Chloë Kennedy

Chloë Kennedy (she/her) is a Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law.

Her research interests include:

• Legal history
• Legal theory
• Criminal law and justice
• Law and gender
• Law and feminism
• Law and emotions

Current and notable research projects/ publications:

• The Scottish Feminist Judgments Project. Along with Profs Sharon Cowan and Vanessa Munro, Chloë ran the Scottish Feminist Judgments Project, whose major outputs (including a podcast, virtual exhibition, teaching resource, and gallery of students’ creative works) can be found here: https://www.sfjp.law.ed.ac.uk/
• An AHRC funded project about legal responses to deceptively induced intimacy (sex and romantic and / or sexual relationships). She is writing a monograph based on this research, provisionally titled Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law (under contract with Cambridge University Press). As part of this project, Chloë co-commissioned award-winning work by visual artist Jamie Crewe. Details of the project, including its outputs, can be viewed here: https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/research/research-projects/identity-deception
• 'A History of Injured Feelings and the Law, 1750 to the Present.' (provisional title) With Dr Katie Barclay (University of Adelaide).