Members' Projects

Below is a list of larger-scale projects that Members of the CCCJ are presently involved in.

Criminal Law Reform Now Network

CCCJ member Dr. Jonathan Rogers is a co-director of the Criminal Law Reform Now Network. This network was set up in June 2017 to co-ordinate interest academics and practitioners in law reform in criminal justice, including substantive law, evidence, procedure and sentencing. Its aim is to research areas of the law which are thought to be unsatisfactory but which are not already actively considered by the Law Commission or by government, and in which reform (including but not restricted to legislative reform) might nonetheless be possible. The Network benefits from finding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and more information can be found on the CLRNN website, http://www.clrnn.co.uk/.

Core Concepts in Criminal Law and Procedure

CCCJ Members Professor Antje du Bois-Pedain and Professor Findlay Stark are involved in a project on the foundational principles and concepts of Anglo-German Criminal Law and Justice. The project participants come from Germanic and Anglo-American jurisdictions, and have been carefully selected to reflect a diversity of backgrounds with either a more theoretical/normative or a more empirical focus. Two edited volumes have been published by Cambridge University Press, and feature chapters by du Bois-Pedain and (with Stefanie Bock (Marburg)) Stark. A further CUP volume is planned, and further volumes with Hart publishing are planned (some of which will be edited by Professor Stark).

Assize Seminars: Cutting Edge Criminal Law

The Assize Seminars were originally organised by Dr. Mark Dsouza (University College London), Professor Matthew Dyson (University of Oxford), Paul Jarvis (6KBW College Hill and the CBA) and Professor Findlay Stark (University of Cambridge and CCCJ) to provide a space for cutting edge academic work to play a practical role in understanding and developing the law. They are a chance to challenge, debate and refine criminal justice, providing a bridge from academic to criminal legal practice. Just like the Assize of old, the seminars are peripatetic, in this case rotating over between Oxford, University College London and Cambridge, all with the support of the Criminal Bar Association. Dr Rachel Clement Tolley (University of Cambridge and CCCJ) has replaced Findlay Stark as the Cambridge lead.