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John Collier Fellow and College Lecturer (Trinity Hall); Deputy Director, Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice (CCCJ)

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CV / Biography

Rachel Tolley is a College Associate Professor in Law at Trinity Hall, where she teaches Criminal Law, and Criminal Procedure and Evidence. Rachel completed her BA (Jurisprudence), BCL and DPhil at The University of Oxford. Her main areas of research lie in the sexual offences and she is particularly interested in the impact of deception and mistake on consent-validity. More broadly, Rachel is interested in criminal law doctrine and theory, with a specific interest in matters of fair labelling and various intersections between disability and the law.

Selected publications

 

Articles

"Harmfulness and Wrongfulness in Sex-by-Deception" (2025) 19 Criminal Law, Philosophy, 137–151

Citation:
(2025) 19 Criminal Law, Philosophy, 137–151
Published: Feb 2024

"Deception and Consent to Sex" (2019) 78 CLJ 264

"Consent to Body Modification in Criminal Law" (2018) 77 CLJ 415

Book Chapters

"Jeremy Horder, ‘Rethinking Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person' (1994)" in Kennedy and Farmer (ed(s)), Leading Works in Criminal Law, 2023)

"Deception, Mistake and Difficult Decisions" in Criminal Law Reform Now (ed(s)), Reforming the Relationship between Sexual Consent, Deception and Mistake, 2021)