Hannah Quirk

Hannah Quirk is an English legal academic and Reader of Criminal Law in the Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College, London.

Quirk read Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge followed by a M.Phil. in Criminology. She completed a Doctor of Philosophy in Legal Studies at the University of Wolverhampton. She was later a senior researcher at the Legal Services Research Centre and a case review manager at the Criminal Cases Review Commission, where she investigated claims of wrongful conviction and sentence. In 2005, she spent six months on a research sabbatical at the Innocence Project New Orleans.

From 2005 to 2018 Quirk was a senior lecturer in criminal law and justice at the University of Manchester. She was appointed Reader of Criminal Law in the Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College, London in 2018. Key points in her academic career have included the following:

• Board member of JUSTICE from 2016 to 2018.

• Trustee of the Sentencing Academy from 2018 to 2023 and of Transform Justice.

• Academic Fellow at the Inner Temple from 2019 to 2022.

• Visiting scholar at the University of Melbourne (2009), Queen’s University Belfast (2009), Fordham University Law School (2012) and Georgetown Law (2025).

• Assistant Editor of the Judicial College's Crown Court Compendium (2021-).

• General Editor of the The Criminal Law Review from 2023.
• Member of the Editor Board of the Wrongful Conviction Law Review.

• Associate Member of Drystone Chambers.

• Quirk, H. (2016). The Rise and Fall of the Right of Silence.

• Stanton, C. and Quirk, H. (2016). Criminalising Contagion: Legal and Ethical Challenges of Disease Transmission and the Criminal Law.

• Quirk, H. Seddon, T. and Smith, G. (Eds) (2010). Regulation and Criminal Justice: Innovations in Policy and Research

• Institutional Models for Exoneration – The Criminal Cases Review Commission (2025).

• Investigating [...] Allegations: Artificial Intelligence and the ‘Digital Strip-Search’ (2023).

• Compensation for wrongful convictions in England and Wales (2023).

• Removing the Time Limit on Prosecutions for Underage [...] Intercourse in the [...] Offences Act 1956 – Some Comments and Concerns (2018).

• The Time Limit on Prosecutions for Underage [...] Intercourse in the [...] Offences Act 1956: A Continuing Problem: Comment From Hannah Quirk (2018).

• The Case for Restoring the Right of Silence (2018).

• Justice Denied? Compensation for Miscarriages of Justice (2018).

• The Post Office Miscarriage of Justice (Editorial) (with David Ormerod) [2023] Crim. L.R. 509.

• The Westminster Commission on the CCRC (Editorial) (with David Ormerod) [2021] Crim. L.R. 335.

• Covid-19 and jury-less trials? (Editorial) [2020] Crim. L.R. 569.

• Why you should care about the right to trial by jury.

• Compensation for Miscarriages of Justice: Degrees of Innocence (2020) 79 Cambridge Law Journal 4.

• Criminal Law and the Society of Legal Scholars (with Natalie Wortley) (2017) 81 Journal of Criminal Law 278.

• Improving healthcare through the use of “medical manslaughter”? Facts, fears and the future (with Margot Brazier and others) (2016) 22 Clinical Risk 88.

• The 2011 English “Riots”: Prosecutorial Zeal and Judicial Abandon (with Carly Lightowlers) (2015) 55 British Journal of Criminology 65.

• Don’t Mention the War: The Court of Appeal, the Criminal Cases Review Commission and Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland (2013) 76 Modern Law Review 949.

• The Supreme Court on Compensation for Miscarriages of Justice: Is it Better that Ten Innocents Are Denied Compensation than One Guilty Person Receives It? (with Marny Requa) (2012) 75 Modern Law Review 387.

• Identifying Miscarriages of Justice: Why Innocence in the UK is Not the Answer (2007) 70 Modern Law Review 759.

• Post Office Horizon IT scandal - Justice Committee (2024).

• The Comparative Study of Miscarriages of Justice in Light of the English Experience (2020).

• Spotlight on COVID: Criminal justice and the future of the jury (2020).

• Writing Your Thesis (And Avoiding Procrastination) (2020).

• Assize Seminars 2018: Limitations to Loss of Self Control (2018).

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