Biography
Lecturer in Criminal Law & Criminal Justice at University of Aberdeen since 2023. After moving at a young age from the UK to South America, JP studied his undergraduate degree in law (LLB equivalent) at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado (Chile), and then returned to pursue his postgraduate studies at the University of Edinburgh, where he obtained an LLM in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice in 2018 and his PhD in Law in 2023.
JP's research and teaching focuses on the criminal law, its theory and practice, and in criminal justice more widely. He is particularly interested in the philosophy of criminal law broadly understood, with a specific interest in criminalisation theory and its metanormative implications.
Having grown up in Chile and qualified as a lawyer there before returning to the UK for his postgraduate studies, JP has had a unique chance to learn and understand the criminal law from the perspectives of both continental/civil law and common law jurisdictions. He is also interested in interdisciplinary teaching and research, particularly regarding law and philosophy.
