10 Facts About Renata Salecl

Renata Salecl was born on 1962 and is a Slovene philosopher, sociologist and legal theorist.

Renata Salecl is a senior researcher at the Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law at the University of Ljubljana, and holds a professorship at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Renata Salecl has been a visiting professor at the London School of Economics, lecturing on the topic of emotions and law.

Renata Salecl studied philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, graduating with a thesis on Michel Foucault's theory of power under the supervision of the Marxist philosopher Bozidar Debenjak.

Renata Salecl's work focuses on bringing together law, criminology and psychoanalysis.

Renata Salecl has worked on the theories of punishment, and on the analysis of the relation between late capitalist insistence on choice and the increased feelings of anxiety and guilt in post-modern subjects.

Renata Salecl was a Centennial Professor at the department of law at the London School of Economics and is a visiting professor at the LSE's BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society, and holds a full professorship at the School of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Renata Salecl often teaches as visiting professor at Cardozo School of Law in New York.

Renata Salecl has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin, visiting professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin, visiting humanities professor at George Washington University in Washington, DC, and visiting professor at Duke University.

Renata Salecl writes columns in various European newspapers, including Delo and La Vanguardia.