Faculty of Law University of Toronto
Critical Analysis of Law Workshop Series
presents
Lindsay Farmer
University of Glasgow, School of Law
Disgust, Respect and the Criminalisation of Offense
Friday, October 15, 2010
12:30 – 2:00
Solarium, Falconer Hall
84 Queen’s Park
Lindsay Farmer joined the School of Law in 1999. He studied law at the University of Edinburgh before doing an M.Phil. in Criminology at the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. at the European University Institute in Florence. He previously held teaching posts at the University of Strathclyde, and at Birkbeck College, University of London, where he helped establish a new LLB course. Professor Farmer spent time as a visiting fellow at the Center for Law and Society in the University of California at Berkeley. His publications include Criminal Law, Tradition and Legal Order. Crime and the Genius of Scots Law 1747 to the Present (Cambridge 1997); (with A. Duff, S. Marshall & V. Tadros) The Trial on Trial. Vol.III Towards a Normative Theory of the Criminal Trial (Hart Publishing 2007); and ( ed. with M.D. Dubber), Modern Histories of Crime and Punishment (Stanford UP, 2007). He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal New Criminal Law Review: (http://ucpressjournals.com/journal.asp?j=nclr ) and is on the editorial boards of Criminal Law and Philosophy, Law and Humanities, and Law, Culture and the Humanities. Professor Farmer’s broad areas of research interest are criminal law, legal history and legal theory. He is currently working on AHRC funded interdisciplinary project on Criminalization (2008-2012) with colleagues at the Universities of Stirling and Warwick (http://www.philosophy.stir.ac.uk/criminalization/crim-homepage.php ). The first collection of papers from the project, entitled Boundaries of the Criminal Law, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2010. Further volumes will follow in 2011 and 2012.
A light lunch will be provided.
For more workshop information, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca.
