2018
17 October 2018
Lessons from analogising natural and corporate persons in the criminal law
Mark Dsouza (UCL)
14 November 2018
Can increasing diversity contribute to reducing disproportionate criminal justice outcomes?
Tara Lai Quinlan (Sheffield)
5 December 2018
Hybrid theories of punishment
Zachary Hoskins (Nottingham)
23 January 2019
Gender discrimination and juries in the 20th century: Judging women judging men
Andrew Choo (City)
13 February 2019
Sexual intimacy, gender identity and fraud
Alex Sharpe (Keele)
13 March 2019
Transnational corporate crime
Samuel W. Buell (Duke)
2017
12 January 2017
Rethinking the moral grammar of penal justice
Alan Norrie (Warwick)
2 February 2017
Punishment and crisis: Politics, economy, and penalty in Italy since the Euro crisis
Zelia Gallo (KCL)
23 February 2017
Criminalisation without punishment
James Edwards (Oxford)
16 March 2017
Criminal law, omissions, and the absence of action
Bebhinn Donnelly-Lazarov (Swansea)
27 April 2017
The grounds for proportionate punishment
Ambrose Lee (Derby)
4 May 2017
Questioning culpability: Lessons from soterial-legal history
Chloë Kennedy (University of Edinburgh)
2016
21 January 2016
Crimmigration in Sweden: Bans on begging and the logic of benevolent violence
Vanessa Barker (Stockholm University)
18 February 2016
Mercy, mitigation, and remorse
Hannah Maslen (University of Oxford)
10 March 2016
Book launch and discussion: Making the modern criminal law: criminalization and civil order
Lindsay Farmer (Glasgow)
17 March 2016
Defendant participation in the criminal process
Abenaa Owusu-Bempah (City University, London)
28 April 2016
Criminalization from a public law perspective’
Vincent Chiao (Toronto)
22 September 2016
Implicit bias, self-defence, and the reasonable person
Jules Holroyd (Sheffield)
13 October 2016
Understanding the police
Josh Bowers (Virginia)
27 October 2016
Thought crime
Gabriel Mendlow (Michigan)
24 November 2016
The dual penal state
Markus Dubber (Toronto)
8 December 2016
Bad character, tragic mistakes, and the puzzle of uncertainty
Liat Levanon (Brunel)
2015
15 January 2015
Private security and regulatory space: in search of the public interest
Prof. Ian Loader (University of Oxford) and Dr Adam White (University of York)
29 January 2015
Wrongs and crimes
Prof. Victor Tadros (University of Warwick)
19 February 2015
Rehabilitation, risk and rights: a gendered approach to therapeutic interventions in prison
Prof. Elaine Player (King’s College London) and Elaine Genders (University College London)
26 February 2015
The authority of the criminal law
Dr Christopher Bennett (University of Sheffield)
12 March 2015
From slave abuse to hate crime: the criminalization of racial violence in American history: Seminar and book launch
Dr Ely Aharonson (University of Haifa)
23 April 2015
Seeing crime and managing security: reflections on the criminological gaze
Prof. Mariana Valverde FRSC (Professor of Criminology, Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto)
30 April 2015
Character in the criminal trial: Seminar and book launch
Prof. Mike Redmayne (Professor of Law, LSE Law)
17 June 2015
Legitimacy and criminal justice
Prof. Tracey Meares (Yale Law School)
Chair: Professor Robert Reiner
Respondents: Professor Mike Hough; Professor Alison Liebling; Professor Andrew Gamble
(Event co-organised with the LSE Mannheim Centre for Criminology)
1 October 2015
Incompatible ideas in criminal legal thought about the law of rape
Ngaire Naffine (University of Adelaide)
29 October 2015
The philosophical foundations of humane punishment
Antje du Bois-Pedain (University of Cambridge)
12 November 2015
Toxic torts or toxic crimes? The Italian approach to toxic disasters and their victims
Stefano Zirulia (Università degli Studi di Milano)
9 December 2015
Reasonable doubt and epistemology of disagreement
Youngjae Lee (Fordham University)
2014
21 January 2014
The roots of different penological identities in Europe and the U.S.
Dr Michele Pifferi (University of Ferrara)
11 February 2014
The criminal jurisdiction of occupation courts under law and morality
Dr Alejandro Chehtman (School of Law, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires)
25 February 2014
Contempt of court
Prof. David Ormerod (Law Commissioner for Criminal Law and Evidence and Professor of Criminal Justice, QMUL School of Law)
18 March 2014
The presumption of innocence: lost and found?
Prof. Paul Roberts (Professor of Criminal Jurisprudence, School of Law, University of Nottingham)
8 May 2014
Preventive justice
Prof. Andrew Ashworth (Oxford) and Prof. Lucia Zedner (Oxford) Seminar and book launch Discussants: Prof. Nicola Lacey (LSE), Prof. Jeremy Horder (LSE), Dr Peter Ramsay (LSE)
16 October 2014
The responsible subject as dangerous subject: criminal law’s ambivalences
Dr Henrique Randau da Costa Carvalho (City University London)
12 November 2014
What is penal populism? Politics, the public, and penological expertise
(Event co-organised with the LSE Mannheim Centre for Criminology)
Prof. David Garland (Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology, New York University)
20 November 2014
Fair play without retribution
Dr Patrick Tomlin (University of Reading)
4 December 2014
The social contribution injustice of punishment
Dr Kimberley Brownlee (University of Warwick)
2013
5 November 2013
Democratic authority and the duty to fight unjust wars
Dr Massimo Renzo (University of Warwick)
19 November 2013
What are the sexual offences?
Prof. Stuart Green (Distinguished Professor of Law and Nathan L. Jacobs Scholar, Rutgers School of Law)
3 December 2013
Historicising criminal responsibility: what about the twentieth century?
Dr Arlie Loughnan (School of Law, University of Sydney)