Roberts, Paul

Professor of Criminal Jurisprudence, University of Nottingham School of Law, UK, and Adjunct Professor of Law, China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL), Beijing. He graduated from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Roberts researches and teaches in the areas of criminal procedure and evidence, forensic science, criminal justice and legal theory, with a particular emphasis on comparative, international and philosophical perspectives. He has served as an advisor to the Law Commissions of England and Wales and of Scotland, to the Crown Prosecution Service, and to the UK Forensic Science Regulator.

Recent publications include Roberts and Zuckerman’s Criminal Evidence (OUP, 3rd edition, 2022); Roberts and Stockdale (eds), Forensic Science Evidence and Expert Witness Testimony (EE, 2018); and Hunter, Roberts, Young and Dixon (ed), The Integrity of Criminal Process (Hart, 2016). In addition to a dozen books and major research reports, Roberts has published over 100 other articles, essays, notes and reviews in law, criminology, philosophy and forensic science books and journals.