Background
Lill Scherdin is presently Project Leader for the "Universities against death penalty" - worldwide network. Prior to this she was senior researcher and post doctor at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, the Faculty of Law University of Oslo.
She received her doctorate degree in 2004 for the thesis 'Control Cultures and Ethics Pinpointed' at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, The Faculty of Law, University of Oslo.
Research interests
Punishment and social structure, comparative studies of crime and control, human rights and the death penalty, Holocaust and genocide studies, processes of exclusion and criminalization.
She has also focused on the study of caste and the position of the Burakumin in Japanese society together with black people in the American South.
Scholarships, lectures and previous research
She was granted a Mombusho (Japanese State Scholarship), and also a Fullbright scholarship, and gave the honorary Fullbright lecture at Sam Houston University, Crime and Justice Center, Huntsville, Texas, USA. She has been a visiting researcher at Chuo University, Graduate School of Law in Hachiogi (Tokyo), Japan – and at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. She has been an expert advisor for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in five annual Human Rights Dialogues between Norway and Vietnam (2005 – 2010). She has been the initiator and organizer of a series of conferences and symposiums on punishment and the death penalty. Scherdin sat on the international committee for the thematic guidelines for the World Congress on the abolition of death penalty, Madrid, 2013. Her most recent publication is the forthcoming 'Capital Punishment: A Hazard to a Sustainable Criminal Justice System?' (Ashgate, February 2014).