Kajsa E Dinesson

Profile

Biography

Dr Kajsa E Dinesson

PhD in Law (University of Edinburgh, 2024)
LLM in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice (University of Edinburgh, 2020)
BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (University of York, 2019)

Lecturer in Law

I joined York Law School in 2023. Prior to this I was teaching and completing my PhD research at the University of Edinburgh.

My research involves criminal law theory as well as socio-legal empirical research. My work to date has particularly focused on anti-terror law and policy. I have a particular interest in police and prosecutorial discretion and sentencing in this context. My current areas of interests include discretion; autism and terror-law in policing, prosecutions, and sentencing; and evidence in the terror context. I have research experience from academia as well as from government policy.

I currently teach across criminal law, criminology, legal philosophy, and mental health and capacity law.

Office hours: Please contact me for up-to-date office hours.

Departmental roles

EDI committee member

Research

Overview

My research to date has focused broadly on anti-terror law and policy in the UK. My work ranges from critical theoretical work on the harms of counter-terrorism to empirical and doctrinal work on evidence and the implementation of preventive criminal offences. My current interests include: criminal responsibility and state responsibility, evidential rules and jury directions, the criminalization of risk.

Currently writing 'Criminalizing terrorism' with OUP, and 'Harmful Security' with BUP.

I am a PhD supervisor and welcome proposals on topics around criminal law and criminal justice or which otherwise fit my expertise.

Teaching

Undergraduate

I teach across topics of criminal law and criminal justice, including:

• Current Issues in Criminal Justice (Year 2 option)
• Criminal law (Year 1 and 2 Foundations in Law)
• Dissertation (UG and PG)

Publications

Selected publications

• 2024. A terrorist mindset: findings from an empirical enquiry into prosecutions, evidence, and mindset material. Legal Studies. Published online 2024:1-17. doi:10.1017/lst.2024.34
• 2024. Dinesson, K. E., & Soliman, F. Decriminalising terror: for a zemiology of counterterrorism. Justice, Power and Resistance (published online ahead of print 2024).
• 2024. Review. 'Mr Bates vs The Post Office'. Law and Humanities, 18(1),  137-142.
• 2023. Book Review: ‘Precursor crimes of terrorism: the criminalisation of terrorism risk in comparative perspective. Ed by Clive Walker, Mariona Llobet Anglí and Manuel Cancio Meliá’, Edinburgh Law Review 27(2), 236-237.
• 2022. ‘Evidencing terrorist intent – The ambiguities of circumstantial evidence and mind-set material’ (Social & Legal Studies blog, 12 September 2022)
• 2022. ‘(Un)reasonable Excuses – On R v Dunleavy, R v Copeland, and Section 58’, Modern Law Review, 85(6), 1550-1561.
• 2022. ‘Preventing Harm: The “Collection of Information” Offence in Commentary, Case Law and Data’, Criminal Law Review, 6, 469-487.

For a complete and up-to-date list of publications, please click on the link above to my profile in the York Research Database.

External activities

Overview