In conversation with David Garland
Location:
Moot Court Room
Old College
Date/time
Wed 2 July 2025
16:00-18:00
On the occasion of the award of an honorary degree by the University of Edinburgh, please join us for a couple of hours to celebrate and explore David’s long and distinguished career.
In the first part Richard Sparks will interview David about his many contributions, including a glance forward to his forthcoming book Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment (Princeton University Press). We will then invite questions and discussion from the floor.
Chair: Fernanda Díaz Vidal, Edinburgh Law School
About the speaker
Professor Garland is an elected Fellow of the British Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was Davis Fellow at Princeton University and a J.S. Guggenheim Fellow. He was Shimizu Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics in 2014, an Astor Lecturer at Oxford University in 2016, a visiting fellow at Sydney University Law School in 2022. His work has been recognised through the award of doctorates honoris causa by the Free University of Brussels (2009), Oslo University (2017) and the University of Edinburgh (2025), and by the 2012 American Society of Criminology Edwin H. Sutherland Prize for outstanding contributions to theory and research.
His current work focuses on comparative and structural explanations of America’s distinctive use of policing and punishment and on the genealogy of the idea of the “welfare state” in British political discourse. His latest book, entitled Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment will be published by Princeton University Press in autumn 2025.