Nicola Lacey

Lacey was born on 3 February 1958 to Gillian Wroth and John McAndrew.[2] She studied law at University College London, graduating with a first class Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree in 1979.[3] She then undertook postgraduate studies at University College, Oxford, completing a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) degree in 1981.[2][3]

From 1981 to 1984, Lacey was a lecturer in the Faculty of Laws of University College London.[3] In 1984, she joined the University of Oxford where she had been appointed a university lecturer and elected a Fellow of New College, Oxford.[1][2] Then, from 1995 to 1997, she was a Professor of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London.[2] In 1998, she joined the London School of Economics (LSE) as Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory.[4] During her time at LSE, she held a number of visiting appointments at other universities: she was a fellow of the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study from 1999 to 2000,[2] a visiting professor at the New York University School of Law in 2001 and 2003,[1] an adjunct professor to the Social and Political Theory Program of the Research School of Social Science, Australian National University from 2002 to 2005/2006,[1][3] a visiting professor to the Center for Ethics, Politics and Economics at Yale University in 2004,[2] and a visiting fellow to the Center for European Studies at Harvard University in 2007.[3]

In 2010, Lacey moved to the University of Oxford where she had been elected a senior research fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.[1] On 1 October 2010, she was awarded a Title of Distinction by the university as Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory.[5] She was distinguished visiting professor to the University of Minnesota Law School in April 2012, and a visiting professor at Harvard Law School in 2013.[3] Having left Oxford in 2013, she was appointed a Quondam Fellow of All Souls:[1] this is a type of fellowship that allows former fellows to maintain an official link with the college.[6] In September 2013, Lacey returned to the London School of Economics where she had been appointed Professor of Law, Gender and Social Policy.[4][7] She was a Distinguished Global Fellow with the Hauser Global Law School Program of New York University School of Law for the 2014 Spring Semester.[3][8]

From 2010 to 2013, Lacey was the chair of the Law Section of the British Academy.[3] From 2014 to 2016, she was a member of the council of Liberty, a British advocacy group campaigning for civil liberties and human rights.[9] Since September 2015, she has been a member of the board of the British Museum.[7]

In 1991, Lacey married David Soskice.[2]

In 2001, Lacey was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[10] In the 2017 New Year Honours, she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) "For services to Law, Justice and Gender Politics".[11]

In 2004, Lacey was awarded the Swiney Prize by the Royal Society of Arts for her book A Life of H.L.A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream.[7] The book was also shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography and for the British Academy Book Prize.[4][7] She was made an honorary fellow of New College, Oxford in 2007 and of University College, Oxford (her alma mater) in 2010.[2] In 2011, she was awarded the Hans Sigrist Prize by the University of Bern.[4][12] In 2011, she was appointed an honorary bencher of Inner Temple, one of the Inns of Court of England and Wales.[2] In 2018 she received a Doctor of Laws from the University of Edinburgh.[13]

• Lacey, Nicola (1988). State Punishment: political principles and community values. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415001717.
• Lacey, Nicola; Wells, Celia; Meure, Dirk (1990). Reconstructing criminal law: critical perspectives on crime and criminal process (1st ed.). London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. ISBN 978-0297820277.
• Frazer, Elizabeth; Lacey, Nicola (1993). The Politics of Community: A Feminist Critique of the Liberal-Communitarian Debate. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0802072207.
• Lacey, Nicola, ed. (1994). A Reader on Criminal Justice. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198763628.
• Lacey, Nicola (1998). Unspeakable Subjects: Feminist Essays in Legal and Social Theory. Oxford: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1901362336.
• Lacey, Nicola (2004). A Life of H. L. A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199274970.
• Lacey, Nicola; Wells, Celia; Quick, Oliver (2006). Reconstructing Criminal Law: Text and Materials (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521606042.
• Lacey, Nicola (2008). The Prisoners' Dilemma: Political Economy and Punishment in Contemporary Democracies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521899475.
• Lacey, Nicola (2008). Women, Crime, and Character From Moll Flanders to Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199544363.