Staff profile

Dr Emma Milne joined Durham Law School in September 2020. Emma obtained her PhD in sociology from the University of Essex, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Following this Emma worked as a Lecturer in Criminology at Middlesex University and the University of Plymouth.

Teaching Areas

• Introduction to English Law and Legal Methods
• Criminal law
• Advanced Issues in Criminal Law

Emma is a Senior Fellow of the HEA and holds a Postgraduate Certificate of Higher Education (Middlesex University).

Research Areas

Emma is a feminist socio-legal scholar. The focus of her research is the social, legal, and cultural controls and regulation of all women, notably in relation to pregnancy, sex, and motherhood.

• Feminist legal studies
• Social and legal regulation of women's sexuality and bodies
• Criminal liability of pregnant women
• Women's reproductive rights/freedom
• Legal protection of the foetus
• Infanticide/neonaticide/maternal filicide
• Feminist criminology
• Women who offend
• Violent women
• Gender and crime

Authored book

• Criminal Justice Responses to Maternal Filicide: Judging the Failed Mother
  
  Milne, E. (2021). Criminal Justice Responses to Maternal Filicide: Judging the Failed Mother. Emerald Publishing Limited.
• Sex and Crime
  
  Fanghanel, A., Milne, E., Zampini, G. F., Banwell, S., & Fiddler, M. (2020). Sex and Crime. SAGE Publications.

Chapter in book

• Infanticide
  
  Milne, E. (in press). Infanticide. In C. Ashford & L. Graham (Eds.), Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Gender, Sexuality and the Law. Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Research Methods for Law and Gender
  
  Milne, E., & Bows, H. (2024). Research Methods for Law and Gender. In M. McConville & W. H. Chui (Eds.), Research Methods for Law. Edinburgh University Press.
• When birth and death collide: Maternal infanticide and the illusive born alive rule
  
  Milne, E. (2024). When birth and death collide: Maternal infanticide and the illusive born alive rule. In M. Trabsky & I. Jones (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Law and Death. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003304593-25
• The Infanticide Act 1938 as a means to provide justice for women against the hardships and harms of pregnancy and motherhood?
  
  Milne, E., & Brennan, K. (2023). The Infanticide Act 1938 as a means to provide justice for women against the hardships and harms of pregnancy and motherhood? In K. Brennan & E. Milne (Eds.), 100 Years of the Infanticide Act: Legacy, Impact and Future Directions. Bloomsbury.
• 100 Years of the Infanticide Act: The Law in Context
  
  Brennan, K., & Milne, E. (2023). 100 Years of the Infanticide Act: The Law in Context. In K. Brennan & E. Milne (Eds.), 100 Years of the Infanticide Act: Legacy, Impact and Future Directions. Bloomsbury.
• Why Gendering Green Criminology Matters
  
  Milne, E., Davies, P., Heydon, J., Peggs, K., & Wyatt, T. (2023). Why Gendering Green Criminology Matters. In E. Milne, P. Davies, J. Heydon, K. Peggs, & T. Wyatt (Eds.), Gendering Green Criminology (pp. 1-14). Bristol University Press.
• Introduction
  
  Banwell, S., Black, L., Cecil, D. K., Djamba, Y. K., Kimuna, S. R., Milne, E., Seal, L., & Tenkorang, E. Y. (2023). Introduction (S. Banwel, L. Black, D. K. Cecil, Y. K. Djamba, S. R. Kimuna, E. Milne, L. Seal, & E. Y. Tenkorang, Eds.; pp. 1-15). Emerald Publishing Limited. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80382-255-620231001
• Imprisoned Women and Reproductive Health: A Site of Reproductive Rights Violation?
  
  Milne, E., & Dabrowski, V. (2023). Imprisoned Women and Reproductive Health: A Site of Reproductive Rights Violation? In I. Masson & N. Booth (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Women’s Experiences of Criminal Justice. Routledge.
• Drinking in Pregnancy: Shifting Towards the ‘Precautionary Principle’
  
  Thom, B., Herring, R., & Milne, E. (2020). Drinking in Pregnancy: Shifting Towards the ‘Precautionary Principle’. In S. MacGregor & B. Thom (Eds.), Risk and Substance Use: Framing Dangerous People and Dangerous Places (pp. 66-87). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351033503
• Understanding Violent Women
  
  Milne, E., & Turton, J. (2018). Understanding Violent Women. In E. Milne, K. Brennan, N. South, & J. Turton (Eds.), Women and the Criminal Justice System (pp. 119-139). Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76774-1_6
• Criminalising Neonaticide: Reflections on Law and Practice in England and Wales
  
  Brennan, K., & Milne, E. (2018). Criminalising Neonaticide: Reflections on Law and Practice in England and Wales. In E. Milne, K. Brennan, N. South, & J. Turton (Eds.), Women and the Criminal Justice System (pp. 95-117). Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76774-1_5
• Women and the Criminal Justice System—Moving Beyond the Silo
  
  Brennan, K., Milne, E., South, N., & Turton, J. (2018). Women and the Criminal Justice System—Moving Beyond the Silo. In E. Milne, K. Brennan, N. South, & J. Turton (Eds.), Women and the Criminal Justice System (pp. 1-11). Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76774-1_1

Edited book

• 100 Years of the Infanticide Act: Legacy, Impact and Future Directions
  
  Brennan, K., & Milne, E. (Eds.). (2023). 100 Years of the Infanticide Act: Legacy, Impact and Future Directions. Bloomsbury.
• Gendering Green Criminology
  
  Milne, E., Davies, P., Heydon, J., Peggs, K., & Wyatt, T. (Eds.). (2023). Gendering Green Criminology. Bristol University Press.
• The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence
  
  Banwel, S., Black, L., Cecil, D. K., Djamba, Y. K., Kimuna, S. R., Milne, E., Seal, L., & Tenkorang, E. Y. (Eds.). (2023). The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence. Emerald Publishing Limited. https://doi.org/10.1108/9781803822556
• Women and the Criminal Justice System
  
  Milne, E., Brennan, K., South, N., & Turton, J. (Eds.). (2018). Women and the Criminal Justice System. Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76774-1

Journal Article

• The Need for Judicial Interpretation of the Infanticide Act 1938
  
  Brennan, K., & Milne, E. (2025). The Need for Judicial Interpretation of the Infanticide Act 1938. Journal of Criminal Law, 89(4), 193-226. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220183251365730
• Reproductive rights on the inside: A rapid evidence assessment of women’s experiences of reproductive healthcare and rights while in prison in England and Wales
  
  Dabrowski, V., & Milne, E. (2023). Reproductive rights on the inside: A rapid evidence assessment of women’s experiences of reproductive healthcare and rights while in prison in England and Wales. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 23(5), 675–693. https://doi.org/10.1177/17488958221117925
• Foetal Protection Laws: paving the way for the criminalisation of abortion
  
  Milne, E. (2022). Foetal Protection Laws: paving the way for the criminalisation of abortion. Feminists@law, 11(2).
• Putting the Fetus First — Legal Regulation, Motherhood, and Pregnancy
  
  Milne, E. (2020). Putting the Fetus First — Legal Regulation, Motherhood, and Pregnancy. Michigan Journal of Gender & Law, 27(1), 149-211. https://doi.org/10.36641/mjgl.27.1.putting
• Concealment of Birth: Time to Repeal a 200-Year-Old “Convenient Stop-Gap”?
  
  Milne, E. (2019). Concealment of Birth: Time to Repeal a 200-Year-Old “Convenient Stop-Gap”? Feminist Legal Studies, 27(2), 139-162. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-019-09401-6