Yu Zhou
2991209Z@student.gla.ac.uk
Research title: Abuse of Unequal Status and Power? A Model of Coercion in Authority Relations
Research Summary
Authority, when abused by the strong, is highly susceptible to leading to the submission of the weak. Yu's proposed research will examine the operation between authority, coercion, and consent in a legal context, and seek to develop a more rounded theory of the model of coercion in authority relations and its importance in the context of criminalisation. It will also analyse the flaws of two criminal offences associated with the model – sexual abuses of positions of trust and misconduct in public office (MiPO).
Grants
- 2024-2027 College of Social Sciences (CoSS) Scholarship
Additional Information
Biography
Yu completed an LLB degree at Anhui University in China from 2018-2022. Following this, she attended the LLM programme in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at the University of Edinburgh from 2022-2023 and was awarded as merit. Her master's dissertation focused on authority relations and invisible coercion in Scots law on sexual abuse of trust and achieved a distinction.
Yu started her PhD in law at the University of Glasgow in September 2024.