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Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment (A Book Forum)

This MCLR+ event on David Garland’s Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment (Princeton 2025) gathers an international and interdisciplinary panel of scholars to reflect on […]

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Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment (A Book Forum)

This MCLR+ event on David Garland’s Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment (Princeton 2025) gathers an international and interdisciplinary panel of scholars to reflect on […]

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2025 feature Special Issue: Modern Debtors' Prison

Mod Crim L Rev 2:1 (2025): Between Modern Debtors’ Prison & Modern Peonage: Economic & Poverty Sanctions in Global Perspective

This Special Issue with an international & interdisciplinary line-up critically analyzes economic discrimination and poverty sanctions in criminal justice systems around the world. Criminal justice systems the world over are […]

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Impoverished and Incarcerated: The Ethics of Converting Fines into Community Service (Gustavo A. Beade)

➡︎ download | save | print➡︎ read the rest of this Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue Impoverished and Incarcerated: The Ethics of Converting Fines into Community Service Gustavo A. […]

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Interrelations of “Debt” and “Guilt” in Criminal Law: Reconsidering a Nietzschean Narrative in the Context of Late Capitalism (Morten Boe)

➡︎ download | save | print➡︎ read the rest of this Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue Interrelations of “Debt” and “Guilt” in Criminal Law: Reconsidering a Nietzschean Narrative in […]

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Fines and the Freedom of Consumption (Patricia Faraldo Cabana)

➡︎ download | save | print➡︎ read the rest of this Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue Fines and the Freedom of Consumption Patricia Faraldo Cabana* I. Introduction For a […]

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Location, Relocation, and Dislocation: Sanctioning the Poor Through Document Service in Taiwan’s Criminal Legal System (Mao-hong Lin)

➡︎ download | save | print➡︎ read the rest of this Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue Location, Relocation, and Dislocation: Sanctioning the Poor Through Document Service in Taiwan’s Criminal […]

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Monetary Sanctions and Poverty in Malawi’s Criminal Justice System (Chikondi M. Mandala & Sarai Chisala Tempelhoff)

➡︎ download | save | print➡︎ read the rest of this Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue Monetary Sanctions and Poverty in Malawi’s Criminal Justice System Chikondi M. Mandala* & […]

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Retaining the “Premium on Poverty”: India’s Perplexing Persistence with a Monetary Bail Regime (Abhinav Sekhri)

➡︎ download | save | print➡︎ read the rest of this Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue Retaining the “Premium on Poverty”: India’s Perplexing Persistence with a Monetary Bail Regime […]

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Settler Colonialism and Financial Predation (Brieanna Watters & Robert Stewart)

➡︎ download | save | print➡︎ read the rest of this Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue Settler Colonialism and Financial Predation Brieanna Watters & Robert Stewart* In November 2021, […]

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Criminal Law and the Constitution of the Postcolony: India (A Book Panel)

Imagine adopting a constitution notionally designed to install “The People” as the true repository of sovereign power and to throw off the colonial yoke, yet retaining a criminal justice system […]

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Criminal Law and the Constitution of the Postcolony: India (A Book Panel)

Imagine adopting a constitution notionally designed to install “The People” as the true repository of sovereign power and to throw off the colonial yoke, yet retaining a criminal justice system […]

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Haste Makes Waste: Notes on Implementing India’s New Criminal Codes (Abhinav Sekhri)

➡︎ Supplementary Materials Haste Makes Waste: Notes on Implementing India’s New Criminal Codes Abhinav Sekhri* Two years ago, on August 11, 2023, the Union Government of India introduced three new […]

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Criminal Law and the Constitution of the Postcolony: India (A Book Panel) (Nov 4, 2025)

  Imagine adopting a constitution notionally designed to install “The People” as the true repository of sovereign power and to throw off the colonial yoke, yet retaining a criminal justice […]

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From Treason to Trump: Felony’s Medieval Origins and Modern Resilience (A Book Forum)

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 appearance as […]

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Felony and the Interdisciplinary Frounce (Elise Wang)

➡︎ read the rest of this Forum➡︎ Supplementary Materials (“Felony”) Felony and the Interdisciplinary Frounce Elise Wang* I want to begin by thanking Drs. Butler, Jahner, Ristroph, and Taylor for […]

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Felon, Felonesse, President (Jamie Taylor)

➡︎ read the rest of this Forum➡︎ Supplementary Materials (“Felony”) Felon, Felonesse, President Jamie Taylor* Our understanding of what a felony is, how it should be prosecuted, and who should […]

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Law, Not-Law, and the Felon in Between (Alice Ristroph)

➡︎ read the rest of this Forum➡︎ Supplementary Materials (“Felony”) Law, Not-Law, and the Felon in Between Alice Ristroph* The term “felony” does not “lack … definition.”[1] To the contrary, […]

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Felony, Fact-Finding, and Medieval Due Process (Jennifer Jahner)

➡︎ read the rest of this Forum➡︎ Supplementary Materials (“Felony”) Felony, Fact-Finding, and Medieval Due Process Jennifer Jahner* From early in its history, English common law understood process as integral […]

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Why Legal Historians Need to Read Literature (Sara M. Butler)

➡︎ read the rest of this Forum➡︎ Supplementary Materials (“Felony”) Why Legal Historians Need to Read Literature Sara M. Butler* For years, literary historians, like John Alford, Emily Steiner, and […]