Professor Catharine A MacKinnon FBA

Equality, specialising in sex and gender, in law, theory and politics, encompassing constitutional law, international law, criminal law, civil and human rights, including comparative, jurisprudence, political and legal theory. Critical engagement with national and international laws of sexual assault proposing creative initiatives toward gender equality transforming legal and social responses to sexual violation and gender hierarchy
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Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2024
Honours
FBA
Subjects
Law
Sections
Law

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Professor Ngaire Naffine FBA

Legal philosophy; criminal law theory; criminal justice and criminology; legal conceptual analysis especially the concept of the person; feminist legal theory

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Professor Paul Roberts FBA

Criminal evidence and procedure, especially philosophical, comparative, socio-legal and jurisprudential dimensions; legal argumentation, inferential reasoning, fact-finding and proof; forensic science evidence and expert witnesses; criminal law theory

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Professor David Garland FBA

Social theory; the sociology of punishment and control; historical and comparative analysis of legal institutions; the history and sociology of welfare states; sociology of law; criminological theory

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