Dr Rachel Clement Tolley
- John Collier Fellow and College Lecturer (Trinity Hall)
- Deputy Director, Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice (CCCJ)
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About
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.
Research
Research centres: Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice (CCCJ)
Publications
Selected publications
Harmfulness and Wrongfulness in Sex-by-Deception
Journal article
1 February 2024
(2025) 19 Criminal Law, Philosophy, 137–151
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Jeremy Horder, ‘Rethinking Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person' (1994)
Chapter
1 August 2023
In Leading Works in Criminal Law (eds Kennedy and Farmer), Routledge
Rachel Clement Tolley
Deception, Mistake and Difficult Decisions
Chapter
1 December 2021
In Reforming the Relationship between Sexual Consent, Deception and Mistake (eds Criminal Law Reform Now)
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Deception and Consent to Sex
Journal article
1 June 2019
(2019) 78 CLJ 264
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Consent to Body Modification in Criminal Law
Journal article
1 November 2018
(2018) 77 CLJ 415
Rachel Clement Tolley