Amanda Clough-Ricci

Amanda Clough-Ricci is an Assistant Professor in the Law Department at Northumbria University. She specializes in criminal law with a focus on partial defences to murder, consent, and sexual offences, often conducting comparative analyses between UK/Australian legal systems. She teaches criminal law, gender, and sexuality on the LLB program, and leads the Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship module. Her current research explores abused children committing parricide and contributes to UN SDG 4 (Quality Education).

Education includes a PhD (Northumbria University), LLB (University of Sunderland), and PGCert in Law (Liverpool John Moores University). Her work examines legal reforms in homicide cases, coercive control, and fault theories in criminal law. She collaborates internationally and publishes in high-impact journals like Journal of Criminal Law.

Research trends emphasize legal comparisons across jurisdictions, with recent focus on stealthing criminalization and provocation reforms. She actively engages in public discourse through media mentions and open-access publishing.