Nicola Lacey

Visiting Scholar
Professor
Criminal Law & Legal Theory
London School of Economics

Contact Information
Phone: (617) 495-4303 x218
E-Mail: nlacey@fas.harvard.edu




Biographical Statement

Lacey is a professor of criminal law and legal theory at the London School of Economics, adjunct professor of social and political theory at the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, and a fellow of the British Academy. She has written on criminal law, criminal justice, and legal, political, and social theory; most recently, she published a biography of the legal philosopher H.L.A. Hart (A Life of HLA Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream, 2004). She currently holds a Leverhulme Major Fellowship to conduct a research project on the development of ideas of responsibility for crime, and their institutional conditions of existence, since the eighteenth century.