Penny Green

Penny Green is Professor of Law and Globalisation, Head of the School of Law and Founder/Director of the International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) at Queen Mary, University of London. Professor Green has published extensively on state crime, state violence, mass forced evictions/displacement and resistance to state violence. She has a long track record of researching in hostile environments and has conducted fieldwork in the UK, Turkey, Kurdistan, Palestine/Israel, Tunisia, and Myanmar. Professor Green’s most recent projects include a comparative study of civil society resistance to state crime in Turkey, Tunisia, Colombia, PNG, Kenya, and Myanmar; Myanmar’s genocide against its Muslim ethnic Rohingya; and forced evictions in Palestine/Israel. In 2015, she and her ISCI colleagues, Thomas MacManus and Alicia de la Cour Venning, published the seminal Countdown to Annihilation: Genocide in Myanmar and in 2018 published, Genocide Achieved: Genocide Continues. Her books include State Crime: Governments, Violence and Corruption (2004) and State Crime and Civil Activism (2019).