Professor Ian Loader

Professor of Criminology

LLB, MA, MSc, PhD, FBA, FRSA

University Academic Fellow since 2005

Ian Loader is Professor of Criminology. He is also an Honorary Professorial Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Ian is a Fellow of British Academy and the Royal Society for the Arts.

Ian is the author of numerous books, edited collections, theoretical and empirical papers, and works of public engagement on policing; private security; public sensibilities towards crime and justice; penal policy and culture; crime control and political ideologies, and the democratic purposes of criminology.

Ian's current work focuses of two projects, both of which are coalescing around aspects of environmental harm. He has recently completed fieldwork on a three-year study entitled ‘Place, crime and insecurity in everyday life’ funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, and is now writing papers and a book based on the research. The study – conducted with Evi Girling (Keele), Richard Sparks (Edinburgh) and Ben Bradford (UCL) – investigates how people living in one English town, Macclesfield in Cheshire, talk about and act towards a range of threats that they regard as impinging upon their safety (their personal bodily integrity, their property, their locality, their wider habitat). A theoretical prospectus for the study has been published in the Oxford Handbook of Criminology, in addition to papers in the British Journal of Criminology and Criminological Encounters. A summary of project findings can be found here.

Ian is also developing a new line of research on criminology and the harms of automobility. A background article for this project has been published in the Annual Review of Criminology, as well as a brief paper on 15 minute cites and auto-freedom. The project seeks to use the car, and systems of automobility, as an object through which to explore what it means practice criminology in the midst of a climate breakdown. Further papers are planned. Ian is also teaching a new graduate seminar on ‘Criminology and the car’.

Contact:ian.loader@crim.ox.ac.uk

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Background

University Academic Fellow, All Souls College (from 2005)
Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, Professor of Criminology, Keele University (from 1992 to 2005)
Lecturer in Criminology and Jurisprudence at the University of Edinburgh (from 1990 to 1992)
Postgraduate, University of Edinburgh (from 1987 to 1993)
Lecturer in Law, Liverpool Polytechnic (from 1986 to 1987)
Undergraduate, University of Sheffield (from 1983 to 1986)

Research Interests

Policing and security;
everyday in/securities;
the politics of crime and justice;
environmental harms,
criminology and automobility;
criminology and social and political theory.

Selected publications

Ian’s publications can be found here - https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/people/ian-loader

Other professional memberships and roles

Ian is Editor-in-Chief of the Howard Journal of Crime and Justice.
Ian has recently been a member a member of the Advisory Board for the Strategic Review of Policing in England and Wales and of the Research Advisory Board of the Canada/Nova Scotia Mass Casualty Commission.

Teaching

Public and private policing
Politics of crime control
Criminology and the car

Ian supervises doctoral students working on the sociology of policing and security. He is particularly keen to work with students and post-doctoral researchers addressing problems of everyday in/securities, environmental harms, criminology and automobility, and the politics of security and justice.

Research awards and grants

£993,504 from Economic and Social Research Council for a project entitled ‘Place, Crime and Insecurity in Everyday Life: A Contemporary Study of an English Town’ (with B. Bradford, E. Girling and R. Sparks). (2019-2023)

Sir Jeremy Lever

Barrister, Monckton Chambers, London and Queen's Counsel

Law

KCMG, KC, MA

Honorary Fellow since 2017

I continue to work in the field of development and reform of the institutions and operations of the European Union, with particular reference to the problems associated with Economic and Monetary Union and with their consequences and the potential long term effects if the United Kingdom were to secede from the European Union. The other topic that has principally engaged my attention has been the legal effects of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights on the procedures of the European Commission in cases relating to the grant of State aid by Member States.

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Background

Chairman, Appeals Panel, PRS (from 1997 to 2002)
Chairman, Oftel Advisory Body on Fair Trading in Telecommunications (from 1996 to 2000)
Distinguished Fellow, All Souls College (from 1996 to 2017)
Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 1965 to 1996)
Appointed Queen’s Counsel in Northern Ireland (1988)
Appointed Queen’s Counsel in England and Wales (1972)
Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1957 to 1964)
Postgraduate, Nuffield College, Oxford (from 1956 to 1957)
Undergraduate and Postgraduate, University College, Oxford (from 1953 to 1957)

Research Interests

Economics and the law
Comparative law
Public International Law

Selected publications

The Law of Restrictive Practices (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1964).
Numerous articles in learned journals relating to research interests

Other professional memberships and roles

Lord Fletcher Memorial, Law Society (1997)
Hamlyn, Hamlyn Trust (1991)
Governor, Berkhamsted School (from 1985 to 1995)
Visiting Professor, Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin für Sozialforschung (1999)
Non-executive Director of Dunlop Holdings (from 1973 to 1980)
Non-executive Director of Wellcome plc (from 1983 to 1994)
Member of Arbitral Tribunal, US/UK Arbitration concerning Heathrow Airport User Charges (from 1989 to 1994)
Bencher, Gray’s Inn (1985)
Grotius Lecture and Member Council, British Institute of International and Comparative Law (from 1987 to 2004)
Oxford Union Society (President, 1957; Trustee, 1972-7 and since 1988)

Teaching

Former Consulting Editor, Bellamy & Child, EC Competition Law, and Butterworth’s Competition Law
Co-editor, Comparative Law Textbook on Tort Law (Metro Institute for Transnational Legal Research, Maastricht)

Professor Colin Kidd

Professor of Modern History, School of History, University of St Andrews

MA, DPhil, FBA, FRHistS, FRSE, FSAScot

Quondam Fellow since 2019

My current research focuses on the intellectual history of the English Enlightenment and its nineteenth-century aftermath, particularly in fields such as antiquarianism, mythography and religious apologetic. Eventually, many years hence, these obsessions will intersect with an emerging interest in the history - and prehistory - of British anthropology. I am at my happiest riding these particular hobbyhorses, but I also have a stable of other subjects which fascinate me. These include constitutional theory, British as well as American, and the church history of my native county of Ayrshire in the age of Enlightenment. However, I am alert to the possibility that the parishes of eighteenth-century Fife might yield up treasures of their own to delight the connoisseur of theological controversy.

Background

Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 2005)
Professor of Intellectual History and the History of Political Thought, Queen's University, Belfast (from 2010 to 2012)
Professor of Modern History, University of Glasgow (from 1994 to 2010)
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1992 to 1994)
Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1987 to 1992)
Visiting Choate Fellow, Harvard University (from 1985 to 1986)
Undergraduate, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (from 1982 to 1985)

Research Interests

Ethnicity in the Atlantic world, 1600-2000
Constitutional law and theory, British and American
Scottish Church history and political thought, 1600-2000
Early modern and modern British intellectual history

Selected publications

Union and Unionisms: Political Thought in Scotland, 1500-2000 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World 1600-2000 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
British Identities before Nationalism: Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
Subverting Scotland’s Past: Scottish Whig Historians and the Creation of an Anglo-British Identity, 1689-c. 1830 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
Publications (External Link)

Other professional memberships and roles

Carlyle Lectures in History of Political Thought, University of Oxford (2006)
British Petroleum-Royal Society of Edinburgh Prize Lectureship in the Humanities (2002)
Editor of the Scottish Historical Review (from 1999 to 2004)

Teaching

Undergraduate teaching at Glasgow University: intellect and culture in nineteenth-century Scotland
North Britons: patriotism and identity in eighteenth-century Scotland
Scottish Enlightenment and Scottish society
Politics, religion, and British state formation 1707-1843
The American constitution: past and present
Postgraduate teaching: issues, ideologies and institutions of Modern Scotland
Culture and identity in the age of Ossian, Burns, and Scott
Race, nationhood, and ethnicity

Edward Hussey

Classical Studies

Emeritus Fellow since 2007

Background

Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 2007)
Extraordinary Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1969 to 2007)
Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1962 to 1969)

Professor Jane Humphries

Economics

CBE, BA, MA, PhD, FBA

Emeritus Fellow since 2017

Jane Humphries published two refereed articles and edited and introduced two special issues of journals. Three book chapters are in press. Research using working women’s autobiographies based on her ESRC funded Memories of Industriousness: The Industrial Revolution and the Household Economy is ongoing. New projects include: women’s wages in the very long run (with Jacob Weisdorf); and trends in consumption from records of burglary and housebreaking (with Sara Horrell). She is an editor, with Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson, of a new edition of the Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain (forthcoming). She is the Chair of the History Faculty Board.

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Background

Professor of Economic History and University Academic Fellow, All Souls College (from 1998 to 2017)
University Lecturer, then Reader (1995-98) in Economics and Economic History, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge (from 1980 to 1998)
Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA (from 1973 to 1979)
Postgraduate, Cornell University (from 1970 to 1973)
Undergraduate, Newnham College, Cambridge (from 1967 to 1970)

Research Interests

Economic history
Growth and development
Labour markets
Child labour in the British industrial revolution
History of women’s work
Relationship between the family and the economy
Gender and economics

Selected publications

Publications (External Link)

Other professional memberships and roles

For list of professional membersips and roles, please refer to CV

Research awards and grants

For details of awards and grants, please refer to CV.

Professor Peregrine Horden

Professor of Medieval History, Royal Holloway, University of London

Fellow Librarian, All Souls College

History

MA, FRHistS, FSA

Official Fellow since 2021

Background

Extraordinary Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 2005 to 2021)
Wellcome Trust Research Lecturer, then Reader, Royal Holloway, University of London (from 1995 to 2007)
Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 1985 to 2005)
Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1977 to 1984)
Undergraduate, Christ Church, Oxford (from 1974 to 1977)

Research Interests

History of medieval medicine and charity
History of the Mediterranean environment
History of All Souls College

Selected publications

(ed. with Sharon Kinoshita), A Companion to Mediterranean History (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).
(ed. with Elisabeth Hsu), The Body in Balance: Humoral Medicines in Practice (Oxford: Berghahn, 2013).
(ed. with S. J. D. Green), All Souls and the Wider World: Statesmen, Scholars, and Adventurers, c.1850-1950 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
Hospitals and Healing from Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008).
(ed. with S. J. D. Green), All Souls under the Ancien Régime: Politics, Learning and the Arts c. 1650-1850 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
(ed.), Freedom of Movement in the Middle Ages (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2007).
(ed. with John Henderson and Alessandro Pastore), The Impact of Hospitals 300–2000 (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007).
Co-author with Nicholas Purcell, The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000).
(ed.), Music as Medicine: The History of Music Therapy since Antiquity (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000).

Professor Roger Hood

Law

CBE, QC (Hon), PhD, DCL, LLD (Hon), FBA

12 June 1936 - 17 November 2020

Link to Curriculum Vitae

Background

Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 2003 to 2020)
Professor Emeritus of Criminology and Research Associate, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford (from 2005 to 2020)
Reader, then Professor of Criminology (1996), and Director, Centre for Criminological Research (now Centre for Criminology), University of Oxford and Fellow, All Souls College (from 1973 to 2003)
Adjunct (Visiting) Professor, City University, Hong Kong Law School (from 2008 to 2011)
Visiting Professor, University of Virginia School of Law (from 2004 to 2011)
Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Hong Kong (from 2003 to 2004)
Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge (from 1969 to 1973)
Assistant Director of Research, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge (from 1967 to 1973)
Lecturer, Social Administration, University of Durham (from 1963 to 1967)
Research Officer, London School of Economics (from 1961 to 1963)
Postgraduate, Downing College, Cambridge (from 1958 to 1961)
Undergraduate, London School of Economics (from 1954 to 1957)

Research Interests

Death penalty
Race and sentencing
Parole

Selected publications

‘Is Public Opinion a Justifiable Reason not to Abolish the Death Penalty? A Comparative Analysis of Surveys in Eight Countries’, Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law (in Honour of Franklin E. Zimring), vol. 23 (2), 2018 (forthcoming January 2019)
‘Towards the global elimination of the death penalty: a cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment’ (with Carolyn Hoyle), in Pat Carlen and Leandro Ayres França (eds), Alternative Criminologies, London: Routledge, 2017, 400-422.
‘Striving to Abolish the Death Penalty: Some Personal Reflections on Oxford’s Criminological Contribution to Human Rights’, in Mary Bosworth, Carolyn Hoyle, and Lucia Zedner (eds.), Changing Contours of Criminal Justice, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, 182-196.
(with Carolyn Hoyle), The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective (5th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).
‘Staying Optimistic’, in Lill Scherdin (ed.), Capital Punishment (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014).
(with Surya Deva [eds.]) Confronting Capital Punishment in Asia: Human Rights, Politics and Public Opinion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
The Death Penalty in Malaysia: Public opinion on the mandatory death penalty (London: The Death Penalty Project, 2013).
For a fuller list see link to Curriculum Vitae

Other professional memberships and roles

Consultant for the study on Death Penalty in Malaysia for the International Centre for Law and Legal Studies (I-CeLLS Malaysia) (from 2014 to 2016)
Consultant to the European Parliament on Enhancing EU Action on the Death Penalty in Asia (from 2012)
Consultant, The Death Penalty Project (from 2003)
Consultant, Great Britain-China Centre (from 2007 to 2009)
Member, Foreign Secretary’s Expert Group on the Death Penalty Panel (from 1998)
Fellow of the British Academy (from 1992)
Expert Consultant on Death Penalty United Nations (from 1988 to 2005)
Member, Parole System Review (from 1987 to 1988)
President, British Society of Criminology (from 1986 to 1989)
Member, Judicial Studies Board (from 1979 to 1985)
Member, Parole Board for England and Wales (from 1972 to 1973)

Research awards and grants

European Society of Criminology, ESC European Criminology Award 'for a lifetime contribution as a European Criminologist' (2012).
Beccaria Medal of the International Society for Social Defence and for a Humane Criminal Policy (2011).
Hon. Ll.D., Edinburgh Napier University (2011).
Hon. Ll.D., Birmingham University (2008).
Sellin-Glueck Award, American Society of Criminology 'for international contributions to criminology' (1986).

Professor Christopher Hood

Politics and International Relations

CBE, BA, BLitt, MA, DLitt, FBA

Emeritus Fellow from 2014 to 2025

1947-2025

Professor Hood specialized in the study of executive government, regulation, and public-sector reform.

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Background

Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 2014 to 2025)
ESRC Professorial Fellowship (from 2011 to 2015)
Gladstone Professor of Government and Public Administration, University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College (from 2001 to 2014)
Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy, London School of Economics (Head, 1995-8) (from 1989 to 2000)
Professor of Government and Public Administration, University of Sydney (from 1986 to 1989)
Lecturer in Politics, University of Glasgow (from 1972 to 1986)
Senior Teaching Fellow, National University of Singapore (from 1984 to 1985)
Postgraduate, University of Glasgow (from 1968 to 1971)
Undergraduate, University of York (from 1965 to 1968)

Research Interests

Study of executive government, regulation, and public-sector reform

Selected publications

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Other professional memberships and roles

Visiting Professor, Blavatnik School of Government (from 2015 to 2018)
Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2011 for services to social science (from 2011)
Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (United States) (from 2010)
Fellow, Sunningdale Institute (from 2007)
Fellow, Royal Society of Arts (from 2007)
Director, ESRC Research Programme, Public Services: Quality, Performance, Delivery (from 2004 to 2010)
Fellow of the Academy of Learned Societies of the Social Sciences (from 2002)
Elected Academician, Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences (from 2001)
Elected Fellow of the British Academy
(from 1996)

Research awards and grants

ESRC Professorial Fellowship (from 2010 to 2015).
Leverhulme Trust project award (from 2010 to 2013).
William E. Mosher and the Frederick C. Mosher Award for his article 'Can We? Administrative Limits Revisited' by The American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) (2011).
Awarded Public Management Research Association's H. George Frederickson Award for Career Contributions to Public Management Research (2007).
ESRC grant (2004).

Professor Birke Häcker

MA, DPhil

Quondam Fellow since 2016

I work mainly on English and German private law with a strong comparative and historical focus. This includes especially the law of contract, tort law, the law of trusts, property law, and the law of succession, and it extends to adjoining areas of commercial and company law. I also have an interest in aspects of tax law and in the principles governing the conflict of laws.

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Background

Schlegel Chair in Civil Law, Common Law and Comparative Law, and Director of the Institute of International and Comparative Private Law, University of Bonn
Professor of Comparative Law, University of Oxford (2016-2022)
Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Munich
Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 2011)
Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2008 to 2011)
Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 2001 to 2008)

Research Interests

General private and business law
Comparative law
Legal history

Selected publications

'Mistaken Gifts after Pitt v Holt' (2014) 67 Current Legal Problems 333-372.
'A Case Note on All Souls College v Cod[d]rington (1720)' (2012) 76 Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law 1051-1077.
Consequences of Impaired Consent Transfers: A Structural Comparison of English and German Law (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009; Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2013).
'Proprietary Restitution after Impaired Consent Transfers: A Generalised Power Model' (2009) 68 Cambridge Law Journal 324-360.
Full list of publications

Professor Simon Green

MA, DPhil, FRHistS, FSA

Emeritus Fellow since 2021

Background

Professor of Modern History, University of Leeds (from 2011)
Birkbeck Lecturer in Ecclesiastical History, University of Cambridge (from 2013 to 2014)
Reader in Modern British History, University of Leeds (from 2004 to 2011)
Extraordinary Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1997 to 2021)
Visiting Professor of History and the Social Sciences, the University of Chicago (from 1991 to 1992)
Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 1990 to 1997)
Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1982 to 1989)
Research Student, Nuffield College, Oxford (from 1981 to 1982)
Scholar in Modern History, Balliol College, Oxford (from 1978 to 1981)

Research Interests

Religion and the secularisation question in Britain since c. 1850
The history of All Souls College, Oxford, since 1660
Modern political thought

Selected publications

(ed. with Peregrine Horden), All Souls and the Wider World: Statesmen, Scholars and Adventurers, c. 1850-1950 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
The Passing of Protestant England: Secularisation and Social Change, c. 1920-1960 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010; paperback and e-book editions, 2012).
(ed. with Robert Crowcroft and Richard Whiting), The Philosophy, Politics and Religion of British Democracy: Maurice Cowling and Conservatism (London: I.B. Tauris, 2010).
(ed.) All Souls under the Ancien Regime: Politics, Learning and the Arts, c. 1600-1850 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
(ed. with Richard Whiting) The Boundaries of the State in Modern Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996; paperback edition, 2002).
Religion in the Age of Decline: Organisation and Experience in Industrial Yorkshire, c. 1870-1920 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996; paperback edition, 2002).
Link to publications

Other professional memberships and roles

Co-editor (with G.C.F. Forster) of Northern History (from 1997)
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Teaching

The social history of religion
Intellectual history
The history of the universities

Research awards and grants

British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow (from 2011 to 2012).

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