Professor Carolyn Hoyle joins Doughty Street Chambers' Academic Expert Panel

Doughty Street Chambers (DSC) has announced the appointment of Professor Carolyn Hoyle to its Academic Expert Panel.

Members of the DSC Academic Expert Panel often serve in advisory roles, providing DSC barristers with valuable insights and expertise on complex legal issues.

Carolyn Hoyle is Professor of Criminology at Oxford, Fellow of Green Templeton College, and Director of Oxford's Death Penalty Research Unit. An internationally recognised criminologist and socio-legal scholar, she has more than 30 years' experience researching criminal justice, punishment and human rights. Her principal areas of expertise are capital punishment, wrongful convictions and post-conviction review, gender-based violence, victims and victimisation, and restorative justice.

Doughty Street Chambers was formed in 1990 and was the first barristers' chambers to set up outside the Inns of Court.