05/03/2021
Decolonise the Cambridge Law Tripos Curriculum:
We are happy to announce that Professor Nicola Padfield and Dr Sandesh Sivakumaran are the panelists for next Tuesday's (9th March) Decolonise Law session.
Professor Padfield is Professor of Criminal and Penal Justice at the Law Faculty, University of Cambridge, and has been a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College since 1991. Professor Padfield is also the Faculty's Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (EDI). Her books include ‘The Criminal Justice Process: Text and Materials’ (5th edition, 2016); ‘Criminal Law’ (10th edition, 2016), and ‘Beyond the Tariff: Human rights and the release of life sentence prisoners’ (2002). She has edited and contributed to a number of more recent collections of essays on parole and early release (which has involved research in a number of European countries).
Dr Sivakumaran is University Reader in International Law, Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and Fellow of St Edmund's College. He was previously Professor of Public International Law at the University of Nottingham. Dr Sandesh has publichsed on a variety of topics in public international law and has acted as an expert for a range of states, international organisations and non-governmental organisations.
We look forward to seeing you there and hearing your views on how the curriculum at Cambridge can be enriched!
