Centre for Law Crime & JusticeMeet our experts

The Right Honourable Professor Dame Elish Angiolini QC DBE

Dr Dominic Aitken

Key areas: Coercive Institutions (Prisons, Immigration Removal Centres); History & Politics of Criminal Justice

 

Mr Donnie Campbell

Key areas: criminal law, evidence 

Professor Rebecca Dobash

Key Areas: Sexual Killers; Domestic Violence; Homicide; Violence; Gender and Justice

Professor Russell Dobash

Key Areas: Sexual Killers; Domestic Violence; Homicide; Violence; Gender and Justice

Dr Michelle Donnelly

Key areas: Scottish children’s hearings system, child and family justice.

Dr Adam Harkens

Key areas: Surveillance, Artificial Intelligence, Policing, Legal & Political Theory

Niall Kearney, Chair of the European Forum for Restorative Justice

Key Area: Restorative Justice

Professor Tony Kelly

Key areas: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Human Rights

Dr Genevieve Lennon

Key Areas: Policing, Counter-Terrorism, accountability, human rights, and risk

Professor Nancy Loucks

Key areas: women offenders, the impact of sentencing on children and families, justice services, and the voluntary sector

Dr Jamie MacLean

Interests include: criminal justice and criminology, legal theory and legal history, international criminal law, and transitional justice.

Mary Munro

Key areas: financial penalties and justice; penal history; summary justice reform; community penalties; devolution and criminal justice policy

Professor Mike Nellis

Key areas: supervision of offenders in the community; community justice penal reform; popular culture and criminal justice; surveillance; electronic monitoring.

Therese O'Donnell

Key areas: human rights; hate speech; terrorism; war crimes, collective guilt, and transitional justice.

Professor Jane Scoular

Key areas: theories of gender and law; feminist legal theory; legal social and political aspects of sexwork; gender and crime; domestic violence.
Professor Cyrus Tata - Law School

Professor Cyrus Tata

Key interests include: sentencing and penal processes; access to justice; guilty pleas and plea bargaining; penal theory; discretionary decision-making; technology and justice.

Dr Rhonda Wheate

Key areas: criminal justice, criminal law, expert evidence, forensic science, jury trials

Dr John Wilson 

Key areas: ontologies for legal systems; biometric data; information technology decision support systems