Lucia Zedner FBA (born 20 February 1961) is a British legal scholar.

[2] She studied at the University of York, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree.

She later became a lecturer in Law at the London School of Economics where she was, beginning in 1991, assistant director of the Manheim Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice.

In 1994, Zedner returned to Oxford to become a Law Fellow at Corpus Christi College and rejoined the Centre for Criminology.

[5] Zedner's teaching and research interests include penal theory, comparative criminology, victims, security, risk and anti-terrorist policy.