Socio-Legal studies, sentencing, judicial decision-making, juvenile justice, legal mobilization.
Lama Karamé is an adjunct professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society. She is a lawyer and researcher, with extensive experience in human rights litigation and legal advocacy. Formerly, she directed the strategic litigation program at the Beirut-based regional NGO, The Legal Agenda.
Her research broadly focuses on issues at the intersection of law and society. She has published numerous studies, policy papers and articles on a wide range of topics, including legal mobilization and reform, socio-economic justice, juvenile justice, judicial decision-making, sentencing trends, and family law.
In addition to teaching, she is currently writing her Ph.D. dissertation in Socio-Legal Studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. Her doctoral research explores the socio-legal conceptualization of the child through an ethnographic study of juvenile courts in Lebanon.
CRIM 405 Law and Justice Around the World