The MUSSI Crime and Security Research Group and Department of Law, Maynooth University is delighted to be hosting Professor David Nelken, Professor of Comparative and Transnational Law in the Dickson Poon Law School, King's College London on Thursday 7th March. Prof. Nelken will be speaking in SE014, (new) Education Building at 6pm on 'Getting away with murder? Understanding leniency in Italian juvenile justice'.Prof. Nelken has published widely in the areas of comparative sociology of law, criminology and legal and social theory. His awards include: American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholar Award (1985), Sellin-Glueck International Award of the American Criminological Society (2009) and Law and Society (USA) International Scholar Award (2013). He was recently appointed to the REF sub-panel for law in the UK.
David Nelken PHD, LLD (Cambridge), is Professor of Comparative and Transnational Law in the Dickson Poon Law school and was Vice- Dean for Research 2013-2016. He taught previously at Cambridge, Edinburgh and University College, London before moving to Italy in 1989 as Distinguished Professor of Legal Institutions and Social Change at the University of Macerata. From 1995 to 2013 he was Distinguished Research Professor of Law at Cardiff University, and from 2010-2014 Visiting Professor of Criminology at Oxford University.
His work, covering both theoretical enquiry and empirical investigation, lies in the areas of comparative sociology of law, criminology, and legal and social theory.
Widely published, awards received include:
American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholar Award (1985)
Sellin-Glueck International award of the American Criminological Society (2009)
Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences (2009)
Podgorecki Distinguished Senior Scholar award from the International Sociological Association (2011)
Law & Society (USA) International Scholar Award (2013)
Member of REF sub-panel for Law.