2026 Nicola Lacey: Law Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Law	37	140	126	14	12	236	6474

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Law in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Nicola Lacey is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a specific focus on sociology and political science, law, and political science and international relations. In addition, they have contributions in cognitive neuroscience and general health professions.

Their main research topics include:

Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
Law in Society and Culture
Free Will and Agency
Judicial and Constitutional Studies
Torture, Ethics, and Law
Legal principles and applications
Political Philosophy and Ethics

Nicola Lacey has published extensively in legal and social sciences venues, including:

SSRN Electronic Journal
The Monist
Modern Law Review
Crime and Justice
London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online

Some recent papers by Nicola Lacey are:

Why Standing to Blame May Be Lost but Authority to Hold Accountable Retained: Criminal Law as a Regulative Public Institution (2020, The Monist)
Institutionalising Interpersonal Ideas in Law (2024, Modern Law Review)
Getting Proportionality in Perspective: Philosophy, History, and Institutions (2021, Crime and Justice)
Getting Proportionality in Perspective: Philosophy, History and Institutions (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)

In addition to journal publications, Nicola Lacey has contributed to book publications, including a title published by eBooks:

H.L.A.: (2021)

Frequent co-authors include:

David Soskice
Hanna Pickard
Lucia Zedner
Kristina Kolbe
Chris Upton-Hansen

Best Publications

Not Just Deserts: A Republican Theory of Criminal Justice.

Nicola Lacey;John Braithwaite;Philip Pettit

1281
Citations
Punishment, Communication, and Community

Nicola Lacey

742
Citations
The prisoners' dilemma political economy and punishment in contemporary democracies

Nicola Lacey

298
Citations
The Politics of Community: A Feminist Critique of the Liberal-Communitarian Debate

Elizabeth Frazer;Nicola Lacey

280
Citations
The Prisoners’ Dilemma: Punishment in contemporary democracies

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266
Citations
Unspeakable Subjects: Feminist Essays in Legal and Social Theory

Nicola Lacey

205
Citations
State Punishment: Political Principles and Community Values

Nicola Lacey

137
Citations
Communitarianism

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135
Citations
In Search of Criminal Responsibility

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135
Citations
To Blame or to Forgive? Reconciling Punishment and Forgiveness in Criminal Justice

Nicola Lacey;Hanna Pickard

104
Citations
In search of the responsible subject: history, philosophy and social sciences in criminal law theory

Nicola Lacey

102
Citations
The Chimera of Proportionality: Institutionalising Limits on Punishment in Contemporary Social and Political Systems.

Nicola Lacey;Hanna Pickard

99
Citations
Feminist legal theory

Nicola Lacey

98
Citations
Responsibility and modernity in criminal law

Nicola Lacey

98
Citations
From the Consulting Room to the Court Room? Taking the Clinical Model of Responsibility Without Blame into the Legal Realm

Nicola Lacey;Hanna Pickard

91
Citations
Historicising Criminalisation: Conceptual and Empirical Issues

Nicola Lacey

82
Citations
Crime, punishment and segregation in the United States: The paradox of local democracy:

Nicola Lacey;David Soskice

76
Citations
Discourses of community in criminal justice

Nicola Lacey;Lucia Zedner

72
Citations
A Life of H. L. A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream

Nicola Lacey

71
Citations
Legislation against sex discrimination: questions from a feminist perspective

Nicola Lacey

70
Citations
Women, crime, and character: from Moll Flanders to Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Nicola Lacey

64
Citations
Understanding the Determinants of Penal Policy: Crime, Culture, and Comparative Political Economy

Nicola Lacey;David Soskice;David Hope

46
Citations
Populism and the Rule of Law

Nicola Lacey

43
Citations
Legal constructions of crime

Nicola Lacey

30
Citations
The Jurisprudence of Discretion:Escaping the Legal Paradigm

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28
Citations
In Search of Criminal Responsibility

Nicola Lacey

6
Citations
Punishment and Welfare@@@Giving Desert Its Due

Nicola Lacey;David Garland;Wojciech Sadurski

2
Citations
:Answering for Crime: Responsibility and Liability in the Criminal Law

Nicola Lacey

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Lucia Zedner University of Oxford

Naila Kabeer London School of Economics and Political Science

Mike Savage London School of Economics and Political Science

Gunther Teubner Goethe University Frankfurt

David Garland New York University

Christine Chinkin London School of Economics and Political Science

Hugh Collins London School of Economics and Political Science

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