Short bio
Stéphanie De Coensel is an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Criminal Procedure at Ghent University. She is affiliated with the Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy (IRCP), part of the Department of Criminology, Criminal Law, and Social Law within the Faculty of Law and Criminology.
Her predoctoral and postdoctoral research has focused on the legitimacy of criminal law provisions in the context of counter-terrorism, as well as sentencing practices for convicted terrorists.
Stéphanie teaches a range of courses across the Bachelor of Criminological Sciences, Bachelor of Laws, and Master of Laws programs, including Criminal Procedure, Advanced Criminal Procedure, Traffic Law, and Legal Design.
She holds a PhD, Master’s, and Bachelor’s degree in Law from Ghent University, and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Calgary in Canada.
Stéphanie is an active member of several (interdisciplinary) platforms, including PIXLES (i.e. a knowledge hub on Privacy, Information Exchange, Law Enforcement and Surveillance), RADILAB (UGent Impact Lab for the Prevention and Countering of Violent Extremism – P/CVE), and serves as co-promotor of the IOF Consortium i4S (Smart Solutions for Secure Societies).
She currently acts as editorial secretary of the Revue Internationale de Droit Pénal and sits on the editorial board of the Law & Criminology Journal.
Work details
- EMAIL: stephanie.decoensel@ugent.be
- TELEPHONE: +32 9 264 97 02
- TELEPHONE SECRETARIAT: +32 9 264 69 30
- ADRESS: Universiteitstraat 4, Ghent, Belgium
- ORCID: 0000-0002-2555-1365
Selected societal impact activities
Selected media
Selected events
- 2017 – Presentation at Update in de Criminologie VIII: “Legitimiteit van de strafbaarstelling van het aanzetten tot terrorisme : de uitbreiding van artikel 140bis Sw. vanuit een internationaalrechtelijk en mensenrechtelijk perspectief”
- 2017 – Presentation at the Conference on ’Human Dignity and Human Security in Times of Terrorism: International (Human Rights) Law Challenges and Opportunities: “EU Policy on Incitement to Terrorism: A Slippery Slope”
- 2018 – Presentation at the 18th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology: Crimes Against Humans and Crimes Against Humanity – Implications for Modern Criminology: “Extending criminal liability throughout the phases of the radicalization process : Building bridges between the knowledge of criminological sciences and the counterterrorism legislation within the criminal law”
Expertise
- Counterterrorism
- Radicalization
- Terrorism