Henrique Carvalho

Professor

Co-Director of CCLS

Criminal Law; Criminal Justice; Punishment; Aesthetics; Affect; Identity; Belonging; Boundary-work

School of Law
S1.23, Social Sciences Building
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom

024 765 74724

Scholarship

Henrique is Professor of Law and co-Director of theCentre for Critical Legal Studiesat Warwick Law School, University of Warwick. He is a critical theorist of criminalisation, punishment, law and justice, examining these issues as cultural, socio-political phenomena which both reflect and condition matters of identity and belonging, authority and order. Henrique's broader research interests include criminal law and justice, criminology, responsibility and punishment, aesthetics, narratology, and legal, social, cultural and political theory.

Henrique is currently a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow working on the project 'Just Sentences: Narrating and Rewriting Criminal Law's Aesthetic Injustice'. This project is a critical study of sentencing remarks in English courts, paying particular attention to their aesthetic dimension and their cultural role. He is also a Co-Investigator in the Vulnerable State project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, which explores the ambivalent moral and affective economies of state power in the governance of marginalised populations. In addition, Henrique has a longstanding collaboration with Anastasia Chamberlen on critical and emancipatory approaches to justice.

Henrique is an editorial board member, and book reviews co-editor, of Social & Legal Studies, and an editorial board member of the International Journal of Law in Context and of the Journal of Critical Realism.

Bio

Henrique joined the University of Warwick in September 2015. He holds a PhD in Law (King's College London), an LLM in Legal Theory (King's College London), a Specialism in Procedural Law and Legal Reasoning (UFPE, Brazil), and a Bachelors degree in Law (UNICAP, Brazil). He also had training in social communication, advertising, and history of philosophy. Henrique is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Prior to coming to Warwick, Henrique was a Lecturer in Law at City University London, and a Visiting Lecturer at King's College London, having previously taught criminal law, public law, law and social theory and jurisprudence at King's College London, and criminal law at the LSE.

Publications Teaching Projects

Title	Funder	Award start	Award end
PROCEDURAL UNFAIRNESS AND (UN)EQUAL PROTECTION IN CAPITAL CASES: DOES RIGHTS DISCOURSE HELP ADVANCE SOCIAL JUSTICE? (Chloe Deambrogio BA postdoc fellowship outline - 2nd stage)	British Academy	01 Jan 2025	31 Dec 2027
At the heart of the state: Ambivalent moral and affective economies of state power in an age of vulnerability (Leverhulme Research Project Grant)	Leverhulme Trust	01 Oct 2022	30 Sep 2026
The Dangerous Essence of Criminal Law: Redefining Criminalisation - ISRF Early Career Fellowship	Independent Social Research Foundation	01 Oct 2019	31 Mar 2021
The Problem of Punishment	Society of Legal Scholars	01 May 2016	31 Jul 2018

Impact

Legislation

Henrique has submitted written evidence to the Parliamentary Justice Select Committee, on the topic of 'Covid and the Criminal Law'.

Policy Professional Practice

Research Supervision

Henrique welcomes proposals from prospective doctoral students for supervising research in the following areas:

Critical approaches to criminal responsibility, criminalisation and criminal legal judgments;
The philosophy and/or the sociology of punishment;
The relationship between law, politics, aesthetics and affect; and
Social, cultural and legal theory, particularly in relation to issues of legal subjectivity, coloniality, boundary-work and difference.

If you are interested in pursuing a PhD with Henrique, please ensure that you have a research proposal which corresponds with the University of Warwick School of Law requirements.

Current PhD students:

Bárbara Branco
Heather Cowgill
Anna Gillions (at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University)
Belinda Rawson
Puja-Arti Patel
James White