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Nordic Criminal Law as a Normative Project: A Book Forum

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 talking […]

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Nordic Criminal Law as a Normative Project: A Book Forum

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 talking […]

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2024 India intervention

Perpetual Criminal Law “Reform” and Violence Against Women: The Indian Codification Experiment Stumbles to the Starting Line (Abhinav Sekhri)

➡︎ Supplementary Materials Perpetual Criminal Law “Reform” and Violence Against Women: The Indian Codification Experiment Stumbles to the Starting Line Abhinav Sekhri* On July 1, 2024, which is barely a […]

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Lawfare in Comparative Context (June 13, 2024)

  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 as a Normative Project: A Book Forum (May 30, 2024)

  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 […]

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2024 event feature India Special Issue: Modern Debtors' Prison

Between Modern Debtors’ Prison & Modern Peonage (Pt. 2) (Sep 21, 2024)

  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 […]

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2024 event feature Special Issue: Modern Debtors' Prison

Between Modern Debtors’ Prison & Modern Peonage (Pt. 1) (Sep 13, 2024)

  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 […]

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2024 audio books event India

India’s New Criminal Codes: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead

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 […]

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India’s New Criminal Codes: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead

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 […]

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India’s New Criminal Codes: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead (Mar 14, 2024)

  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 […]

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The Prison and the Varieties of Suffering: An Exchange

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 […]

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The Prison and the Varieties of Suffering: An Exchange

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 […]

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The Ubiquity of Universal Jurisdiction: Perspectives on the Nexus of Domestic and International Criminal Law

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 […]

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The Ubiquity of Universal Jurisdiction: Perspectives on the Nexus of Domestic and International Criminal Law

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 […]

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2024 India intervention

Colonialism Redux for the Digital Age? What to Make of India’s New Criminal Codes (Abhinav Sekhri)

➡︎ 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 piloted […]

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Rethinking Universal Criminal Jurisdiction: Toward a Multidimensional Framework (Morten Boe)

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 historical oddity […]

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Criminal Law, Literature, and History: A Special Issue Workshop (June 25, 2024)

  This workshop brings 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 between […]

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The Prison and the Varieties of Suffering: An Exchange (Feb 8, 2024)

  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 […]

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2023 audio books

Decolonizing the Criminal Question: A Book Panel

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 […]

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Decolonizing the Criminal Question: A Book Panel

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 […]