Senior Lecturer
Maîtrise de Droit des Affaires (Paris X), Diplôme d'Etudes Juridiques Appliquées section anglo-américaine II (Paris X), LLB (Kent), PhD (London) 
Email: veronique.voruz@le.ac.uk
Telephone: 0116 252 2330

Véronique studied Law at the University of Paris X where she graduated from in 1994 with a double degree in French and Anglo-American Business Law. She obtained her LLB degree in 1995 from the University of Kent at Canterbury before completing a doctorate in Law (2002) at the University of London (Queen Mary College). At Leicester, Veronique teaches French Law and Criminology. She is also guest lecturer at the École de Criminologie of the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), and a fellow of the London Graduate School.

Véronique is Erasmus co-ordinator for France, course co-ordinator for the jointly run (with Strasbourg) LLB/maîtrise in English and French Law and for the LLB Law with French Law and Language degree. She is also admissions tutor for both these courses.

Research Interests

Foucault studies, psychiatry/psychoanalysis, critical criminology.

Research Projects

Véronique is currently writing a book on Foucauldian criminology for Routledge, for which she was awarded an AHRC research leave award and British Academy Small Research Grant. She also wrote the introduction for (with Dr Suzanne Yang), and translated, Dr Biagi-Chai’s book, Serial Killers: Criminology, Psychiatry, Responsibility (Routledge), from French into English. She is a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, Law, Culture and the Humanities, and Theoretical Criminology, and a founding member of Culture/Clinic: Applied Lacanian Psychoanalysis, a journal to be published by Minnesota University Press from 2013. Véronique also recently acted as a consultant to Jean-Stéphane Bron for his documentary on the subprime crisis, Cleveland vs. Wall Street, nominated for the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at the Cannes festival in 2010.

Selected Publications

• Voruz V. (in press) “The Gaze in Surveillance Societies” in Michel Foucault: Law, Government, Rights, ed. B. Golder (Routledge, forthcoming)
• Voruz, V. (in press) “Nothing Works”, Culture/Clinic 2.
• Voruz, V. (2011) “Culpability and the Politics of Love”, Law and Critique 22: 205-226. DOI: 10.1007/s10978-011-9093-2
• Voruz, V. (2011) “Politics in Foucault’s later work: a Philosophy of Truth; or reformism in question”, Theoretical Criminology 15-1: 47-65. DOI: 10.1177/1362480610380229
• Voruz, V. (2010) “Psychoanalysis at the time of the Posthuman”, Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory, 'Psychoanalysis and the Posthuman' 33-3: 423-443 DOI: 10.3366/E0264833410000994
• Voruz V. (2010) “Subjectivité criminelle : au-delà de la dangerosité et du psycho-juridisme”, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law  23-1: 111-118.
• Voruz V. (2009) “Reading Criminology with Psychoanalysis: the Case for Singularity”, New Directions for Criminology, ed. R. Lippens and Patrick Van Calster (Maklu: Antwerpen): 99-118
• Voruz V. (2009) “‘That which in life might prefer death’: From the death drive to the desire of the analyst”, Law and Evil: Philosophy, Politics, Psychoanalysis, ed. A. Hirvonen and Janne Porttikivi(Routledge): 260-285
• Voruz V. (2009) “Psychose ordinaire et démocratie”, Quarto 94-95 : 116-122
• Voruz V. (2009) “Psicoanalisis y criminologia”, Las ciencias inhumanas, ed. V. Palomera (ELP:  RBA): 253-271

Full Publication List (pdf) 

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