Assize Seminars: Cutting Edge Criminal Law

Friday 9 November 2018

Assize Seminars: Cutting Edge Criminal Law

Speakers: 
Dr Hannah Quirk, Reader in Criminal Law, King's College, London

Rudi Fortson QC, 25 Bedford Row and Visiting Professor, Queen Mary, University of London

Sir Tony Bottoms, Emeritus Wolfson Professor of Criminology at the University of Cambridge

Commentators:
Prof. Jonathan Herring, Professor of Law, University of Oxford and Fellow of Exeter College

Katie Wheatley, of Bindmans LLP

Dame Maura McGowan, Judge of the High Court and a Presiding Judge of the South Eastern Circuit

Registration via Eventbrite.

About the event: 
The Assize Seminars series is convened by Matthew Dyson (Oxford, Chair), Mark Dsouza (UCL), Paul Jarvis (CBA), and Findlay Stark (Cambridge)

The Assize Seminars provide a space for cutting edge academic work to play a practical role in understanding and developing the law. They are a chance to challenge, debate and refine criminal justice, providing a bridge from academia to criminal legal practice. Just like the Assize of old, the seminars are peripatetic, in this case rotating over the next 18 months between three leading academic institutions: Oxford, Cambridge and University College London, all with the support of the Criminal Bar Association.

Papers:

“Limitations to Loss of Self Control” (title tbc)
Dr Hannah Quirk

Comment: Prof. Jonathan Herring

“Making Dishonesty Fit the Crime”
Rudi Fortson QC

Comment: Katie Wheatley

“The Role of Equity Factors in Sentencing”
Sir Tony Bottoms

Comment: Dame Maura McGowan