Louise Kennefick

Louise Kennefick is a Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law at the University of Glasgow. Her work explores how and why we blame others, and what that means for individuals and communities. Her book, The Boundaries of Blame: Towards a Universal Partial Defence for the Criminal Law (CUP, 2025), looks at how ideas of justice might support a universal partial defence in criminal law. She also recently co-edited The Routledge International Handbook of Criminal Responsibility (Routledge, 2025), bringing together leading voices in the field. Louise’s research on community supervision draws on the real experiences of those involved to build theory from the ground up. She has received several awards and fellowships, most recently from the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2026) for work on criminal responsibility and neurodiversity.