive Justice: Exposing the Injustices of Civil/Criminal Procedural Hybrid Orders.’
This project builds on Professor Hendry’s previous AHRC Leadership Fellowship project (2019-2022), ‘Everyday Challenges to the Rule of Law: The Case of Civil/Criminal Procedural Hybrids,’ which examines the intersection of civil and criminal law, focusing on hybrid orders that blur the boundaries of procedural justice.
The new project will feature multiple outputs, including a short documentary film, produced in collaboration with Leeds-based Tell Studio, and a monograph already contracted with Bristol University Press.
Professor Hendry emphasises the importance of raising public awareness around hybrid orders, stating:
We are in the critical period for strategic enterprise within this policy space, and it is my great pleasure to partner with these leading organisations to inform knowledge-based interventions.
“Time is also ripe for greater public consciousness of this problematic regulatory form. Increasing public awareness of civil/criminal hybrid orders is a central aim of this activity."
Partners in the project include prominent organisations such as JUSTICE, Liberty, Stop-Watch, the Manifesto Club, and the Centre for Crime & Justice Studies (CCJS). These partnerships will support policy-oriented research aimed at fostering a deeper understanding of hybrid orders and their impact on justice.
New publication on legal pluralism
Professor Hendry, along with co-author Dr Alex Green from York Law School, has also recently published a monograph, Legal Pluralism: New Trajectories in Law with Routledge. This interdisciplinary book explores complex social and moral dimensions within legal pluralism and discusses law’s universal values alongside its unique applications across societies. Dr Green says:
"In the book, we discuss the complex social and moral contexts of legal pluralism itself, as well as the nature of law – it's universal value(s) and necessary particularity. We also engage with the rule of law and the relationship between colonialism and political legitimacy."
Professor Hendry highlights: “In addition to academic lawyers, there is something in this interdisciplinary book for comparatists, anthropologists, sociologists, and political and social philosophers.”
Join us for a hybrid seminar with Professor Hendry on her monograph on Tuesday, 10 December, from 3-4pm in the Liberty Building (Room 1.13). For more details, please contact g.rogers@leeds.ac.uk.
For further updates, please follow Professor Hendry on X @mortonjen and on Bluesky at @jenhendry.bsky.social.
