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Professor Nicola Lacey is a leading British feminist legal theory and comparative criminal law scholar. Lacey is School Professor of Law, Gender, and Social Policy at the London School of Economics (LSE), affiliated to the Department of Law, Department of Social Policy, and Gender Institute. This broad affiliation reflects her commitment to theorizing law as a social phenomenon (2006), drawing on social, cultural, political, and economic contexts to understand the development of legal orders. She is a Fellow of the British Academy (2001); an Honorary Fellow of New College (2007) and University College (2010), Oxford; and an Honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple (2011). She held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship 2006–2009 and was awarded the Hans Sigrist Prize (2011), for work on the rule of law in modern societies, and the Swiney Prize (2004) for her biography of Herbert Hart, A Life of H.L.A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream (2004a). Lacey was awarded a CBE in...

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  1. Teaching Fellow in Political Theory, UCL School of Public Policy, Department of Political Science, 3.07, 29 - 31 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9QU, UK

    Helen Brown Coverdale

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  1. Center for International & Comparative Law, University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Mortimer Sellers

  2. Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, University of Salzburg, Austria, Salzburg, Austria

    Stephan Kirste

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  1. Philosophy Department, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA

    Sally Scholz Ph.D

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Coverdale, H.B. (2018). Lacey, Nicola. In: Sellers, M., Kirste, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6730-0_118-3

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