Professor Andrew Ashworth
CBE, KC (Hon), LLB, MA, PhD, DCL, DJur (Hon), LLD (Hon), FBA
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.
- Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 2013)
- Vinerian Professor of English Law, University of Oxford and Fellow, All Souls College (from 1997 to 2013)
- Edmund-Davies Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, King’s College London (from 1988 to 1997)
- Fellow and Tutor in Law, Worcester College, Oxford (from 1978 to 1988)
- Lecturer then Senior Lecturer in Law, Manchester University (from 1970 to 1978)
- Graduate student, New College, Oxford (from 1968 to 1970)
- Undergraduate, LSE, London (from 1965 to 1968)
- Criminal law and justice
- Sentencing
- Criminal procedure
- European human rights law
- Chairman, Select Committee of Experts on Sentencing, Council of Europe (from 1989 to 1992)
- Member, and Chairman (2007-), Sentencing Advisory Panel (from 1999)