Dr Daniel Bansal

I joined Leicester Law School in 2018. Prior to this, I held a lectureship at Coventry University. During my time at Coventry, I also held a visiting lectureship at the Southwest University of Political Science and Law (SWUPL) in Chongqing, China, where I taught law.

I received my PhD from the University of Birmingham after completing my doctoral thesis on causation in criminal law.

I am currently the Director of Education for the Law School, responsible for the delivery and development of the school’s taught programmes. I am also module convenor for the UG criminal law modules, and co-convenor of the Criminal Law Criminal Justice and Criminology research cluster at the University. 

I am a University Distinguished Teaching Fellow and Senior Fellow of the HEA.

Externally, I am an external examiner at Nottingham Law School, and I have previously worked for the QAA as a DQB subject expert assessor.

My research and teaching interests lie in the theory and doctrine of criminal law. I also have interests in equity and trusts and legal education.

I co-author a leading criminal law textbook, Clarkson & Keating: Criminal law (11th edn, 2024) together with S Kyd, T Elliott, and M Walters.

My current research projects relate to:

• Justified risk taking in criminal law
• Consent to bodily injury in criminal law
• Causation in criminal law (with Prof David Lagnado; Vanessa Cheung: UCL experimental psychology)
• Digital technologies within legal education and study equity. 

I am part of a team of academics from Leicester Law School and the School of Criminology delivering the University's first law-focused Prison-University Partnership.

D Bansal with M Canto-Lopez and J Guth (eds), 'Assessment in legal education' (2025) The Law Teacher special issue (with Editorial; forthcoming)

D Bansal with S Kyd, T Elliott, and M Walters, 'Clarkson & Keating: Criminal law' (11th edn, Sweet & Maxwell 2024) (forthcoming)

D Bansal and T Elliott, 'Consent to bodily injury and the public interest' in M Bone, J Child, J Rogers (eds), Criminal Law Reform Now (volume II) (Hart 2023) (forthcoming; 10,000 words).

D Bansal, 'Open book examinations: modifying pedagogical practices for effective teaching and learning' (2022) 56 The Law Teacher 354.

D Bansal, 'Bodily modifications and the criminal law' (2018) 82(6) Journal of Criminal Law 496.

D Bansal, 'Donatio mortis causa in a system of registration' (2018) 24(7) Trusts & Trustees 667.

D Bansal, 'Nicola Lacey: In Search of Criminal Responsibility: Ideas, Interests, and Institutions' (2017) 11(4) Criminal Law and Philosophy 861.

I welcome PhD proposals in any of the above research areas and in particular those adopting a doctrinal and theoretical approach to criminal law.

Current PhD students:

Megan Phillips: Criminalising Association After Jogee

LW2220 Criminal law (module convenor)

LW2370 Equity and trusts

LW3220 Advanced criminal law (module convenor)

Senior Fellow of the HEA (SFHEA)

PhD in Law (University of Birmingham)

LLM in Criminal law (University of Birmingham)

LLB Law (Coventry University)