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- Associate Professor
- Faculty of Laws
- UCL SLASH
Dr Dsouza took his undergraduate honours degree in arts and law (First Class) from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India, and was awarded a gold medal for legal ethics. He then worked as a commercial litigator in New Delhi for a total of almost 5 years. In 2009, he gained an LLM (First Class) from the University of Cambridge, where, although he specialized in commercial laws, he also secured a first class score in a module on the Philosophy of Criminal Law. This module provided the spark for his doctoral research proposal to study the philosophy of criminal law defences at the University of Cambridge. He was awarded a Cambridge International Scholarship for this doctoral research, which he completed in 2014.
Dr Dsouza accepted his first full-time lectureship at the University of Liverpool in 2013, and moved to UCL in 2016. He won the UCL EXALT award for Excellence in Law Teaching in 2019, and the SLS Best Paper award for 2020.
Dr Dsouza is also keenly interested in the doctrinal law relating to inchoate and accessorial liability. He co-organised a conference in September 2016 on the Supreme Court’s judgement in R v Jogee & Ruddock (2016) and more generally, the law on accessorial liability.
In November 2018 he delivered an invited lecture to the Criminal Bar Association's Annual Seminar on 'Developments in Substantive Criminal Law Defences'. He is part of the Criminal Law Reform Now Network's team working on proposing reforms to the law of Consent and Deception.
Dr Dsouza co-organises the Assize Seminar Series in Cutting Edge Criminal Law. The inaugural seminar was held in May 2017, and the seminar has run biannually (with one exception due to the covid pandemic) ever since.
Taught Modules:
Criminal Law (Course Convenor), Jurisprudence, Philosophical Foundations of the Common Law
Dr Dsouza won the UCL EXALT Award for Excellence in Law Teaching in 2019.
PhD Supervision:
Dr Dsouza welcomes approaches for supervision of PhD candidates in the theory, philosophy, and doctrine of criminal law.
2016 | Certificate in Professional Studies | University of Liverpool | |
2014 | Doctorat | University of Cambridge | |
2009 | Master of Laws | University of Cambridge |