Dr Hannah Quirk
Reader in Criminal Law
Research interests
- Law
Biography
Hannah Quirk is Reader in Criminal Law. She read Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge, followed by a M.Phil in Criminology. Her PhD is in Legal Studies from the University of Wolverhampton. She was Senior Researcher at the Legal Services Research Centre (the research unit of the Legal Services Commission). Her research interests develop her previous work as a Case Review Manager at the Criminal Cases Review Commission, investigating claims of wrongful conviction and sentence. In 2005, she spent six months on a research sabbatical at the Innocence Project New Orleans, before joining the Law School at the University of Manchester. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Melbourne, Queen's University Belfast (both 2009) and Fordham University Law School (2012). She has supervised 7 successful PhD students and is willing to consider applications in her research areas. Dr Quirk is on the editorial boards of The Criminal Law Review and Legal Studies. She appears regularly in the media discussing aspects of criminal justice and is hosting a series of talks with the attorneys from the Netflix documentaries Making a Murderer and The Staircase. She is a trustee of Transform Justice and the Sentencing Academy.
Research interests
My research examines the changing culture of the criminal justice system and the increased difficulties that defendants face following the curtailment of the right of silence and the system for getting disclosure of unused material. This feeds into my work on miscarriages of justice (why these cases happen and how the system does and should put them right). I am also interested in sentencing and the criminal law, in particular, homicide offences and the partial defence of loss of control.
Teaching
Criminal Law
News
Dr Hannah Quirk appointed Inner Temple Academic Fellow
Congratulations to Dr Hannah Quirk who has been appointed Academic Fellow of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple.
Events
The Future of Legal Practice: 25 years of the Criminal Cases Review Commission: perspectives on correcting miscarriages of justice
The way we practise law is changing. Business needs are evolving rapidly. In a globalised and strongly competitive market, clients require lawyers with a deep...
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The Future of Legal Practice: Criminal justice after COVID-19
The way we practise law is changing. Business needs are evolving rapidly. In a globalised and strongly competitive market, clients require lawyers with a deep...
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Spotlight
Spotlight on COVID: Criminal justice and the future of the jury
Dr Hannah Quirk discusses the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the criminal justice system.
News
Dr Hannah Quirk appointed Inner Temple Academic Fellow
Congratulations to Dr Hannah Quirk who has been appointed Academic Fellow of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple.
Events
The Future of Legal Practice: 25 years of the Criminal Cases Review Commission: perspectives on correcting miscarriages of justice
The way we practise law is changing. Business needs are evolving rapidly. In a globalised and strongly competitive market, clients require lawyers with a deep...
Please note: this event has passed.
The Future of Legal Practice: Criminal justice after COVID-19
The way we practise law is changing. Business needs are evolving rapidly. In a globalised and strongly competitive market, clients require lawyers with a deep...
Please note: this event has passed.
Spotlight
Spotlight on COVID: Criminal justice and the future of the jury
Dr Hannah Quirk discusses the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the criminal justice system.