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Dr Hannah Quirk.
Dr Hannah Quirk.

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.

    Dr Hannah Quirk at the Inner Temple

    Events

    26May25 years of the Criminal Cases Review Commission: perspectives on correcting miscarriages of justice.

    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.

    17MarCopy of Career progression in modern legal practice A stepped approach (1)

    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.

    spotlight-covid-1920

      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.

      Dr Hannah Quirk at the Inner Temple

      Events

      26May25 years of the Criminal Cases Review Commission: perspectives on correcting miscarriages of justice.

      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.

      17MarCopy of Career progression in modern legal practice A stepped approach (1)

      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.

      spotlight-covid-1920