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2024 event Special Issue: Criminal Law, Literature, and History

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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2024 event

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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2024 event

The Ubiquity of Universal Jurisdiction: Perspectives on the Nexus of Domestic and International Criminal Law (Jan 18, 2024)

  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 […]

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2023 audio event India

Criminalizing Sedition: The Indian Debate in International Perspective

Classic legacy of colonialism, or a necessary legal implement to protect the nation-state from threats to its sovereignty? These are the seemingly competing perspectives on offer as the Indian legal […]

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2023 event India video

Criminalizing Sedition: The Indian Debate in International Perspective

Classic legacy of colonialism, or a necessary legal implement to protect the nation-state from threats to its sovereignty? These are the seemingly competing perspectives on offer as the Indian legal […]

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2023 books event

Decolonizing the Criminal Question: A Book Panel (Nov 20, 2023)

  Join us for 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 […]

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2025 event feature Special Issue: Criminal Law, Literature, and History

Special Issue: Criminal Law, Literature, and History (spring 2025)

This issue will explore relations between criminal law, literature, and history, covering a wide geographical and historical range, on topics relating to both law and procedure. Contributors: Simon Stern (Canada, […]