LLM, PhD, AFHEA
Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- jp.fassnidge@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
- School/Department
- School of Law
Biography
Lecturer in Criminal Law & Criminal Justice at University of Aberdeen since 2023. After moving at a young age from the UK to South America, JP studied his undergraduate degree in law (LLB equivalent) at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado (Chile), and then returned to pursue his postgraduate studies at the University of Edinburgh, where he obtained an LLM in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice in 2018 and his PhD in Law in 2023.
JP's research and teaching focuses on the criminal law, its theory and practice, and in criminal justice more widely. He is particularly interested in the philosophy of criminal law broadly understood, with a specific interest in criminalisation theory and its metanormative implications.
Having grown up in Chile and qualified as a lawyer there before returning to the UK for his postgraduate studies, JP has had a unique chance to learn and understand the criminal law from the perspectives of both continental/civil law and common law jurisdictions. He is also interested in interdisciplinary teaching and research, particularly regarding law and philosophy.
Qualifications
- PhD Law2023 - University of Edinburgh
PhD Thesis: "What We Say When We Criminalise - A Metanormative Inquiry", passed with no corrections. Examined by Prof. Neil Walker (Edinburgh) and Prof. Lindsay Farmer (Glasgow)
- LLM Criminal Law and Criminal Justice2018 - University of Edinburgh
- Law & Social Sciences2017 - Universidad Alberto Hurtado (Chile)
Licenciado en Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales (LLB equivalent)
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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Administrative and Academic Citizenship Roles:
Early Career Researcher Representative
Latin America Developmental Lead for the Internationalisation Committee of the Law School
MA Legal Studies and MA Criminology & Sociology Programme Coordinator
SQE1 Preparation Course Coordinator
Member of the Research Committee
Member of the Research Environment and Culture Working Group
Research Roles:
Member of the Centre for Scots Law
Member of the Aberdeen Centre for Constitutional and Public International Law
Founding Member of the Criminal Law Research Group at the University of Aberdeen
- External Memberships
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AdvanceHE, Associate Fellow (AFHEA), 2022
Chilean Supreme Court, Qualified Lawyer, 2017
Latest Publications
Sentencing Rape Offences – A Scottish Sentencing Council Consultation:: Response by the Centre for Scots Law at the University of Aberdeen
University of Aberdeen: School of Law.Other Contributions: Other ContributionsCriminalisation as a Speech-Act: Saying Through Criminalising
Criminal Law and Philosophy, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 471-490Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMental States and Evidence: Inferring and Declaring the Mind
Non-textual Forms: Web Publications and Websites
- Research
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Research Overview
Research interests:
Criminal law theory
Criminalisation
Philosophy of Criminal Law
Criminal Justice and Process
Criminal Evidence
Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law
Metaethics and Metanormative Theory
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Law.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Law
Accepting PhDs
Philosophy
Research Specialisms
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Justice
- Philosophy
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
Current Research
JP is working on developing two broad research themes:
- Criminal Law and Metanormative Theory: how our theoretical understanding of how norms and reasons work affect our understanding of criminal law doctrines and institutions.
- Mental States and Evidence: how the different ways in which the mind and mental states are used in the criminal law, and specifically how we provide evidence for them within a criminal process, is affected by our understanding of the brain, the mind and their links to normative contexts and decision-making in assigning meanings to actions.
Collaborations
Virtual Criminal Law Group - Co-organiser, together with Prof Lindsay Farmer (Glasgow), Prof Antony Duff and Prof Sandra Marshall (Stirling), and Dr Kajsa Dinesson (York).
Member of the Centre for Scots Law
Member of the Aberdeen Centre for Constitutional and Public International Law
Founding Member of the Criminal Law Research Group (ACLRG) at the University of Aberdeen
- Teaching
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Programmes
- Undergraduate, 4 year, September start
- Postgraduate, 3 semester, September start
- Publications
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Sentencing Rape Offences – A Scottish Sentencing Council Consultation:: Response by the Centre for Scots Law at the University of Aberdeen
University of Aberdeen: School of Law.Other Contributions: Other ContributionsCriminalisation as a Speech-Act: Saying Through Criminalising
Criminal Law and Philosophy, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 471-490Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMental States and Evidence: Inferring and Declaring the Mind
Non-textual Forms: Web Publications and Websites
