Professor A.P. Simester elected to a fellowship at Cambridge University’s Wolfson College

Professor Andrew Simester has been elected to a fellowship at Cambridge University’s Wolfson College.

Formerly a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Professor Simester is Yorke Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge, where he has been teaching on the LLM programme since 1994.

The Fellowship at Wolfson College has a limited number of Fellows at the Professorial level, appointed chiefly in virtue of their outstanding scholarly distinction. Through his election, Professor Simester will join this small number. He has been elected in recognition of his widely recognised expertise in criminal-law doctrine and of his outstanding contributions in recent years to the philosophy of criminal law. Those latter contributions include analyses of the boundaries of criminal intent, criminal negligence, liability for omissions, and the criteria for criminalising harmful or offensive conduct.

When he is in Cambridge, Professor Simester will also be conducting research at the Centre for Penal Theory and Penal Ethics at the Institute of Criminology, of which he is Senior Research Fellow and an active participant.

Professor Simester joined the NUS Faculty of Law in August 2006 and teaches criminal law and theory, as well as legal research methodologies. He is a leading scholar and educator in the fields of applied legal philosophy and criminal law, and has published extensively across every major common law jurisdiction.