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2025 article books feature Special Issue: Criminal Law, Literature, and History

The “Lady” Again: The Persecution, and Prosecution, of Lady Chatterley’s Lover in India (Abhinav Sekhri)

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2025 article books feature Special Issue: Criminal Law, Literature, and History

Truth, Trial, Tragedy: The Cultural Frame of Criminal Law (Daria Bayer)

➡︎ download | save | print➡︎ read the rest of this Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue Truth, Trial, Tragedy: The Cultural Frame of Criminal Law Daria Bayer* Prologue CHORUS […]

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2025 audio event feature India

Indian Criminal Law Since 2010: What’s Changed?

On the occasion of the forthcoming publication of the second edition of the Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law (1st ed. 2010), a panel of experts reflects on what has (and hasn’t) changed […]

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Indian Criminal Law Since 2010: What’s Changed?

On the occasion of the forthcoming publication of the second edition of the Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law (1st ed. 2010), a panel of experts reflects on what has (and hasn’t) changed […]

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From Treason to Trump: Felony’s Medieval Origins and Modern Resilience

In The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature (Oxford 2024), Elise Wang explores the medieval origins and surprising modern resilience of “felony” in contemporary criminal law. Since its […]

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2025 books event feature video

From Treason to Trump: Felony’s Medieval Origins and Modern Resilience

In The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature (Oxford 2024), Elise Wang explores the medieval origins and surprising modern resilience of “felony” in contemporary criminal law. Since its […]

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2024 feature Special Issue: Reconstructing

Mod Crim L Rev 1:1 (2024): Reconstructing Criminal Law Revisited

In this Special Issue (guest edited by Nicola Lacey, LSE), a diverse range of authors confront questions about whether, and how, we can reconstruct criminal law (as well as its […]

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2024 article feature Special Issue: Reconstructing

Reconstructing Criminal Law Revisited (Nicola Lacey)

➡︎ download | save | print➡︎ read the rest of this Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue Reconstructing Criminal Law Revisited Nicola Lacey* Progressive legal scholarship in recent decades has […]

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2024 article feature Special Issue: Reconstructing

What Does It Mean to Reconstruct Criminal Law? Reading Mannheim’s Criminal Justice and Social Reconstruction (1946) (Lindsay Farmer)

➡︎ download | save | print➡︎ read the rest of this Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue What Does It Mean to Reconstruct Criminal Law? Reading Mannheim’s Criminal Justice and […]

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2024 article feature Special Issue: Reconstructing

Hyper-Knowledge and the Legitimation of Criminal Law (Arlie Loughnan)

➡︎ download | save | print➡︎ read the rest of this Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue Hyper-Knowledge and the Legitimation of Criminal Law Arlie Loughnan* Knowledge conditions are central […]

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2024 article feature Special Issue: Reconstructing

A Respect Standard for Sentencing (Gabrielle Watson)

➡︎ download | save | print➡︎ read the rest of this Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue A Respect Standard for Sentencing Gabrielle Watson* I. Introduction Respect has untapped potential […]

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2024 article feature Special Issue: Reconstructing

Excusing Unjustified Punishment: On Doing Criminal Justice in Unjust Societies (Rocío Lorca)

➡︎ download | save | print➡︎ read the rest of this Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue Excusing Unjustified Punishment: On Doing Criminal Justice in Unjust Societies Rocío Lorca* Struck […]

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2024 article feature Special Issue: Reconstructing

Re-Constructing Criminal Accountability for Human Rights Abuses: Argentina 1990-2024 (Alejandro Chehtman)

➡︎ download | save | print➡︎ read the rest of this Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue Re-Constructing Criminal Accountability for Human Rights Abuses: Argentina 1990-2024 Alejandro Chehtman* I. Introduction […]

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2024 article feature Special Issue: Reconstructing

Citizens, State Fallibilities, and Responsibility in Criminal Law (Marie Manikis)

➡︎ download | save | print➡︎ read the rest of this Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue Citizens, State Fallibilities, and Responsibility in Criminal Law Marie Manikis* I. Introduction Criminal […]

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2024 article feature Special Issue: Reconstructing

Should We Abolish Hate Crime Law or Is There a Case for Its Reconstruction? (Roxana Willis)

➡︎ download | save | print➡︎ read the rest of this Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue Should We Abolish Hate Crime Law or Is There a Case for Its […]

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2024 article feature Special Issue: Reconstructing

Finding Common Ground: Reconstructing Criminology with Epistemic Justice (Meredith Rossner, Elfie Shiosaki & Helen Taylor)

➡︎ download | save | print➡︎ read the rest of this Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue Finding Common Ground: Reconstructing Criminology with Epistemic Justice Meredith Rossner, Elfie Shiosaki & […]

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Indian Criminal Law Since 2010: What’s Changed? (April 4, 2025)

  On the occasion of the forthcoming publication of the second edition of the Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law (1st ed. 2010), a panel of experts reflects on what has […]

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2025 books event feature Special Issue: Inducing Intimacy

Inducing Intimacy: International Perspectives on Sexual Fraud (June 4, 2025)

    Chloë Kennedy’s Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law (Cambridge 2024) tackles an important and timely topic that resonates across jurisdictions worldwide–the regulation of deceptively induced intimacy, notably […]

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2024 event feature intervention

Lawfare in Comparative Context: An MCLR+ Forum

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 and […]

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Indicators of Lawfare: Assessing the Criminalization of Progressive Politics in Latin America (Valeria Vegh Weis)

➡︎ read the rest of this Forum➡︎ Supplementary Materials (“Lawfare”) Indicators of Lawfare: Assessing the Criminalization of Progressive Politics in Latin America Valeria Vegh Weis* 1. Introduction In countries such […]