The Issues in Criminal Justice lecture series is an annual series of lectures held at the University of Birmingham Law School focusing on the most pertinent and problematic issues in criminal justice today. About to begin the eighth series of lectures, the Issues in Criminal Justice series is firmly established as an unmissable occasion for students, professionals and practitioners alike to engage in high-level debate on the shape and structure of the criminal justice system.

Convenor: Professor Stephen Shute

2009:

• The Rt Hon Lord Igor Judge, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
• Dame Anne Owers, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons
• The Rt Hon Jack Straw MP, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice

2008:

• Sir Ken Macdonald QC, Director of Public Prosecutions
• Baroness Scotland QC, Attorney General
• Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty

2007:

• Mr Andrew Bridges, ' What is achievable when managing dangerous offenders in the community?'
• The Rt Hon Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, Lord Chief Justice, 'Murder'
• Professor Lucia Zedner, 'Preventive justice or pre-punishment? The case of control orders'

2006:

• The Rt Hon Charles Clarke MP, Protecting the Public and Reducing Reoffending
• Professor Andrew von Hirsch, Incivilities: Penalising Offensive Behaviour
• Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws QC, Questions of Liberty

2005:

• Professor Graham Zellick, Compensating Victims of Criminal Violence
• Lord Goldsmith, Reflections On The Criminal Justice System And The Balance Between Defence And Prosecution
• Mr Martin Narey, The Challenge Of Reducing Reoffending

2004:

• Lord Falconer, A Criminal Justice System for the 21st Century | available to download as a pdf file |
• Mr Marcel Berlins, Lies, Media and Justice: distorting the criminal justice system | available to download as a pdf file |
• Professor Stephen Shute, Ethnic Minorities in the Criminal Courts: perceptions of fairness and equality of treatment

2003:

• Sir David Calvert-Smith, What will the Criminal Justice System look like in 2004?
• Professor Sir Colin Campbell, The Judicial Appointments System
• Professor Sir Anthony Bottoms, Community Penalties in Late Modern Societies

2002:

• Professor Andrew Ashworth, Avoiding Human Rights
• Sir Robin Auld,
• Professor David Downes, The Development of New Labour's Criminal Justice Policy

2001:

• Professor Roger Hood, Capital Punishment: A Global Perspective
• Sir David Ramsbotham, What Price Imprisonment?
• Professor Rod Morgan, The Judiciary in the Magistrates’ Court: Present Practice and Future Prospects