Dr Elena Roxana Tudosie is a Legacy in Action Research Fellow at the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre. She holds a PhD in Law from The Open University, where her doctoral research examined assisted dying law reform in England and Wales, contributing to debates on autonomy, dignity, and the role of the state in end-of-life decision-making. She is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2018.
Dr Tudosie was previously a Senior Lecturer in Law at De Montfort University, with over a decade of teaching experience across undergraduate and postgraduate legal education. Her work is characterised by a strong commitment to inclusive pedagogy, curriculum innovation, and student engagement, alongside a sustained interest in the relationship between legal doctrine, ethics, and state power, particularly in terms of their impact on individuals navigating legal and institutional systems.
At the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre, her research marks a strategic shift towards questions of race, institutional power, and social justice. She is currently developing her first peer-reviewed publication, Racialised Death Governance: End-of-Life Law, Discretion and State Power in England and Wales, which examines how ostensibly neutral legal frameworks can reproduce racial inequalities in the governance of death and dying.
Her ambition is to develop a sustained programme of research that interrogates how law operates within racialised structures of power, contributing to the Centre’s mission to advance critical, impactful, and socially engaged scholarship.