DPhil Migration Studies Student
St Catherine's College
ESRC Grand Union DTP Scholar
zoe.bantleman@stcatz.ox.ac.uk
Research
Zoe is conducting a symptomatic analysis of legal judgments on issues of movement, migration, protection, and nationality, which she terms “the common law of hospitality”, to interrogate how judicial indeterminacy is resolved when confronted with alterity and how hospitality is conditioned by judicial decision-making.
Zoe is interested in researching intersections of migrancy, jurisprudence, and critical theory and keeping alive law’s potential for at least temporary and local change.
Experience
As a barrister, Legal Director of the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA), and an 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, across Europe and the UK.
Education
Zoe has a Bachelor of Laws from Durham University and a Master of Laws from the LSE, where she helped co-found and co-edit the LSE Law Review and co-edit the LSE Amnesty International Journal 2016: Human Rights and Global Governance.
Publications
Bantleman Z, ‘The Practice of Everyday Engagement’ (2024) 38(4) JIANL
Bantleman Z, ‘R (AAA (Syria) & Ors) v Secretary of State for the Home Department’ [2023] UKSC 42 (note) (2024) 38(3) JIANL 275-286
Bantleman Z, ‘Goodbye Refuge, Hello Bespokism’ (2023) Völkerrechtsblog doi: 10.17176/20230310-185027-0
Bantleman Z, ‘The government’s Rwanda policy: is discrimination justified? AAA and Others v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] EWHC 3230 (Admin)’ (2023) 78(1047) Briefings 38-44
Bantleman Z, ‘Hong Kong BN(O)s Caught Between Empires: Crouching Lion, Hidden Dragon’ (2021) 35(4) JIANL 337-379
Bantleman Z, ‘R (Akinola & Anor) v Upper Tribunal & Anor’ [2021] EWCA Civ 1308 (note) (2022) 36(2) JIANL 152-161
Bantleman Z, ‘Hoque & Ors v The Secretary of State for the Home Department’ [2020] EWCA Civ 1357 (note) (2021) 35(1) JIANL 50-58
Bantleman Z, ‘Supreme Court decides the standards for judicial review of public policies’ (2021) LexisNexis
Supervised by Catherine Briddick (Refugee Studies Centre)
