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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) (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 […]

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Inducing Intimacy: International Perspectives on Sexual Fraud (A Book Symposium)

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 through the criminal law–by […]

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Inducing Intimacy: International Perspectives on Sexual Fraud (A Book Symposium)

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 through the criminal law–by […]

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Felon and Villain: The Literary Life of Felony (Elise Wang)

➡︎ download | save | print➡︎ read the rest of this Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue Felon and Villain: The Literary Life of Felony Elise Wang* I. Introduction Since […]

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Free Indirect Hearsay: Daniel Horsmanden’s Journal of the 1741 New York Conspiracy (Hannah Walser)

➡︎ download | save | print➡︎ read the rest of this Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue Free Indirect Hearsay: Daniel Horsmanden’s Journal of the 1741 New York Conspiracy Hannah […]

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

➡︎ download | save | print➡︎ read the rest of this Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue The “Lady” Again: The Persecution, and Prosecution, of Lady Chatterley’s Lover in India […]

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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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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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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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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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From Treason to Trump: Felony’s Medieval Origins and Modern Resilience (Jan 17, 2025)

  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 […]

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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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Aided by a Friendly Guide: Normativity as a Challenge for Nordic Criminal Law Science (Jørn Jacobsen)

➡︎ read the rest of this Forum➡︎ Supplementary Materials (“Nordic Criminal Law”) Aided by a Friendly Guide: Normativity as a Challenge for Nordic Criminal Law Science Jørn Jacobsen* Introduction While […]