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Professor Dennis J. Baker (M.A., Ph.D. Cambridge), F.R.S.A., is a distinguished criminal law scholar at De Montfort University's Leicester De Montfort Law School. His career spans leadership roles as Head/Dean at the University of Surrey, where he founded the Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy and the China Law Centre, and a decade as Reader in Criminal Law at King’s College London. He has authored 6,000 pages across five books and numerous journal articles, with research influencing judicial decisions in the Supreme Court of the United States, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong. His work focuses on complicity, harm principle, and the moral limits of criminal law.
- Education: M.A., Ph.D. in Law from the University of Cambridge
- Research Interests: Criminal Law, Penal Theory, Legal Philosophy, Comparative Law
Professor Baker’s publications, including Reinterpreting Criminal Complicity and Inchoate Participation Offences (2016) and The Right Not to be Criminalized (2011), have been cited in landmark cases and legal reforms. His recent articles address joint enterprise doctrine, cybercrime, and the criminalization of cosmetic surgery, reflecting a trend toward analyzing normative frameworks and doctrinal coherence across jurisdictions. Awards include Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Visiting Professorships in China.
- Scientific Awards:
- F.R.S.A.
- Visiting Professor at Wuhan Law School, Chinese University of Political Science and Law, Northeast Normal University, Zhejiang Normal University
