Nicola Lacey is Professor of Law, Gender and Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).  She was awarded a CBE for services to law, justice and gender politics in the New Year's Honours list. From 1998 to 2010 she held a Chair in Criminal Law and Legal Theory, also at LSE. She is an Honorary Fellow of New College Oxford and of University College Oxford; a Fellow of the British Academy; and a member of the Board of Trustees of the British Museum.