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In this seminar, Prof. Nicola Lacey will sketch Hanna Pickard’s and her current project, which seeks to reconceive criminal punishment so as to realise institutional counterparts of the interpersonal practices of forgiveness.  As well as setting out the main claims they hope to make, and the challenges which they face, Prof. Lacey will also consider the more general question of what role ideas which find their primary reference point in interpersonal life have, and should have, in efforts at legal reconstruction.

Speaker: Nicola Lacey is School Professor of Law, Gender and Social Policy at the London School of Economics.  She is a Fellow of the British Academy, served as a member of the British Academy’s Policy Group on Prisons, which reported in 2014, and was from 2014-2019 the Academy’s nominee on the Board of the British Museum. In 2011 she was awarded the Hans Sigrist Prize by the University of Bern, for scholarship on the rule of law in modern societies; and in 2022 she won the Law and Society Association’s International Prize. Her publications include A Life of HLA Hart (OUP 2004); Women, Crime and Character: From Moll Flanders to Tess of the D’Urbervilles (2008); The Prisoners’ Dilemma (2008), and In Search of Criminal Responsibility (2016).

Discussant: Dr Galia Schneebaum is a lecturer at the Harry Radzyner Law School at Reichman University. Her research is at the intersection of criminal law, sociological, and political theory, and focuses on emerging conceptions of wrongdoing in the law. Galia's research covers a variety of topics, among which are the legal regulation of authority relations, sex offenses, criminalization theory, and the legal regulation of boycotts.

Chair: Dr Andrew Benjamin Bricker, LHub & Ghent University 

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This event is free to attend, but booking is required.