Barbara Huber Scholarship Holders

Alessandro Corda is a Reader in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at Queen’s University Belfast School of Law, where he served as Director of the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice from 2021 to 2024. Prior to joining Queen’s, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Minnesota Law School, a Research Scholar at NYU School of Law, and a Visiting Research Fellow at Yale Law School.

He holds an LL.B. and J.D. summa cum laude from the University of Pavia School of Law (Italy), a PhD in Criminal Law and Penal Policy from the University of Pavia, and an LL.M. from NYU School of Law, where he was awarded the prestigious Hauser Global Scholarship. Corda has been a Visiting Professor at the Pompeu Fabra University School of Law (Spain) and the University of Milan School of Law.

He is a Fellow at the Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at the University of Minnesota Law School, co-founder and co-chair of the European Society of Criminology’s Working Group on Collateral Consequences of Criminal Records, and a member of both the Law and Society Association's Collaborative Research Network on Punishment and Society and the Anglo-German Dialogue project on Core Concepts in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice.

His research explores criminal law, sentencing, comparative criminal justice, the sociology of punishment, and the impact of new technologies on the administration of criminal justice. His work is widely published in leading journals and edited collections and is frequently cited in both Europe and North America.

William Alex Pridemore is Department Head and Franklin Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Georgia. He is a Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Society of Criminology. Pridemore received his PhD from the School of Criminal Justice at SUNY-Albany, where he later served a five-year term as Dean.

He also spent a year as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. He played a central role in the creation of the Annual Review of Criminology and served as a founding Editorial Board member. For 17 years, he was the American Society of Criminology’s liaison to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. With Karen Parker, he revived US News & World Report’s ranking of PhD programs in Criminology.

Pridemore’s research interests include the impact of social structure and culture on homicide and suicide rates, the role of alcohol in violence and mortality, the social determinants of health, measurement and methodology, and the effects of policy on outcomes such as violence and health. He has published more than 110 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including leading journals in criminology, sociology, public health, epidemiology, and drug and alcohol studies. He edited a volume on law, crime, and justice in Russia and, with Marieke Liem, co-edited a volume on European homicide research.

Jasmine Sommardal holds a PhD in Law from the European University Institute, where her dissertation examined "National Security and the European Court of Human Rights: Mediating Challenges through Interdependent Interpretation."

Her research interests include the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and national security, general doctrines and methodologies of human rights law, and the practice and procedure of international courts. Sommardal is an associate editor of the ECHR Blog, a former visiting researcher at the Hertie School in Berlin, and has held editorial positions with the European Journal of International Law and the European Journal of Legal Studies.

She has also worked in the Legal Service of the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and served as a legal assistant to Judge Spano at the ECtHR.