Dishonesty and information provision in the bureaucratic state

Speaker: Professor Jeremy Horder (LSE)
Chair: Professor David Ormerod QC, Law Commissioner
Admission: Free
Accreditation: This event is accredited with 1 CPD hour with the SRA and BSB

Current Legal Problems 2014-15

Professor Horder will use an examination of the concept of dishonesty in criminal law as a way of considering a broader issue. This issue is the role of the criminal law in creating and maintaining the ‘bureaucratic’ state.

The question is, how should the criminal law be shaped so that the burdens of compliance with bureaucratic state demands are imposed in a fair way?

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About the speaker

Jeremy Horder is a Professor of Criminal Law at the LSE. He graduated from the Universities of Hull (1984) and Oxford (1986) before taking up a Research Fellowship at Jesus College, Oxford, from 1987-1989. He then became the Porjes Trust Tutorial Fellow in Law at Worcester College, Oxford, from 1989-2010. He was Chairman of Oxford’s Faculty of Law from 1998-2000.

From 2005-2010, he was a Law Commissioner for England and Wales, with responsibility for criminal law reform, before becoming Edmund Davies Professor of Criminal Law at King’s College London, from 2010-2013. He is an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple and holds an Honorary LL.D from the University of Hull.

About Current Legal Problems

The Current Legal Problems annual lecture series was established over sixty years ago. The lectures are public, delivered on a weekly basis and chaired by members of the judiciary.

The Current Legal Problems (CLP) annual volume is published on behalf of UCL Laws by Oxford University Press, and features scholarly articles that offer a critical analysis of important current legal issues. It covers all areas of legal scholarship and features a wide range of methodological approaches to law. With its emphasis on contemporary developments, CLP is a major point of reference for legal scholarship.

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