Sally Cunningham
Senior Lecturer
LLB (Leicester), LLM (Leicester), PhD (Leicester)
Email: sally.cunningham@le.ac.uk
Telephone: 0116 252 2372
Sally Cunningham was appointed Lecturer in Law at Leicester in January 2004, and finished her doctorate here later that same year. She was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2011. Previously she was a Research Assistant at Coventry University where she worked on an empirical study of homicide, focusing on how the law operates in practice to reduce charges of murder to convictions for manslaughter. She returned to Leicester to study for her PhD, having completed both the LLB Law with French and LLM Criminal Law and Justice here. Her thesis built upon the empirical work at Coventry, focusing on one particular type of homicide: vehicular homicide. Her interest in road traffic offences later broadened and she published a book entitled Driving Offences: Law, Policy and Practice with Ashgate in 2008. She is co-editor on the 6th and 7th editions of the popular criminal law textbook by Clarkson and Keating. Sally has recently worked on a project funded by the Ministry of Justice studying police and CPS files relating to serious offences (with Professor Burton and Dr Cammiss). She is currently working on a study of the new causing death by driving offences created by the Road Safety Act 2006, funded by the SLS and an AHRC Early Career Fellowship (last updated October 2011).
Sally teaches Criminal Law and Criminal Justice System.
Research Interests
Criminal Law and Criminal Justice.
Selected Publications
- “Complicating Complicity: Aiding and Abetting Causing Death by Dangerous Driving in R v Martin” (2011) 74(5) Modern Law Review 767-793
- “Recklessness: being reckless and acting recklessly” (2010) 21(3) King’s Law Journal 445-467
- Driving Offences: Law Policy and Practice (Ashgate, 2008).
- “Vehicular Homicide: Need for a Special Offence?” in CMV Clarkson, C.M.V. and Cunningham, S., Criminal Liability for Non-Aggressive Death (Ashgate, 2008) (forthcoming)
- “Punishing drivers who kill: putting road safety first?” (2007) 27(2) Legal Studies 288
- (with CMV Clarkson and HM Keating) Clarkson and Keating: Criminal Law: Text and Materials 7 th ed. (Sweet & Maxwell, 2010)
- (with B Mitchell) “Defences to Murder” in Law Commission Report No. 304 Murder, manslaughter and Infanticide, Appendix C, 2006
- “The Unique Nature of Prosecutions in Cases of Fatal Road Traffic Collisions” [2005] Crim.L.R. 834.
Teaching
Sally teaches Criminal Law and Criminal Justice System.
Research Supervision
Sally welcomes approaches from prospective doctoral candidates in any field of Criminal Law and/or Justice, but especially the investigation of, or substantive law relating to, violent offences and traffic offences. She currently supervises PGR students researching subjects as diverse as identity theft, incest and chemical castration.
