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Since I joined LSE in 2006, my research has contributed to what is now known as the ‘political turn’ in criminal law theory. I write about the relation of criminal law to the evolution of the democratic sovereign state. I am currently working on two related projects: a theory of the criminal law as the branch of public law on which the state stakes its political authority, and the idea of the vulnerable citizen.
I studied Law at University College London and the University of Westminster, and Economics at the University of Nottingham. My PhD thesis, entitled ‘Vulnerability, Sovereignty and Police Power: A Theory of the ASBO’, was undertaken at King’s College London.
I am co-chair of the LSE staff network LSE Academic Freedom.
Research
- English criminal law
- Penal theory
- Political jurisprudence
- National sovereignty
- Democratic theory
- Vulnerability and the vulnerable subject
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Engagement and impact
‘The Right to Security in the Criminal Law’, LSE Law Ratio Podcast, 22 October 2024
‘Reconstituting the Nations: Britain and Ireland After Brexit’, Desmond Greaves Summer School lecture, Dublin, September 2024
‘Why the Nation Matters’, LSE Law School Event, 2 May 2024
‘A Community of Argument’, LSE Higher Education Blog, 20 October 2023
‘Brexit Has Stumped Britain’s Zombie Elites’, Unherd, 22 June 2023
‘A Delinquent Parliament Begets the Rule of Lawyers’, The Full Brexit, 27 September 2019
‘The EU Is a Default Empire of Nations in Denial’, LSE Brexit Blog, 14 March 2019
‘Letting Prisoners Vote Would Undermine the Idea that Civil Liberties Are Fundamental to Democratic Citizenship’ Democratic Audit, 7 November 2013