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Public engagement

Professor Nicola Lacey is an Associate of the International Inequalities Institute at LSE. She has held a number of visiting appointments, most recently at Harvard Law School.  She is an Honorary Fellow of New College Oxford and of University College Oxford; a Fellow of the British Academy; and a member of the Board of Trustees of the British Museum. Professor Jeremy Horder is a former Law Commissioner for England and Wales (2005-2010), and a Fellow of the British Academy. He led law reform projects resulting in the passing of the Bribery Act 2010, the homicide provisions of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, and the inchoate crime provisions of the Serious Crime Act 2007. Together with Karen Yeung (King’s College London), he advised the Berwick Enquiry on the introduction of a new offence of wilful neglect of a patient, which was introduced by the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015. He worked with Transparency International in devising a new system of ‘unexplained wealth orders’, a new court process to recover the proceeds of crime and corruption in the UK, which was enacted in the Criminal Finances Act 2017. Richard Martin regularly presents his research to senior police, policymakers and lawyers. In 2021, he was appointed to the College of Policing’s Code of Ethics Review Committee. Over a two-year period, the Committee is assisting the College with reviewing and updating the Code of Ethics that governs police officers and staff in England and Wales. Richard was an independent reviewer for Home Office’s Evidential Review of Pre-Charge Bail (January 2021) and is involved in the National Police Chief Council’s Protest Working Group. Most recently, Richard became a co-author of the Northern Ireland Peace Monitoring Report, commissioned, funded and published by the Community Relations Council, an Arm's Length Body of the Northern Ireland Executive. Abenaa Owusu-Bempah has worked on challenging the use of rap music as evidence in criminal proceedings, featured in numerous media reports and documentaries, including for the Guardian, BBC, The Times, and Channel 4. Abenaa’s work on hate crime has informed the development of hate crime policy, including prosecution guidance on Racial and Religious Hate Crime, and law reform reviews and proposals in England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Abenaa regularly consults and advises on research and policy projects related to criminal justice, procedure and evidence, including the Howard League for Penal Reform and Black Legal Protest’s guide for anti-racist lawyers, 'Making Black Lives Matter in the Criminal Justice System', and the recent report, ‘Racial Bias And The Bench: A response to the Judicial Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (2020-2025)’.