Alex Antoniou

PhD Title: The New Criminal Offence of Possession of Extreme Pornographic Images (Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, ss. 63-7)
School/Centre: The City Law School
Email: alex.antoniou.1@city.ac.uk

Alex's PhD focuses on the new criminal offence of possession of extreme pornographic images (Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, ss. 63-7) and he is supervised by Prof Ian Loveland and Dr Jesse Elvin.

Alex was awarded a Degree in Law by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2006 and studied journalism (PDipJ) in Athens too. In 2008, he completed his LLM in Media Law at The City Law School and he was awarded a Masters (MA) in Cultural and Creative Industries by King's College, London a year later. He is also enrolled as an Advocate with the Athens Bar Association.

Alex has worked as a Researcher for The Sorrell Foundation on the 'Designing Out Crime' project, which was undertaken in partnership with the Home Office, Design Against Crime Alliance and the Design Council. He has explored several issues that young people identify about crime and how these might be resolved through technology and effective design. His research findings were published by The Sorrell Foundation.

Furthermore, his research interests lie in obscenity legislation, pornography and free speech, sexual portrayals and explicitness in print advertising, as well as in the relationship between popular culture and commerce.

Conferences

Alex has participated in the International Graduate Legal Research Conference (April 2011, King's College London), as well as in the Pushing Legal Knowledge Boundaries PhD Conference (June 2011, Queen Mary, University of London).

• 1st Graduate Student Conference in Comparative Literature, King's College London (June 2010):Lady Chatterley's Lover on both sides of the Atlantic: Is the judicial process appropriate for resolving issues of literary merit?

• 1st Annual London Film and Media Conference, Institute of Education (July 2011): Extreme Porn, the Law and the 'Casino Royale' Debate

• BSSN 5th Annual Conference: 'Hard Science? Sex, Science and Technology,' University of Brighton (September 2011) Regulating Extreme Pornography: A Workable Law?

• Subcultures, Popular Music and Social Change Symposium, London Metropolitan University (September 2011)'I wanna take a ride on your disco stick': Pop and the British Obscenity Legislation

• Pornified: Complicating debates about the 'sexualisation of culture': An International Conference, Institute of Education, London (December 2011)
  Criminalising Extreme Pornographic Images: Enforcement So Far

• Sexual Cultures Conference, co-hosted by the Obscenity Research Network and Brunel University, London (April 2012) The Strange Rise of Extreme Porn

• Understanding Britain 2012: The 1st Annual British Studies Conference, Institute of Education, University of London (June 2012)
  The British Obscenity law and the British Board of Film Classification: The Acquittal of Michael Peacock

• British Society of Criminology Annual Conference 2012, University of Portsmouth, Institute of Criminal Justice Studies (July 2012)
  Laundering Sexual Deviance: Targeting Online Pornography through Anti-money Laundering (co-authored paper with Gauri Sinha)