Professor Nicola Lacey

Nicola Lacey is School Professor of Law, Gender and Social Policy. From 1998 to 2010 she held a Chair in Criminal Law and Legal Theory at LSE; she returned to LSE in 2013 after spending three years as Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, and Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory at the University of Oxford. She is also an Associate of the at LSE, and sits on the Institute’s Steering Committee; an Affiliate of the Phelan US Centre, and sits on the Centre’s Advisory Board; and a member of the Editorial Board of the LSE Public Policy Review. She has held a number of visiting appointments, most recently at Harvard Law School and at the Australian National University. She is an Honorary Fellow of New College Oxford and of University College Oxford; a Fellow of the British Academy; and from 2015-19 she was a member of the Board of Trustees of the British Museum. In 2011 she was awarded the Hans Sigrist Prize by the University of Bern for outstanding scholarship on the function of the rule of law in late modern societies and in 2017 she was awarded a CBE for services to Law, Justice and Gender Politics. In 2022 she was awarded the Law and Society Association’s International Prize.

Administrative support: Law.Reception@lse.ac.uk

Full Curriculum Vitae

LSE Law Ratio Podcast episodes featuring Professor Lacey:-- 'Death by Infected Blood: Examining the Infected Blood Inquiry' [Spotify | Apple]
-- 'The Right to Security in the Criminal Law' [Spotify | Apple]
-- 'Constitutionalism, Rights, and Protecting Courts from Political Capture '[Spotify | Apple]