For some time, the term “lawfare” has spread throughout the domestic political-legal discourse, jurisprudence, and scholarship of countries and political systems in Latin America, notably–but by no means exclusively–Brazil […]
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Nordic criminal law is often thought of as a distinctive tradition and mode of thinking about and making criminal law. But what are we talking about when we are […]
This two-part international & interdisciplinary workshop explores economic discrimination in criminal justice systems around the world. Criminal justice systems the world over are run through with economic discrimination: from […]
This two-part international & interdisciplinary workshop explores economic discrimination in criminal justice systems around the world. Criminal justice systems the world over are run through with economic discrimination: from […]
This panel discussion of the new Indian criminal codes featuring five leading Indian criminal law experts provides an overview of the reform project as well as exploring what has–and hasn’t–changed […]
This panel discussion of the new Indian criminal codes featuring five leading Indian criminal law experts provides an overview of the reform project as well as exploring what has–and hasn’t–changed […]
A panel discussion of the new Indian criminal codes. Participants will provide an overview of the reform project as well as exploring what has–and hasn’t–changed in the three codes […]
Alison Liebling and Leo Zaibert of the University of Cambridge, England, explore the modern prison as a site of suffering from the perspectives of empirical criminology and philosophical ethics. Prisons […]
Alison Liebling and Leo Zaibert of the University of Cambridge, England, explore the modern prison as a site of suffering from the perspectives of empirical criminology and philosophical ethics. Prisons […]
This event reflects on the increased number of cases in domestic criminal courts that rely on each country’s assertion of universal jurisdiction. What justifies the assertion of universal jurisdiction beyond […]
This event reflects on the increased number of cases in domestic criminal courts that rely on each country’s assertion of universal jurisdiction. What justifies the assertion of universal jurisdiction beyond […]
➡︎ PDF➡︎ Supplementary Materials Colonialism Redux for the Digital Age? What to Make of India’s New Criminal Codes Abhinav Sekhri* The press bureau report for the day the government minister […]
➡︎ PDF Rethinking Universal Criminal Jurisdiction: Toward a Multidimensional Framework Morten Boe* Universal criminal jurisdiction (UJ) has had an impressive, even turbulent, career during the last two decades. From a […]
This workshop will bring together contributors to the special issue on Criminal Law, Literature, and History (guest edited by Simon Stern, University of Toronto). The issue will explore relations […]
This workshop will feature contributors to the special issue on Reconstructing Criminal Law Revisited (guest edited by Nicola Lacey, London School of Economics & Political Science). In this special […]
The Prison and the Varieties of Suffering: An Exchange Prisons are the predominant means through which states punish wrongdoers. Punishment, by definition, is supposed to be painful, unpleasant, or […]
An international panel discussion of Decolonizing the Criminal Law: Colonial Legacies, Contemporary Problems (Oxford UP 2023) featuring the four co-editors of the book. [From the OUP website:] Within the discipline […]
An international panel discussion of Decolonizing the Criminal Law: Colonial Legacies, Contemporary Problems (Oxford UP 2023) featuring the four co-editors of the book. [From the OUP website:] Within the discipline […]
➡︎ PDF The Rockefeller Foundation’s Model Penal Code: Probing the Private Origins of American Criminal Law Daniel Friedman* The drafting and publication of the Model Penal Code (MPC) in 1962 […]
➡︎ PDF Anti-Slavery and the War on Gangs: Colonialism, Racial Capitalism, and the State Insa Koch* On 18th October 2023, Britain is celebrating its annual Anti-Slavery Day. Initiated by a […]