Brief Bio

Dr Hannah Quirk is a Reader in Criminal Law at King’s College London and is General Editor of The Criminal Law Review. She read Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge, followed by a M.Phil in Criminology. Her PhD is in Legal Studies from the University of Wolverhampton. She was Senior Researcher at the Legal Services Research Centre (the research unit of the Legal Services Commission). Her research interests develop her previous work as a Case Review Manager at the Criminal Cases Review Commission, investigating claims of wrongful conviction and sentence. In 2005, she spent six months on a research sabbatical at the Innocence Project New Orleans, before joining the Law School at the University of Manchester (2005-2018). She was a visiting scholar at the University of Melbourne, Queen’s University Belfast (both 2009) and Fordham University Law School (2012). She appears regularly in the media discussing aspects of criminal justice and she hosted a series of talks with the attorneys from the Netflix documentaries Making a Murderer and The Staircase. Her book The Rise and Fall of the Right of Silence was published by Routledge in 2016.

Course Taught at CTLS

• Miscarriages of Justice (Spring 2025)