Dr. Lindsay Farmer

Biography

Lindsay Farmer joined the School of Law in 1999. He studied law at the University of Edinburgh before obtaining an M.Phil. in Criminology from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. from the European University Institute, Florence. He has held teaching positions at the University of Strathclyde, Birkbeck College, University of London, and helped establish a new LLB course. He spent time as a visiting professor at the Center for Law and Society, University of California at Berkeley, as well as at the University of Toronto, Columbia University, and New York University. His publications include 'Making Modern Criminal Law: Criminalization and Civil Order' (Oxford 2016), and he is the editor of the New Criminal Law Review (2008-2012). In 2019, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy and in 2021, he became Vice-President (Publications and Conferences) of the British Academy. His research interests encompass criminal law and legal theory, particularly in the development of critical criminal law, the history of criminal law post-1800, and the relationship between criminal law and social theory.

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