Short bio
Stéphanie De Coensel is an FWO Postdoctoral Researcher and Visiting Professor at Ghent University, affiliated with the Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy (Department of Criminology, Criminal Law, and Social Law at the Faculty of Law and Criminology). Her research focuses on the legitimacy of criminal law provisions in the context of counter-terrorism, as well as sentencing convicted terrorists.
Stéphanie teaches various courses and modules in the Bachelor of Criminological Sciences and Master of Laws programs, including Criminal Procedure, Advanced Criminal 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, Canada.
Stéphanie is a member of the PIXLES-platform (i.e. a knowledge hub on Privacy, Information Exchange, Law Enforcement and Surveillance) and co-promotor of the IOF Consortium i4S (Smart Solutions for Secure Societies). Stéphanie currently serves as the editorial secretary of the Revue Internationale de Droit Pénal and is a member of 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