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Andrew Ashworth
Vinerian Professor of English Law +
Andrew Ashworth is the Vinerian Professor of English Law. He obtained his LL.B. from the London School of Economics (1968), and then took the B.C.L. at Oxford (1970). He obtained a Ph.D. from Manchester University (1973). In 1993 he was awarded the degree of D.C.L. at Oxford and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. In 1997 he was appointed a Q.C. Honoris causa. In 1999 he was appointed a member of the Sentencing Advisory Panel, and in 2002 he became a member of the Criminal Committee of the Judicial Studies Board. He was awarded the degree of LL.D.honoris causa at De Montfort University in 1998, and the degree of Jur. D. honoris causa at Uppsala University in 2003.
His first teaching position was as Lecturer (1970-76) then Senior Lecturer (1976-78) at Manchester University. From 1978 to 1988 he was Fellow and Tutor in Law at Worcester College, Oxford, and he served as Acting Director of the University's Centre for Criminological Research from 1982 to 1983. In 1988 he was appointed Edmund-Davies Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at King's College London, and held that post until moving to All Souls College to take up the Vinerian chair in 1997.
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Subject groups : Criminal Justice and Penology : Criminal Law : Introduction to Law : Philosophy of Law : Socio-Legal Studies : Criminology
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A Ashworth, Human Rights, Serious Crime and Criminal Procedure (Sweet & Maxwell 2002)
A Ashworth, A Change iof Normative Position: Determining the Contours of Culpability in Criminal Law (New Criminal Law Review 2008)
DOI: 10.1525/nclr.2008.II.2.232
Abstract: Critical re-examination of the doctrine of 'change of normative position' in criminal law theory, comparing it with forms of constructive liability.
A Ashworth, 'Four Threats to the Presumption of Innocence' (2006) 123 South African Law Journal 62-96
Abstract: An exploration of the justifications for the presumption of innocence, and the various arguments for curtailing it by reversing the burden of proof in certain types of case.
A Ashworth, 'Social Control and 'Anti-Social Behaviour': the subversion of human rights?' (2004) 120 Law Quarterly Review 263-291
A Ashworth, 'Responsibilities, Rights and Restorative Justice' (2002) 42 British Journal of Criminology 578-595
DOI: 10.1093/bjc/42.3.578
ISBN: 1464-3529
A Ashworth, Sentencing and Criminal Justice (Cambridge University Press 2005)
Other notes:This edition was revised extensively, to analyze and criticize the major changes introduced by the Criminal Justice Act 2003, as well as other legislative changes and case-law.
ISBN: 978-0-521-67405-8
Correspondence address: All Souls College, Oxford OX1 4AL
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