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2026 event feature Special Issue: Criminal Law and Language

Criminal Law and Language (June 4, 2026)

    This workshop brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of contributors to a forthcoming Special Issue of the Modern Criminal Law Review, showcasing a selection of cutting-edge work […]

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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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2025 audio books event feature Special Issue: Inducing Intimacy

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

Mod Crim L Rev 1:2 (2025): Criminal Law, Literature, and History

The essays in this Special Issue (guest edited by Simon Stern, University of Toronto) trace out and experiment with a wide array of connections that link the theory, history, and […]

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

Introduction: Crime and Literature, Narrative and Doctrine (Simon Stern)

➡︎ download | save | print➡︎ read the rest of this Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue Introduction: Crime and Literature, Narrative and Doctrine Simon Stern* Criminal law has always […]

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

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

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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Law, Conscience, and Russian National Identity: “Higher Justice” in the Shadow of the War (Anna Schur)

➡︎ download | save | print➡︎ read the rest of this Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue Law, Conscience, and Russian National Identity: “Higher Justice” in the Shadow of the […]

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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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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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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 […]