Dee's academic work

Dee holds a PhD in legal theory and has worked extensively on topics of exclusion and othering (under her legal name). Her main field of studies is critical legal theory and international law of human rights. She has focused on developing a theory of rights grounded in post-structural philosophy and ethics of alterity. Dee is currently working as a Professor in Human Rights and Jurisprudence (and a Vice Dean) at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She spends her autumn lecturing in Finland and commutes between continents through the academic year. You can find a fuller list of her publications here. She is also the host of the Conversations at the End of the World podcast.

Dee's academic books

Visual Power, Representation and Migration Law: Framing Migrants analyses the dominant imagery focusing to migration and illustrates how the dominant framing of migrants as subjects positions them for exclusion and marginalisation. It focuses on comparative sources derived from public and media visual campaigns and illustrates how the ethical gap between the migrant and the host-centric way of looking creates the suspicion of the migrant and broadens the gap between the host and the guest.

Rights, Religious Pluralism and the Recognition of Difference focuses on religious pluralism as an emerging legal principle within European human rights regime. It critically evaluates  the static shape religious pluralism has assumed and shows how difference is vulnerable to elimination, rather than recognition. Philosophically the book proposes a reconstruction based on  ethics of alterity and a more difference-friendly vision of religious pluralism.

Feminism, Postfeminism and Legal Theory is an edited volume examining the idea of postfeminism and assessing its contemporary relevance. It asks whether postfeminism describes an age that follows modernism where feminism is no longer needed or alternatively feminism of a postmodernist age where the notion of identity becomes fluid and difficult to capture.

Europe at the Edge of Pluralism is an edited volume that deals with legal accommodation of diversity in Europe. It shows struggles with recognition of minorities and the heterogeneity of European societies.