Dr. Elaine Freer

Biography

Elaine Freer is a part-time College Teaching Officer at Robinson College, where she supervises courses in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Evidence, Criminology, and Sentencing within the undergraduate program. She studied Law at the University of Cambridge and pursued her BPTC at Kaplan Law School, where she received the Lord Denning Scholarship from the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn. After completing her BPTC, she was awarded the Cloth Fair Scholarship by the Kalisher Trust. She returned to Cambridge to earn her MPhil in Criminology and later completed her PhD at Keele University, funded by the ACORN scholarship. Her research intersects socio-legal studies and focuses on how professional associations influence behavior within the legal profession. Freer has published several works, including co-authorship of books that delve into ancillary orders in criminal courts and the evolving trajectories in sentencing law. She has contributed to various conferences, discussing diversity in legal education and the implications of her research findings.

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