UCL Faculty of Laws

Diana Constantinescu joined the UCL Laws faculty as an MPhil/PhD candidate in January 2012, working under the supervision of Professor Stephen Guest and Professor Cheryl Thomas. She is also kindly guided by Professor Frederick Schauer (Virginia). Ever since she studied philosophy she was fascinated by judges – by their power, discretion and responsibility towards the society at large. She graduated from her BA in philosophy with a thesis on the internal and external constraints upon judicial discretion, and then graduated the MA in legal and political theory with a dissertation which argues that jurisprudence and empirical judicial studies must collaborate into accurately depicting the role and duties of a judge in the 21th century. She would now wish to continue her work in judicial decisionmaking by approaching both theoretical and empirical perspectives.