Professor Jeremy Horder FBA

The history and theory of criminal and regulatory liability in English law; liability for bribery, corruption and homicide

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2014
Subjects: Law
Sections: Law
Website: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/staff/jeremy-horder.htm

Summary

My research interests concern English criminal law and penal regulation (their history, and philosophical foundations), and in anti-corruption law world-wide. I am currently working on the application of the offence of 'misconduct in a public office' to elected public officials.

Current post

Professor of Criminal Law, London School of Economics

Publications

Excusing Information-Provision Crimes in the Bureaucratic State 68 Current Legal Problems 2015

When Sexual Infidelity Triggers Murder: Examining The Impact Of Homicide Law Reform On Judicial Attitudes In Sentencing 74 Cambridge Law Journal 2015

Bureaucratic “Criminal” law: Too Much of a Bad Thing? RA Duff et al (eds), Criminalisation: The Political Morality of the Criminal Law 2014

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Lionel Smith FBA

Lionel Smith’s latest book, 'The Law of Loyalty', was published by OUP in 2023. He is the author of 'The Law of Tracing' (OUP 1997) and a co-author of 'Waters’ Law of Trusts' in Canada, 5th edn (Carswell 2021).

Professor Jane Stapleton FBA

The private law of obligations; comparative common law; compensation systems; judicial reasoning and the philosophical foundations of the common law in areas such as causation and the duty of care

Professor Emily Jackson FBA

Medical law, especially the regulation of assisted reproduction; end of life decision-making and the regulation of the pharmaceutical industry

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