Academic Profile

Professor of European Criminal Law and Justice; formerly Jean Monnet Senior Lecturer in European Integration at the University of Leicester. Visiting positions: Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Penal Law, Freiburg, Germany (2001, 2003); School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia (1995-6); Institute of Criminology, Cambridge (1994).

Member of the Centre for Criminological Research and Sheffield Centre for International and European Law.

Qualifications

• MPhil, University of Cambridge;
• BA(hons) Law, University of Nottingham

Research Interests

• EU, transnational and comparative criminal law and justice, particularly the evolving penal competence of the EU and its role in governance;
• punishment and sentencing;
• understanding, communication and management of risk;
• inter-disciplinary research approach: can be described as broadly "socio-legal", as well as criminological.

Key Publications

Baker, E. & Ashworth, A.J. (2010) The role of previous convictions in England & Wales. In J.V. Roberts & A. von Hirsch (eds) Previous Convictions at Sentencing: Theoretical & Applied Perspectives. Hart. pp 185-206

Baker, E. (2010) Governing through crime – the case of the European Union. European Journal of Criminology, 7(3), 187-213

Baker, E. (2009) The European Union's "Area of Freedom, Security and (Criminal) Justice" ten years on. Criminal Law Review. pp 833-850

Baker, E. and Harding, C.S. (2009) From past imperfect to future perfect? A longitudinal study of the Third Pillar. European Law Review, 34(1), 25-54

Baker, E. and Roberts, J.V. (2005) Globalisation and the new punitiveness. In Pratt, J., Brown, D., Hallsworth, S., Brown, M. and Morrison, W. (eds) The New Punitiveness: Current Trends, Theories, Perspectives. Willan. pp 121-138

Baker, E. (2002) Criminal jurisdiction, the public dimension to effective protection and the construction of Community-citizen relations. In Dashwood, A.A. et al (eds) Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies 2001, vol 4. Hart. pp 25-46

Recent Invited Papers and Keynote Lectures

The emerging role of the EU as a penal actor: paper to workshop on European Penology?, Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, July 2010

Without a third pillar: European cooperation in justice and criminal policy under Lisbon, keynote address to After Lisbon: The Future of European Law and Policy conference, Institute of European Law, University of Birmingham, June 2010

Challenges for the Court of Justice in police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters: paper to The Future of Criminal Justice under the Lisbon Treaty conference, Swedish Ministry of Justice, Stockholm, May 2010

Transitional periods – how and when will the third pillar 'dissolve'?: paper to The Future of European Criminal Justice under the Lisbon Treaty conference, Academy of European Law, Trier, March 2010

The role of previous convictions at sentencing in England and Wales, seminar on Previous Convictions at Sentencing: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives, Centre for Penal Law and Ethics, Centre for Criminological Research, Oxford, April 2009 (with Andrew Ashworth)

Developing an inter-disciplinary understanding of the European Union's evolving penal strategy, Centre for Responsibilities, Rights & the Law, University of Sussex, October 2008

Jurisdictional case histories: Previous convictions in practice, England and Wales, seminar on Sentencing Repeat Offenders, Centre for Penal Law and Ethics, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge, May 2008

Professional Activities and Recognition

• Trustee, Fair Trials International 2002-2008 and Chair of the Board of Trustees 2006-2008;
• International expert assessor for the Belgian Science Policy Office 2007;
• Invited participant at seminar of academic experts held by the Serious Organised Crime Agency 2005.

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Punishment & Penal Policy
• Current Issues in EU Law
• EU Law

Postgraduate and MA

• Freedom, Security & Criminal Justice in the EU
• International Criminal Justice
• Issues in Comparative Penology

Areas of Research Supervision

EU, transnational and comparative criminal law and justice (including the "Area of Freedom, Security and Justice");
Punishment, sentencing and penal policy;
Governance, legitimacy and citizenship in the context of the above areas;
Criminal law