Professor Lindsay Farmer
- Professor of Law (School of Law)
telephone:
01413304181
email:
Lindsay.Farmer@glasgow.ac.uk
R429, Level 4, 7 The Square, Glasgow G12 8QQ
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6622-2808Biography
Lindsay Farmer joined the School of Law in 1999. He studied law at the University of Edinburgh before doing an M.Phil. in Criminology at the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. at the European University Institute in Florence. He has previously held teaching posts at the University of Strathclyde, and at Birkbeck College, University of London, where he helped establish a new LLB course. He has spent time as a visiting professor at the Center for Law and Society in the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Toronto, Columbia University, New York and the University of Sydney.
His books include Making the Modern Criminal Law. Criminalization and Civil Order (Oxford 2016); Criminal Law, Tradition and Legal Order. Crime and the Genius of Scots Law 1747 to the Present (Cambridge 1997); (with A. Duff, S. Marshall & V. Tadros) The Trial on Trial. Vol.III Towards a Normative Theory of the Criminal Trial (Hart Publishing 2007); and (with S Veitch & E Christodoulidis), Jurisprudence. Themes and Concepts (2nd ed) (Routledge, 2012).
He has recently been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (2019-2022) to work on a project entitled "Rethinking the Relation between Criminal Law and Markets". This will explore aspects of the relationship between criminal law and markets over the modern period to ask when, if at all, it is appropriate to use the criminal law to regulate markets and what sort of financial or economic conduct can justifiably be criminalised.
Lindsay was Editor-in-Chief of the journal New Criminal Law Review between 2008 and 2012. He is on the editorial boards of Social & Legal Studies, Criminal Law and Philosophy, Law and Humanities, and Law, Culture and the Humanities. In 2019 he was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy. In 2021 Professor Farmer was appointed as Vice-President (Publications and Conferences) to the British Academy, taking up the role in summer 2022.
Research interests
Criminal law and legal theory, particularly critical criminal law. History of criminal law (especially post-1800). Development of theories of responsibility (post-1800). Development of the criminal trial and its relation to substantive law. Theories of the criminal trial. Law and social theory.
Lindsay is willing to supervise any doctoral students whose proposed work falls within his areas of research interest.
Publications
2024
Farmer, L. (2024) Banking in heaven: credit and trust in the trial of the directors of the City of Glasgow Bank (1879). Edinburgh Law Review, 28(3), pp. 383-406. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2024.0919)
2023
Farmer, L. (2023) Book Review: The King’s Peace. Law and Order in the British Empire by Lisa Ford. Social and Legal Studies, (doi: 10.1177/09646639231202613)[Book Review] (Early Online Publication)
Ó Floinn, M. , Farmer, L. , Hörnle, J. and Ormerod, D. (Eds.) (2023) Transformations in Criminal Jurisdiction: Extraterritoriality and Enforcement. Hart Publishing: Oxford. ISBN 9781509954223
Ó Floinn, M. , Farmer, L. , Hörnle, J. and Ormerod, D. (2023) Introduction. In: Ó Floinn, M., Farmer, L., Hörnle, J. and Ormerod, D. (eds.) Transformations in Criminal Jurisdiction: Extraterritoriality and Enforcement. Hart Publishing: Oxford, pp. 1-14. ISBN 9781509954223
Kennedy, C. and Farmer, L. (Eds.) (2023) Leading Works in Criminal Law. Series: Analysing leading works in law. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781032046259
Farmer, L. (2023) George Fletcher, rethinking criminal law (1978). In: Kennedy, C. and Farmer, L. (eds.) Leading Works in Criminal Law. Series: Analysing leading works in law. Routledge: London, pp. 135-153. ISBN 9781032046259 (doi: 10.4324/9781003193982-7)
Kennedy, C. and Farmer, L. (2023) Introducing leading works in criminal law. In: Kennedy, C. and Farmer, L. (eds.) Leading Works in Criminal Law. Series: Analysing leading works in law. Routledge: London, pp. 1-13. ISBN 9781032046259 (doi: 10.4324/9781003193982-1)
Kennedy, C. and Farmer, L. (2023) Leading works: concluding reflections. In: Kennedy, C. and Farmer, L. (eds.) Leading Works in Criminal Law. Series: Analysing leading works in law. Routledge: London, pp. 263-269. ISBN 9781032046259 (doi: 10.4324/9781003193982-13)
2022
Farmer, L. (2022) Taking market crime seriously. Legal Studies, 42(3), pp. 508-524. (doi: 10.1017/lst.2022.2)
Farmer, L. (2022) The ‘market’ in criminal law theory. Modern Law Review, 85(2), pp. 435-460. (doi: 10.1111/1468-2230.12687)
Farmer, L. (2022) Responding to the problem of crime: English criminal law and the limits of positivism, 1870–1940. In: Pifferi, M. (ed.) The Limits of Criminological Positivism: The Movement for Criminal Law Reform in the West, 1870-1940. Routledge, pp. 176-195. ISBN 9780367340599 (doi: 10.4324/9780429323713-9)
2021
Farmer, L. (2021) Responsibility, criminalisation and political economy. In: Solanke, I. (ed.) On Crime, Society and Responsibility. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198852681 (Accepted for Publication)
2020
Farmer, L. (2020) Crime and Punishment. Criminal Law and Philosophy, 14(2), pp. 289-298. (doi: 10.1007/s11572-019-09523-7)
Farmer, L. (2020) Civil order, markets, and the intelligibility of the criminal law. University of Toronto Law Journal, 70(S1), pp. 123-140. (doi: 10.3138/utlj.2019-0063)
2019
Farmer, L. and Kennedy, C. (2019) Wrongs. In: Goodrich, P. (ed.) A Cultural History of Law: Volume 3: A Cultural History of Law in the Early Modern Age. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781474212854
Farmer, L. (2019) Making the modern criminal law: a response. Jurisprudence, 10(1), pp. 110-113. (doi: 10.1080/20403313.2019.1580443)
Farmer, L. (2019) 'Subverting the Settled Order of Things’: The crime of sedition in Scotland, 1793-1849. In: Davis, M. T., McLeod, E. and Pentland, G. (eds.) Political Trials in the Age of Revolutions: Britain and the North Atlantic, 1793—1848. Series: Palgrave histories of policing, punishment and justice. Palgrave: Cham. ISBN 9783319989587
Farmer, L. (2019) Trafficking, the Anti-Slavery Project and the making of the modern criminal law. In: Herlin-Karnell, E., Haverkamp, R. and Lernestedt, C. (eds.) What is Wrong with Human Trafficking? Critical Perspectives on the Law. Hart Publishing, pp. 13-36. ISBN 9781509921515 (doi: 10.5040/9781509921546.ch-002)
2018
Farmer, L. (2018) Thinking about (hidden) criminalisation. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 7(3), pp. 4-8. (doi: 10.5204/ijcjsd.v7i3.556)
Farmer, L. (2018) Civility, obligation and criminal law. In: Matthews, D. and Veitch, S. (eds.) Law, Obligation, Community. Series: Critical studies in jurisprudence. Routledge. ISBN 9781138300408
Farmer, L. (2018) Innocence, the burden of proof and fairness in the criminal trial: revisiting Woolmington v DPP (1935). In: Jackson, J. D. and Summers, S. J. (eds.) Obstacles to Fairness in Criminal Proceedings. Hart Publishing, pp. 57-74. ISBN 9781782258353 (doi: 10.5040/9781782258384.ch-004)
2017
Farmer, L. (2017) Book review: Crime: The Mystery of the Common Sense Concept. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 17(3), pp. 358-359. (doi: 10.1177/1748895817702034)[Book Review]
Farmer, L. (2017) Making the modern criminal law: a response. Critical Analysis of Law, 4(1), pp. 53-60.
Farmer, L. (2017) DPP v. Morgan. In: Handler, P., Mares, H. and Williams, I. (eds.) Landmark Cases in Criminal Law. Hart. ISBN 9781849466899
Farmer, L. (2017) Censure: moral and sociological. In: Amatrudo, A. (ed.) Social Censure and Critical Criminology: After Sumner. Palgrave Macmillan: London, pp. 47-65. ISBN 9781349952205
2016
Farmer, L. (2016) Making the Modern Criminal Law: Criminalization and Civil Order. Series: Criminalization. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199568642 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199568642.001.0001)
Farmer, L. (2016) Review of Barrie, D.G. & Broomhall, S. (2014) 'Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland'. Law, Crime and History, 6(1), pp. 103-105. [Book Review]
2015
Duff, R.A., Farmer, L. , Marshall, S.E., Renzo, M. and Tadros, V. (Eds.) (2015) Criminalization: The Political Morality of the Criminal Law. Series: Criminalization. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198726357
2014
Duff, R.A., Farmer, L. , Marshall, S.E., Renzo, M. and Tadros, V. (2014) Introduction. In: Duff, R.A., Farmer, L., Marshall, S.E., Renzo, M. and Tadros, V. (eds.) Criminalization: The political morality of the criminal law. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198726357
Farmer, L. (2014) Criminal law as an institution: rethinking theoretical approaches to criminalisation. In: Duff, R.A., Farmer, L., Marshall, S.E., Renzo, M. and Tadros, V. (eds.) Criminalization: The Political Morality of the Criminal Law. Series: Criminalization series. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198726357
Farmer, L. (2014) The modest ambition of Glanville Williams. In: Dubber, M.D. (ed.) Foundational Texts in Criminal Law. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780199673612 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199673612.003.0014)
Farmer, L. (2014) Codification. In: Dubber, M. D. and Hornle, T. (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780199673599
Farmer, L. (2014) Criminal law as a security project. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 14(4), pp. 399-404. (doi: 10.1177/1748895814541901)
Farmer, L. (2014) Penal modernism: an American tragedy. Critical Analysis of Law, 1(2), pp. 189-195.
2013
Duff, R.A., Farmer, L. , Marshall, S.E., Renzo, M. and Tadros, V. (Eds.) (2013) The Constitution of the Criminal Law. Series: Criminalization. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780199673872
Duff, R.A., Farmer, L. , Marshall, S.E., Renzo, M. and Tadros, V. (2013) Introduction. In: Duff, R.A., Farmer, L., Marshall, S.E., Renzo, M. and Tadros, V. (eds.) The Constitution of the Criminal Law. Series: Criminalization series. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780199673872
Farmer, L. (2013) Territorial jurisdiction and criminalization. University of Toronto Law Journal, 63(2), pp. 225-246. (doi: 10.3138/utlj.1117-3)
2012
Veitch, S., Christodoulidis, E. and Farmer, L. (2012) Jurisprudence: Themes and Concepts. Routledge-Cavendish: London, UK. ISBN 9780415679725
Farmer, L. (2012) W.E. Vaughan, 'Murder Trials in Ireland, 1836-1914'; Eleanor Gordon and Gwyneth Nair, 'Murder and Morality in Victorian Britain: the Story of Madeleine Smith': Reviews. Edinburgh Law Review, 16(1), pp. 143-145. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2012.0099)[Book Review]
Farmer, L. (2012) Criminal law. In: Mulhern, M. (ed.) Law: A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology. Series: Scottish Life and Society. Tuckwell Press / European Ethnological Research Centre: East Linton, UK, pp. 177-190.
Farmer, L. (2012) Of treatises and textbooks: the literature of criminal law in nineteenth century Britain. In: Fernandez, A. and Dubber, M. (eds.) Law Books in Action: Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise. Hart Publishing: Oxford, UK, pp. 145-164. ISBN 9781849461412
Farmer, L. (2012) Public trials and secret justice. In: Sarat, A., Douglas, L. and Umphrey, M.M. (eds.) Secrets of Law. Stanford University Press: Palo Alto, CA. ISBN 9780804782593
Farmer, L. (2012) Review of 'Paul D. Halliday: Habeas Corpus. From England to Empire'. Criminal Law and Philosophy, 6(2), pp. 273-275. (doi: 10.1007/s11572-012-9141-5)[Book Review]
2011
Duff, R.A., Farmer, L. , Marshall, S.E., Renzo, M. and Tadros, V. (Eds.) (2011) The Structures of Criminal Law. Series: Criminalization. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199644315
Duff, R.A., Farmer, L. , Marshall, S.E., Renzo, M. and Tadros, V. (2011) Introduction. In: Duff, R.A., Farmer, L., Marshall, S.E., Renzo, M. and Tadros, V. (eds.) The Structures of Criminal Law. Series: Criminalization. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199644315
Farmer, L. (2011) Disgust, respect, and the criminalization of offence. In: Cruft, R., Kramer, M.H. and Reiff, M.R. (eds.) Crime, Punishment, and Responsibility: The Jurisprudence of Antony Duff. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 273-291. ISBN 9780199592814 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199592814.003.0016)
2010
Duff, R.A., Farmer, L. , Marshall, S.E., Renzo, M. and Tadros, V. (Eds.) (2010) The Boundaries of the Criminal Law. Series: Criminalization series. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, p. 275. ISBN 9780199600557
Chalmers, J. , Leverick, F. and Farmer, L. (Eds.) (2010) Essays in Criminal Law in Honour of Sir Gerald Gordon. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748640706
Duff, R.A., Farmer, L. , Marshall, S. E., Renzo, M. and Tadros, V. (2010) Introduction: the boundaries of the criminal law. In: Duff, R.A., Farmer, L., Marshall, S.E., Renzo, M. and Tadros, V. (eds.) The Boundaries of the Criminal Law. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 1-26. ISBN 9780199600557
Farmer, L. (2010) Criminal wrongs in historical perspective. In: Duff, R.A., Farmer, L., Marshall, S.E., Renzo, M. and Tadros, V. (eds.) The Boundaries of the Criminal Law. Series: Criminalization series. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 214-237. ISBN 9780199600557 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199600557.001.0001)
Farmer, L. (2010) Time and space in criminal law. New Criminal Law Review, 13(2), pp. 333-356. (doi: 10.1525/nclr.2010.13.2.333)
Farmer, L. (2010) The Idea of Principle in Scots Criminal Law. In: Chalmers, J., Leverick, F. and Farmer, L. (eds.) Essays in Criminal Law in Honour of Sir Gerald Gordon. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Law (8). Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 86-102. ISBN 9780748640706
2009
Farmer, L. (2009) Mercy and Criminal Justice; a reply to Antony Duff. Criminal Justice Scotland, Nov, pp. 1-4.
Farmer, L. (2009) Trials. In: Sarat, A., Anderson, M. and Frank, C. (eds.) Law and the Humanities: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press, pp. 455-477. ISBN 9780521899055
Farmer, L. (2009) "Practical, but nonetheless principled"? MacAngus and Kane. Edinburgh Law Review, 13(3), pp. 502-507. (doi: 10.3366/E1364980909000651)
2007
Dubber, M.D. and Farmer, L. (Eds.) (2007) Modern Histories of Crime and Punishment. Series: Critical perspectives on crime and law. Stanford University Press: Stanford, CA. ISBN 9780804754125
Dubber, M.D. and Farmer, L. (2007) Introduction. In: Dubber, M.D. and Farmer, L. (eds.) Modern Histories of Crime and Punishment. Series: Critical perspectives on crime and law. Stanford University Press: Stanford, CA. ISBN 9780804754125
Duff, A., Farmer, L. , Marshall, S. and Tadros, V. (2007) The Trial on Trial. Volume 3: Towards a Normative Theory of the Criminal Trial. Series: The Trial on Trial, 3. Hart: Oxford. ISBN 9781841136981
Farmer, L. (2007) With the impressiveness and substantial value of truth: Notable Trials and Criminal Justice, 1750-1930. Law and Humanities, 1(1), pp. 57-78.
Farmer, L. (2007) Responsibility and the proof of guilt. In: Dubber, M.D. and Farmer, L. (eds.) Modern Histories of Crime and Punishment. Series: Critical perspectives on crime and law. Stanford University Press: Stanford, CA. ISBN 9780804754125
Veitch, S., Christodoulidis, E. and Farmer, L. (2007) Jurisprudence: Themes and Concepts. Routledge-Cavendish: London, UK. ISBN 9781859418154
2006
Duff, A., Farmer, L., Marshall, S. and Tadros, V. (Eds.) (2006) The Trial on Trial. Volume 2: Judgment and Calling to Account. Series: The Trial on Trial. Hart: Oxford. ISBN 9781841135427
Farmer, L. (2006) Tony Martin and the Nightbreakers:Criminal Law, Victims and the Power to Punish. In: Armstrong, S. and McAra, L. (eds.) Perspectives on Punishment. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 49-67. ISBN 0199278768
2004
Duff, A., Farmer, L., Marshall, S. and Tadros, V. (Eds.) (2004) The Trial on Trial. Volume 1: Truth and Due Process. Series: The Trial on Trial. Hart: Oxford. ISBN 9781841134420
2003
Farmer, L. (2003) Criminal Law Theory: Doctrines of the General Part; Edited by Stephen Shute and A.P. Simester.: Review. Legal Studies, 23(2), pp. 369-371.
Farmer, L. (2003) Enigma: Decoding the Draft Criminal Code. Scottish Law and Practice Quarterly, 7, pp. 68-80.
Farmer, L. (2003) Notable Trials and the Criminal Law in Scotland and England 1750-1900. In: Chassaigne, P. and Genet, P. (eds.) Droit et Societe en France et Grande Bretagne (XII-XX siecles). Publications de la Sorbonne: Paris, pp. 149-170. ISBN 2859444882
Farmer, L. (2003) Review: John Barrell, Imagining the King's Death. Rechtgeschichte, 2, pp. 193-194.
Farmer, L. (2003) Whose Trial? Comments on A Theory of the Trial. Law and Social Enquiry, 28(2), pp. 547-552.
Farmer, L. (2003) The end of legal unemployment. Or, why devolution is good for lawyers. Drouth, pp. 12-16.
2002
Farmer, L. (2002) Integrating a Victim Perspective within Criminal Justice. International Debates; Edited by Adam Crawford and Jo Goodey: Review. Social and Legal Studies, 11(1), pp. 142-143.
2001
Farmer, L. and Veitch, S. (Eds.) (2001) The State of Scots Law. Butterworths. ISBN 406944520
Farmer, L. (2001) Habermas on Law and Democracy Critical Changes;Edited by Michael Rosenfeld: Review. Social and Legal Studies, 9(4), pp. 583-586.
Farmer, L. (2001) Philosophy and the criminal law: principle and critique;Edited by Antony Duff.: Review. Modern Law Review, 63(2), pp. 315-316.
Farmer, L. (2001) Review: Lawyers, Legislators and Theorists. Developments in English Criminal Jurisprudence. Law and History Review, pp. 447-449.
Farmer, L. (2001) Under the Shadow over Parliament House. The Strange Case of Legal Nationalism in Scotland. In: Farmer, L. and Veitch, S. (eds.) The State of Scots Law. Law and Government after the Devolution Settlement. Butterworths. ISBN 406944520
2000
Farmer, L. (2000) Advocacy and the Making of the Adversarial Criminal Trial 1800-1865 David J.A. Cairns: Review. Law Quarterly Review, 116(Jan), pp. 169-171.
Farmer, L. (2000) The Criminous and the Incriminating: Narratives of Guilt and Innocence in Scottish Criminal Trials. Juridical Review(5), pp. 285-304.
Farmer, L. (2000) The principle of codification we recommend has never yet been understood: A Response. Law and History Review, 18(2), pp. 441-444.
Farmer, L. (2000) Reconstructing the English Codification Debate: The Criminal Law Commissioners 1833-45. Law and History Review, 18(2), pp. 397-425.
1999
Farmer, L. (1999) Debatable land: an essay on the relationship between English and Scottish criminal law. Edinburgh Law Review, 3(1), pp. 32-56. (doi: 10.3366/elr.1999.3.1.32)
1998
Farmer, L. (1998) The Law of the Land: Criminal Jurisdiction 1747-1908. In: Rush, P., McVeigh, S. and Young, A. (eds.) Criminal Legal Doctrine. Ashgate, pp. 63-83. ISBN 1855219697
Farmer, L. (1998) Scholars of the law: English jurisprudence from Blackstone to Hart; Richard A. Cosgrove:Review. Social and Legal Studies, 7(2), pp. 294-297.
1996
Farmer, L. (1996) The Obsession with Definition: The Nature of Crime and Critical Legal Theory. Social and Legal Studies, 5(1), pp. 57-73.
Farmer, L. (1996) Now judges speak out but should we listen? Independent,
Articles
Farmer, L. (2024) Banking in heaven: credit and trust in the trial of the directors of the City of Glasgow Bank (1879). Edinburgh Law Review, 28(3), pp. 383-406. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2024.0919)
Farmer, L. (2022) Taking market crime seriously. Legal Studies, 42(3), pp. 508-524. (doi: 10.1017/lst.2022.2)
Farmer, L. (2022) The ‘market’ in criminal law theory. Modern Law Review, 85(2), pp. 435-460. (doi: 10.1111/1468-2230.12687)
Farmer, L. (2020) Crime and Punishment. Criminal Law and Philosophy, 14(2), pp. 289-298. (doi: 10.1007/s11572-019-09523-7)
Farmer, L. (2020) Civil order, markets, and the intelligibility of the criminal law. University of Toronto Law Journal, 70(S1), pp. 123-140. (doi: 10.3138/utlj.2019-0063)
Farmer, L. (2019) Making the modern criminal law: a response. Jurisprudence, 10(1), pp. 110-113. (doi: 10.1080/20403313.2019.1580443)
Farmer, L. (2018) Thinking about (hidden) criminalisation. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 7(3), pp. 4-8. (doi: 10.5204/ijcjsd.v7i3.556)
Farmer, L. (2017) Making the modern criminal law: a response. Critical Analysis of Law, 4(1), pp. 53-60.
Farmer, L. (2014) Criminal law as a security project. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 14(4), pp. 399-404. (doi: 10.1177/1748895814541901)
Farmer, L. (2014) Penal modernism: an American tragedy. Critical Analysis of Law, 1(2), pp. 189-195.
Farmer, L. (2013) Territorial jurisdiction and criminalization. University of Toronto Law Journal, 63(2), pp. 225-246. (doi: 10.3138/utlj.1117-3)
Farmer, L. (2010) Time and space in criminal law. New Criminal Law Review, 13(2), pp. 333-356. (doi: 10.1525/nclr.2010.13.2.333)
Farmer, L. (2009) Mercy and Criminal Justice; a reply to Antony Duff. Criminal Justice Scotland, Nov, pp. 1-4.
Farmer, L. (2009) "Practical, but nonetheless principled"? MacAngus and Kane. Edinburgh Law Review, 13(3), pp. 502-507. (doi: 10.3366/E1364980909000651)
Farmer, L. (2007) With the impressiveness and substantial value of truth: Notable Trials and Criminal Justice, 1750-1930. Law and Humanities, 1(1), pp. 57-78.
Farmer, L. (2003) Criminal Law Theory: Doctrines of the General Part; Edited by Stephen Shute and A.P. Simester.: Review. Legal Studies, 23(2), pp. 369-371.
Farmer, L. (2003) Enigma: Decoding the Draft Criminal Code. Scottish Law and Practice Quarterly, 7, pp. 68-80.
Farmer, L. (2003) Review: John Barrell, Imagining the King's Death. Rechtgeschichte, 2, pp. 193-194.
Farmer, L. (2003) Whose Trial? Comments on A Theory of the Trial. Law and Social Enquiry, 28(2), pp. 547-552.
Farmer, L. (2003) The end of legal unemployment. Or, why devolution is good for lawyers. Drouth, pp. 12-16.
Farmer, L. (2002) Integrating a Victim Perspective within Criminal Justice. International Debates; Edited by Adam Crawford and Jo Goodey: Review. Social and Legal Studies, 11(1), pp. 142-143.
Farmer, L. (2001) Habermas on Law and Democracy Critical Changes;Edited by Michael Rosenfeld: Review. Social and Legal Studies, 9(4), pp. 583-586.
Farmer, L. (2001) Philosophy and the criminal law: principle and critique;Edited by Antony Duff.: Review. Modern Law Review, 63(2), pp. 315-316.
Farmer, L. (2001) Review: Lawyers, Legislators and Theorists. Developments in English Criminal Jurisprudence. Law and History Review, pp. 447-449.
Farmer, L. (2000) Advocacy and the Making of the Adversarial Criminal Trial 1800-1865 David J.A. Cairns: Review. Law Quarterly Review, 116(Jan), pp. 169-171.
Farmer, L. (2000) The Criminous and the Incriminating: Narratives of Guilt and Innocence in Scottish Criminal Trials. Juridical Review(5), pp. 285-304.
Farmer, L. (2000) The principle of codification we recommend has never yet been understood: A Response. Law and History Review, 18(2), pp. 441-444.
Farmer, L. (2000) Reconstructing the English Codification Debate: The Criminal Law Commissioners 1833-45. Law and History Review, 18(2), pp. 397-425.
Farmer, L. (1999) Debatable land: an essay on the relationship between English and Scottish criminal law. Edinburgh Law Review, 3(1), pp. 32-56. (doi: 10.3366/elr.1999.3.1.32)
Farmer, L. (1998) Scholars of the law: English jurisprudence from Blackstone to Hart; Richard A. Cosgrove:Review. Social and Legal Studies, 7(2), pp. 294-297.
Farmer, L. (1996) The Obsession with Definition: The Nature of Crime and Critical Legal Theory. Social and Legal Studies, 5(1), pp. 57-73.
Farmer, L. (1996) Now judges speak out but should we listen? Independent,
Books
Farmer, L. (2016) Making the Modern Criminal Law: Criminalization and Civil Order. Series: Criminalization. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199568642 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199568642.001.0001)
Veitch, S., Christodoulidis, E. and Farmer, L. (2012) Jurisprudence: Themes and Concepts. Routledge-Cavendish: London, UK. ISBN 9780415679725
Duff, A., Farmer, L. , Marshall, S. and Tadros, V. (2007) The Trial on Trial. Volume 3: Towards a Normative Theory of the Criminal Trial. Series: The Trial on Trial, 3. Hart: Oxford. ISBN 9781841136981
Veitch, S., Christodoulidis, E. and Farmer, L. (2007) Jurisprudence: Themes and Concepts. Routledge-Cavendish: London, UK. ISBN 9781859418154
Book Sections
Ó Floinn, M. , Farmer, L. , Hörnle, J. and Ormerod, D. (2023) Introduction. In: Ó Floinn, M., Farmer, L., Hörnle, J. and Ormerod, D. (eds.) Transformations in Criminal Jurisdiction: Extraterritoriality and Enforcement. Hart Publishing: Oxford, pp. 1-14. ISBN 9781509954223
Farmer, L. (2023) George Fletcher, rethinking criminal law (1978). In: Kennedy, C. and Farmer, L. (eds.) Leading Works in Criminal Law. Series: Analysing leading works in law. Routledge: London, pp. 135-153. ISBN 9781032046259 (doi: 10.4324/9781003193982-7)
Kennedy, C. and Farmer, L. (2023) Introducing leading works in criminal law. In: Kennedy, C. and Farmer, L. (eds.) Leading Works in Criminal Law. Series: Analysing leading works in law. Routledge: London, pp. 1-13. ISBN 9781032046259 (doi: 10.4324/9781003193982-1)
Kennedy, C. and Farmer, L. (2023) Leading works: concluding reflections. In: Kennedy, C. and Farmer, L. (eds.) Leading Works in Criminal Law. Series: Analysing leading works in law. Routledge: London, pp. 263-269. ISBN 9781032046259 (doi: 10.4324/9781003193982-13)
Farmer, L. (2022) Responding to the problem of crime: English criminal law and the limits of positivism, 1870–1940. In: Pifferi, M. (ed.) The Limits of Criminological Positivism: The Movement for Criminal Law Reform in the West, 1870-1940. Routledge, pp. 176-195. ISBN 9780367340599 (doi: 10.4324/9780429323713-9)
Farmer, L. (2021) Responsibility, criminalisation and political economy. In: Solanke, I. (ed.) On Crime, Society and Responsibility. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198852681 (Accepted for Publication)
Farmer, L. and Kennedy, C. (2019) Wrongs. In: Goodrich, P. (ed.) A Cultural History of Law: Volume 3: A Cultural History of Law in the Early Modern Age. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781474212854
Farmer, L. (2019) 'Subverting the Settled Order of Things’: The crime of sedition in Scotland, 1793-1849. In: Davis, M. T., McLeod, E. and Pentland, G. (eds.) Political Trials in the Age of Revolutions: Britain and the North Atlantic, 1793—1848. Series: Palgrave histories of policing, punishment and justice. Palgrave: Cham. ISBN 9783319989587
Farmer, L. (2019) Trafficking, the Anti-Slavery Project and the making of the modern criminal law. In: Herlin-Karnell, E., Haverkamp, R. and Lernestedt, C. (eds.) What is Wrong with Human Trafficking? Critical Perspectives on the Law. Hart Publishing, pp. 13-36. ISBN 9781509921515 (doi: 10.5040/9781509921546.ch-002)
Farmer, L. (2018) Civility, obligation and criminal law. In: Matthews, D. and Veitch, S. (eds.) Law, Obligation, Community. Series: Critical studies in jurisprudence. Routledge. ISBN 9781138300408
Farmer, L. (2018) Innocence, the burden of proof and fairness in the criminal trial: revisiting Woolmington v DPP (1935). In: Jackson, J. D. and Summers, S. J. (eds.) Obstacles to Fairness in Criminal Proceedings. Hart Publishing, pp. 57-74. ISBN 9781782258353 (doi: 10.5040/9781782258384.ch-004)
Farmer, L. (2017) DPP v. Morgan. In: Handler, P., Mares, H. and Williams, I. (eds.) Landmark Cases in Criminal Law. Hart. ISBN 9781849466899
Farmer, L. (2017) Censure: moral and sociological. In: Amatrudo, A. (ed.) Social Censure and Critical Criminology: After Sumner. Palgrave Macmillan: London, pp. 47-65. ISBN 9781349952205
Duff, R.A., Farmer, L. , Marshall, S.E., Renzo, M. and Tadros, V. (2014) Introduction. In: Duff, R.A., Farmer, L., Marshall, S.E., Renzo, M. and Tadros, V. (eds.) Criminalization: The political morality of the criminal law. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198726357
Farmer, L. (2014) Criminal law as an institution: rethinking theoretical approaches to criminalisation. In: Duff, R.A., Farmer, L., Marshall, S.E., Renzo, M. and Tadros, V. (eds.) Criminalization: The Political Morality of the Criminal Law. Series: Criminalization series. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198726357
Farmer, L. (2014) The modest ambition of Glanville Williams. In: Dubber, M.D. (ed.) Foundational Texts in Criminal Law. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780199673612 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199673612.003.0014)
Farmer, L. (2014) Codification. In: Dubber, M. D. and Hornle, T. (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780199673599
Duff, R.A., Farmer, L. , Marshall, S.E., Renzo, M. and Tadros, V. (2013) Introduction. In: Duff, R.A., Farmer, L., Marshall, S.E., Renzo, M. and Tadros, V. (eds.) The Constitution of the Criminal Law. Series: Criminalization series. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780199673872
Farmer, L. (2012) Criminal law. In: Mulhern, M. (ed.) Law: A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology. Series: Scottish Life and Society. Tuckwell Press / European Ethnological Research Centre: East Linton, UK, pp. 177-190.
Farmer, L. (2012) Of treatises and textbooks: the literature of criminal law in nineteenth century Britain. In: Fernandez, A. and Dubber, M. (eds.) Law Books in Action: Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise. Hart Publishing: Oxford, UK, pp. 145-164. ISBN 9781849461412
Farmer, L. (2012) Public trials and secret justice. In: Sarat, A., Douglas, L. and Umphrey, M.M. (eds.) Secrets of Law. Stanford University Press: Palo Alto, CA. ISBN 9780804782593
Duff, R.A., Farmer, L. , Marshall, S.E., Renzo, M. and Tadros, V. (2011) Introduction. In: Duff, R.A., Farmer, L., Marshall, S.E., Renzo, M. and Tadros, V. (eds.) The Structures of Criminal Law. Series: Criminalization. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199644315
Farmer, L. (2011) Disgust, respect, and the criminalization of offence. In: Cruft, R., Kramer, M.H. and Reiff, M.R. (eds.) Crime, Punishment, and Responsibility: The Jurisprudence of Antony Duff. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 273-291. ISBN 9780199592814 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199592814.003.0016)
Duff, R.A., Farmer, L. , Marshall, S. E., Renzo, M. and Tadros, V. (2010) Introduction: the boundaries of the criminal law. In: Duff, R.A., Farmer, L., Marshall, S.E., Renzo, M. and Tadros, V. (eds.) The Boundaries of the Criminal Law. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 1-26. ISBN 9780199600557
Farmer, L. (2010) Criminal wrongs in historical perspective. In: Duff, R.A., Farmer, L., Marshall, S.E., Renzo, M. and Tadros, V. (eds.) The Boundaries of the Criminal Law. Series: Criminalization series. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 214-237. ISBN 9780199600557 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199600557.001.0001)
Farmer, L. (2010) The Idea of Principle in Scots Criminal Law. In: Chalmers, J., Leverick, F. and Farmer, L. (eds.) Essays in Criminal Law in Honour of Sir Gerald Gordon. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Law (8). Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 86-102. ISBN 9780748640706
Farmer, L. (2009) Trials. In: Sarat, A., Anderson, M. and Frank, C. (eds.) Law and the Humanities: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press, pp. 455-477. ISBN 9780521899055
Dubber, M.D. and Farmer, L. (2007) Introduction. In: Dubber, M.D. and Farmer, L. (eds.) Modern Histories of Crime and Punishment. Series: Critical perspectives on crime and law. Stanford University Press: Stanford, CA. ISBN 9780804754125
Farmer, L. (2007) Responsibility and the proof of guilt. In: Dubber, M.D. and Farmer, L. (eds.) Modern Histories of Crime and Punishment. Series: Critical perspectives on crime and law. Stanford University Press: Stanford, CA. ISBN 9780804754125
Farmer, L. (2006) Tony Martin and the Nightbreakers:Criminal Law, Victims and the Power to Punish. In: Armstrong, S. and McAra, L. (eds.) Perspectives on Punishment. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 49-67. ISBN 0199278768
Farmer, L. (2003) Notable Trials and the Criminal Law in Scotland and England 1750-1900. In: Chassaigne, P. and Genet, P. (eds.) Droit et Societe en France et Grande Bretagne (XII-XX siecles). Publications de la Sorbonne: Paris, pp. 149-170. ISBN 2859444882
Farmer, L. (2001) Under the Shadow over Parliament House. The Strange Case of Legal Nationalism in Scotland. In: Farmer, L. and Veitch, S. (eds.) The State of Scots Law. Law and Government after the Devolution Settlement. Butterworths. ISBN 406944520
Farmer, L. (1998) The Law of the Land: Criminal Jurisdiction 1747-1908. In: Rush, P., McVeigh, S. and Young, A. (eds.) Criminal Legal Doctrine. Ashgate, pp. 63-83. ISBN 1855219697
Book Reviews
Farmer, L. (2023) Book Review: The King’s Peace. Law and Order in the British Empire by Lisa Ford. Social and Legal Studies, (doi: 10.1177/09646639231202613)[Book Review] (Early Online Publication)
Farmer, L. (2017) Book review: Crime: The Mystery of the Common Sense Concept. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 17(3), pp. 358-359. (doi: 10.1177/1748895817702034)[Book Review]
Farmer, L. (2016) Review of Barrie, D.G. & Broomhall, S. (2014) 'Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland'. Law, Crime and History, 6(1), pp. 103-105. [Book Review]
Farmer, L. (2012) W.E. Vaughan, 'Murder Trials in Ireland, 1836-1914'; Eleanor Gordon and Gwyneth Nair, 'Murder and Morality in Victorian Britain: the Story of Madeleine Smith': Reviews. Edinburgh Law Review, 16(1), pp. 143-145. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2012.0099)[Book Review]
Farmer, L. (2012) Review of 'Paul D. Halliday: Habeas Corpus. From England to Empire'. Criminal Law and Philosophy, 6(2), pp. 273-275. (doi: 10.1007/s11572-012-9141-5)[Book Review]
Edited Books
Ó Floinn, M. , Farmer, L. , Hörnle, J. and Ormerod, D. (Eds.) (2023) Transformations in Criminal Jurisdiction: Extraterritoriality and Enforcement. Hart Publishing: Oxford. ISBN 9781509954223
Kennedy, C. and Farmer, L. (Eds.) (2023) Leading Works in Criminal Law. Series: Analysing leading works in law. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781032046259
Duff, R.A., Farmer, L. , Marshall, S.E., Renzo, M. and Tadros, V. (Eds.) (2015) Criminalization: The Political Morality of the Criminal Law. Series: Criminalization. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198726357
Duff, R.A., Farmer, L. , Marshall, S.E., Renzo, M. and Tadros, V. (Eds.) (2013) The Constitution of the Criminal Law. Series: Criminalization. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780199673872
Duff, R.A., Farmer, L. , Marshall, S.E., Renzo, M. and Tadros, V. (Eds.) (2011) The Structures of Criminal Law. Series: Criminalization. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199644315
Duff, R.A., Farmer, L. , Marshall, S.E., Renzo, M. and Tadros, V. (Eds.) (2010) The Boundaries of the Criminal Law. Series: Criminalization series. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, p. 275. ISBN 9780199600557
Chalmers, J. , Leverick, F. and Farmer, L. (Eds.) (2010) Essays in Criminal Law in Honour of Sir Gerald Gordon. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748640706
Dubber, M.D. and Farmer, L. (Eds.) (2007) Modern Histories of Crime and Punishment. Series: Critical perspectives on crime and law. Stanford University Press: Stanford, CA. ISBN 9780804754125
Duff, A., Farmer, L., Marshall, S. and Tadros, V. (Eds.) (2006) The Trial on Trial. Volume 2: Judgment and Calling to Account. Series: The Trial on Trial. Hart: Oxford. ISBN 9781841135427
Duff, A., Farmer, L., Marshall, S. and Tadros, V. (Eds.) (2004) The Trial on Trial. Volume 1: Truth and Due Process. Series: The Trial on Trial. Hart: Oxford. ISBN 9781841134420
Farmer, L. and Veitch, S. (Eds.) (2001) The State of Scots Law. Butterworths. ISBN 406944520
Grants
Professor Farmer has been awarded the following grants:
2018
£141,554 awarded by the Leverhulme Trust to Prof L Farmer, Rethinking the Relationship between Markets and Criminal Law
2013
£231,800 awarded by the British Academy to Prof L Farmer, and Mrs CM Kelly (PI), Criminalisation of Children in Scotland 1910 – 1971.
2012
£6,943 was awarded to Prof Lindsay Farmer, and Dr F Leverick (PI), by The Clark Foundation for Legal Education for a Conference and Public Lecture in honour of Sir Gerald Gordon.
2011
£18,106 secured for a studentship in 2011 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) by Prof Lindsay Farmer.
2008
Prof Lindsay Farmer was part of a team (with the Universities of Stirling and Warwick) which was awarded £625,000 by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to look at developing a normative theory of criminalization. Two PhD studentships are associated with the grant. The project ran 2008-2012.
Supervision
Research Students Under Supervision
- Ferguson, Rachel - 'The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry and the criminalisation of adult-child relations from the 20th century'
- Nowell, Ellena - 'PhD Topic: Criminal statistics and the development of sexual offences'
- Burgess, Nicholas
Tracking the synergy between criminal law theory and UK drug laws from the 19th to the 21st centuries - Williamson, Rebecca
Female Sexuality on Trial: Sex, Illegitimacy and Narrative in Nineteenth-Century Scottish Court Records - XU, RENYI
Criminal Law and Artificial Intelligence ---- On The Criminal Attribution of Crimes Involving Artificial Intelligence
Teaching
Criminal law and legal theory.
History of criminal law (especially post-1800).
Development of theories of responsibility (post-1800).
Development of the criminal trial and its relation to substantive law.
Theories of the criminal trial. Law and social theory.
Additional information
New Books Network Podcast
Lindsay Farmer speaks to Jane Richards about his book 'Making the Modern Criminal Law' (Oxford University Press, 2016) for the New Books Network Podcast: https://newbooksnetwork.com/making-the-modern-criminal-law
