Professor Andrew Ashworth

Professor Andrew Ashworth

CBE, KC (Hon), LLB, MA, PhD, DCL, DJur (Hon), LLD (Hon), FBA
Law
Emeritus Fellow since 2013

My current research interests centre on three areas – sentencing principles; the idea of preventive justice, and the need for safeguards where ‘the protection of the public’ is invoked in support of coercive measures; and the justifications for convicting people for omissions, i.e. for failing to act in a given situation, and particularly exploring the duties that citizens do or ought to have.

Links
Faculty of Law Profile
Research Areas
Criminal Law and Justice
Criminal Procedure
Sentencing
European Human Rights Law

Selected Publications

For a list of publications please see my departmental website
Background
  • Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 2013) 
  • Vinerian Professor of English Law, University of Oxford and Fellow, All Souls College (1997-2013)
  •  Edmund-Davies Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, King's College London (1988-1997) 
  • Fellow and Tutor in Law, Worcester College, Oxford (1978-1988) 
  • Lecturer then Senior Lecturer in Law, Manchester University (1970-1978) 
  • Graduate student, New College, Oxford (1968-1970) 
  • Undergraduate, LSE, London (1965-1968)