Chantal Frindall

Chantal Frindall is a Lecturer at the University of Brighton (2020) and previously was an Associate Tutor at the University of Surrey. She has been awarded her PhD (Kant's Dignity and Juridical Thinking) and an LLM in International Trade Law (EC Competition and Insolvency Law). In addition, Chantal is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. 

Her research lies at the intersection of Kant's moral philosophy, dignity and international human rights law, specifically the European Court of Human Rights and its Article 3 jurisprudence on domestic violence. Her work focuses explicitly on the deliberative capacity of the judge when tasked with adjudicating domestic violence issues, such as in the context of Article 3 of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), by analysing their perfect and imperfect obligations, which reveals an intermingling net of duties that provides a rationalisation for analysing the judges' duty of self-mastery in the legal setting. This idea encapsulates a perspective on Kant's dignity that illuminates an approach to judging, which shows domestic violence may cross the torture threshold in the context of Article 3 ECHR.