Nicola Padfield

Nicola Margaret Padfield (née Helme; born 16 May 1955) is a British barrister and academic. She is the current Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, since her appointment in October 2013.^[1][2] She is Reader in Criminal and Penal Justice in the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.^[3] In addition to her academic work, she is a Recorder of the Crown Court, and a Bencher of the Middle Temple.^[4]

Early life and education

Padfield was born on 16 May 1955 in Windlesham, Surrey, England.^[5] She then studied Jurisprudence at St Anne's College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1976;^[6] as per tradition, her BA was later promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Oxon) degree.^[5][7] She then studied for a Diploma in Criminology at Darwin College, Cambridge, which she completed in 1977.^[5] From 1978 to 1979, she studied French Law at the University of Aix-Marseille, and completed a Diplome des Etudes Superieures.^[6]

Career

Legal career

Padfield was called to the bar on 27 July 1978. She then practised as a criminal law barrister.^[4] On 31 October 2002, she was appointed a Recorder (a part-time judge)^[8] She sits in the South Eastern Circuit and the Crown Court.^[7][8] She became a Bencher of Middle Temple on 3 February 2009.^[4]

Academic career

From 1990 to 1991, Padfield was an Alumni Affairs Officer at the University of Cambridge.^[5] In 1991, she was elected a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.^[7] From 1992 to 2014, she was an academic of the Cambridge Institute of Criminology: she was an affiliated lecturer from 1992 to 1996, a lecturer from 1998 to 2002, and a senior lecturer from 2002 to 2004.^[5] She then moved to the Faculty of Law, where she was a senior lecturer from 2005 to 2012.^[5] For the 2008/2009 academic year, she was Professeur Invité at the University of Poitiers in France.^[6] In 2012, she was promoted to Reader in Criminal and Penal Justice.^[5][7]

In March 2013, Padfield was announced as the next Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, in succession to Robert Lethbridge.^[1] She took up the appointment in October 2013, becoming the 8th Master of Fitzwilliam College.^[7]

Personal life

In 1979, she married Christopher Padfield.^[5] He is an engineer and academic; he works at the University of Cambridge and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.^[9] Together, they have three children; two sons and one daughter.^[5]

Selected works

• Padfield, Nicola (1995). The Criminal Justice Process: Text and Materials (1st ed.). London: Butterworths. ISBN 978-0406052438. 
• Padfield, Nicola (1998). A guide to the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. London: Butterworths. ISBN 978-0406905246. 
• Walker, Nigel; Padfield, Nicola (1996). Sentencing: theory, law, and practice (2nd ed.). London: Butterworths. ISBN 978-0406063250. 
• Padfield, Nicola (2002). Beyond the tariff: human rights and the release of life sentence prisoners. Cullompton: Willan. ISBN 978-1903240885. 
• Padfield, Nicola, ed. (2007). Who to release?: parole, fairness and criminal justice. Cullompton: Willan. ISBN 978-1843922278. 
• Padfield, Nicola; Smit, Dirk van Zyl; Dünkel, Frieder, eds. (2010). Release from prison: European policy and practice. Cullompton: Willan. ISBN 978-1843927419. 
• Padfield, Nicola (2012). Criminal law (8th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199644353. 
• Padfield, Nicola (2014). Criminal law (9th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198704164. 
• Padfield, Nicola, ed. (2014). Blackstone's statutes on criminal justice & sentencing (5th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199582310. 
• Padfield, Nicola; Bild, Jonathan (2015). Text and Materials on the Criminal Justice Process (5th ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1138918337. 

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