Zoe Bantleman

Migration Studies (2024 cohort)

Zoe is conducting a symptomatic analysis of legal judgments on issues of movement, migration, protection, and nationality, to interrogate how judicial indeterminacy is resolved when confronted with alterity and how hospitality is conditioned by judicial decision-making.

She has a Bachelor of Laws from Durham University and a Master of Laws from the LSE. As a barrister, Legal Director of the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (‘ILPA’), and editor of the Journal of Immigration, Nationality and Asylum Law, Zoe has spent her career in the United Kingdom writing, teaching legal professionals, and conducting court, policy, and parliamentary advocacy. She has presented her research and work at numerous conferences, roundtables, workshops, and seminars, including at Queen Mary University of London’s (B)Orders Centre, the Society of Legal Scholars, the UKRI GCRF Gender, Justice, and Security Hub, University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre, Refugee Law Initiative, Public Law Project, Human Trafficking Foundation Advisory Forum, the LSE, the Critical Legal Conference, and Derrida Today Conference. In addition to a number of published case notes, she has authored ‘Hong Kong BN(O)s Caught Between Empires: Crouching Lion, Hidden Dragon’ and the forthcoming article ‘The Practice of Everyday Engagement’.