Professor Jen Hendry
- Position: Visiting Professor
- Areas of expertise: social and legal theory; socio-legal studies; comparative legal studies; indigenous justice; legal pluralism; civil & criminal procedure; specifically procedural hybrids / hybrid orders.
- Website: Professor Jen Hendry (CUHK Law) | Googlescholar | ORCID
Profile
Having worked at the School of Law for fifteen years, I recently took up a post as Full Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Faculty of Law. I am pleased to continue my affiliation with the School as a visiting professor for 2025 while completing AHRC-funded research and doctoral supervision.
I am also an Affiliate Reearcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (mpilhlt, Frankfurt), and an Academic Associate of 23ES Chambers. Since 2020 I have also been a co-Editor-in-Chief of the German Law Journal (Cambridge University Press).
Research interests
My research interests, broadly stated, are in the fields of social and legal theory, socio-legal studies, and comparative legal studies. I am currently writing on theoretical and comparative perspectives on civil/criminal procedural hybrids, specifically civil recovery and knife crime prevention orders, and on questions of legal pluralism and legal culture. I also write on Indigenous justice, preventive justice, and systems theory and autopoiesis.
My Oxford University Press monograph, co-authored with Professor Colin King (Sydney) and entitled Civil Recovery of Criminal Property, was published in August 2023, while my new monograph, co-authored with Dr Alex Green (CUHK), and published with Routledge GlassHouse in July 2024, is entitled Legal Pluralism: New Trajectories in Law.
<h4>Research projects</h4> <p>Some research projects I'm currently working on, or have worked on, will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>- Economic and Social Constitutionalism
- Everyday Challenges to the Rule of Law: The Case of Civil/Criminal Procedural Hybrids
- Governance and Legitimacy in the EU
- Socio-legal Trajectories in Germany and the UK: Cultures, Actors and Institutions
- Spaces of Indigenous Justice
Qualifications
- PhD, European University Institute
- MRes, European University Institute
- LLM, University of Edinburgh
- LLB (Hons), University of Glasgow
Research groups and institutes
- Centre for Law and Social Justice