Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice Lectures and Seminars

Speaker: Professor Kent Roach, Professor of Law, University of Toronto This talk defined the distinct but overlapping concepts of miscarriages of justice, wrongful convictions and proven innocence. The three distinct and overlapping concepts are analysed as what Guido Calabresi and Philip Bobbitt have called a 'tragic choice' approach to allocating scarce resources. For more info

Speaker: Professor Kent Roach, Professor of Law, University of Toronto This talk defined the distinct but overlapping concepts of miscarriages of justice, wrongful convictions and proven innocence. The three distinct and overlapping concepts are analysed as what Guido Calabresi and Philip Bobbitt have called a 'tragic choice' approach to allocating scarce resources. For more info

An event in honour of Professor Emeritus Nicky Padfield. On 27 March 2023 the Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice held a workshop in honour of Nicky Padfield entitled 'Criminal Justice Conversations: Experiencing and Researching Criminal Justice'. In September 2022, Professor Nicky Padfield formally retired from the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge. She has left an

An event in honour of Professor Emeritus Nicky Padfield. On 27 March 2023 the Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice held a workshop in honour of Nicky Padfield entitled 'Criminal Justice Conversations: Experiencing and Researching Criminal Justice'. In September 2022, Professor Nicky Padfield formally retired from the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge. She has left an

An event in honour of Professor Emeritus Nicky Padfield. On 27 March 2023 the Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice held a workshop in honour of Nicky Padfield entitled 'Criminal Justice Conversations: Experiencing and Researching Criminal Justice'. In September 2022, Professor Nicky Padfield formally retired from the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge. She has left an

Professor Jonathan Jacobs is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute of Criminal Justice Ethics at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York City, whose publications include: Choosing Character: Responsibility for Virtue and Vice (2001) and the Routledge Handbook of Criminal Justice Ethics (co-edited with Jonathan Jackson, 2017). Professor Jacobs spoke at the Ins

Professor Dr Jennifer Ann Drobac of Indiana University (Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall) was a guest at a joint CCCJ/Cambridge Socio-legal Group event on 2 February 2017.

An event in honour of Professor Emeritus Nicky Padfield. On 27 March 2023 the Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice held a workshop in honour of Nicky Padfield entitled 'Criminal Justice Conversations: Experiencing and Researching Criminal Justice'. In September 2022, Professor Nicky Padfield formally retired from the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge. She has left an

The Assize Seminars provide a space for cutting-edge academic work to play a practical role in understanding and developing the law. They are a chance to challenge, debate and refine criminal justice, providing a bridge from academia to criminal legal practice. Just like the Assize of old, the seminars are peripatetic. The third Assize seminar took place in Cambridge on 27 April 2

The Assize Seminars provide a space for cutting-edge academic work to play a practical role in understanding and developing the law. They are a chance to challenge, debate and refine criminal justice, providing a bridge from academia to criminal legal practice. Just like the Assize of old, the seminars are peripatetic. The third Assize seminar took place in Cambridge on 27 April