James Browning

James’s doctoral research centres on the relationship between criminal law and drug addiction. The interdisciplinary project places findings from philosophy and neuroscience alongside traditional doctrinal research in order to examine the ethical challenges of the contemporary legal framework. An example of his recent work includes an examination of the location of moral responsibility in addiction pathways, which will form part of an edited collection on prior fault due for publication by Hart in 2026.

In addition to his doctorate, James teaches criminal law at Cambridge and has previously taught the law of negligence at the London School of Economics. He holds an LLB from the latter, as well as an LLM from the University of Birmingham. Before taking up his current role at Cambridge, James worked as a journalist at The Lawyer magazine in London, where he published widely on developments within the UK’s legal sector.