{"id":1359,"date":"2013-06-27T16:59:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T20:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2025-08-07T12:03:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:03:36","slug":"kroeger-college-welcomes-new-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/2013\/kroeger-college-welcomes-new-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Kroeger College welcomes new director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Kroeger College welcomes new director\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Prof. Barry Wright of the Department of Law and Legal Studies becomes the third director of Kroeger College on July 1, 2013.&nbsp; He replaces Christopher Dornan, who served as director from 2007-2013, and who followed in the footsteps of founding director Eileen Saunders, who served from 1999-2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. Wright (B.A., History, University of Toronto; LL.B., Osgoode Hall Law School, York University; LL.M., London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London ; Ph.D., Osgoode Hall, York University) is Professor of Law, History, and Criminology at Carleton University. He has been a faculty member at Carleton since 1986, a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London (1993-4) and is a regular academic visitor at T.C. Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland. His teaching and research areas include legal history, criminal and constitutional law, and legal, political and social theory. His research focuses on 19<sup>th<\/sup> century criminal law reform, comparative 19th century British colonial legal history as well as political trials and the administration of national security measures in Canadian history. His most recent book, co-edited with Stanley Yeo and Wing-Cheong Chan of the National University of Singapore, is <em>Codification, Macaulay and the India Penal Code: The Legacies and Modern Challenges of Criminal Law Reform <\/em>(Ashgate UK, 2011). He is currently completing the fourth volume (1914-39) of the Canadian State Trials series (co-edited with Susan Binnie and Eric Tucker, published by the Osgoode Society and University of Toronto Press).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Barry Wright of the Department of Law and Legal Studies becomes the third director of Kroeger College on July 1, 2013.&nbsp; He replaces Christopher Dornan, who served as director from 2007-2013, and who followed in the footsteps of founding director Eileen Saunders, who served from 1999-2006. Prof. Wright (B.A., History, University of Toronto; LL.B., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions\/1487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}