Chloé Deambrogio
Research Fellow
Critical Legal Theory; Death Penalty Scholarship; Mental Disability Law; Race and Gender StudiesSchool of Law
B1.06, Social Sciences Building
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
Chloe’s research sits at the intersection of critical legal theory, death penalty scholarship, mental disability law, and race and gender studies. Her first book, Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference (Stanford University Press 2023), drew on unpublished trial records to explore how race and gender stereotypes shaped expert and lay understandings of mental illness and criminal responsibility in Texas capital cases over the 20th century.
Her current project, funded by the British Academy, analyses court opinions and interviews with legal actors to identify the strategies used by criminal justice officials in the American South to advance and/or deny the due process and equal protection rights of marginalised groups in capital cases. The project integrates traditional normative analyses of US Supreme Court rulings with an empirically grounded approach, aimed at advancing a contextual understanding of the capacity of courts of law to operate as agents of social and political change.