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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)

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

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

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

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

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

Truth, Trial, Tragedy: The Cultural Frame of Criminal Law (Daria Bayer)

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2025 audio event feature India

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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2025 event feature India video

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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2025 books event feature video

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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2024 feature Special Issue: Reconstructing

Mod Crim L Rev 1:1 (2024): Reconstructing Criminal Law Revisited

In this Special Issue (guest edited by Nicola Lacey, LSE), a diverse range of authors confront questions about whether, and how, we can reconstruct criminal law (as well as its […]

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2024 article feature Special Issue: Reconstructing

Reconstructing Criminal Law Revisited (Nicola Lacey)

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2024 article feature Special Issue: Reconstructing

What Does It Mean to Reconstruct Criminal Law? Reading Mannheim’s Criminal Justice and Social Reconstruction (1946) (Lindsay Farmer)

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2024 article feature Special Issue: Reconstructing

Hyper-Knowledge and the Legitimation of Criminal Law (Arlie Loughnan)

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2024 article feature Special Issue: Reconstructing

A Respect Standard for Sentencing (Gabrielle Watson)

➡︎ download | save | print➡︎ read the rest of this Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue A Respect Standard for Sentencing Gabrielle Watson* I. Introduction Respect has untapped potential […]

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Excusing Unjustified Punishment: On Doing Criminal Justice in Unjust Societies (Rocío Lorca)

➡︎ download | save | print➡︎ read the rest of this Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue Excusing Unjustified Punishment: On Doing Criminal Justice in Unjust Societies Rocío Lorca* Struck […]

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2024 article feature Special Issue: Reconstructing

Re-Constructing Criminal Accountability for Human Rights Abuses: Argentina 1990-2024 (Alejandro Chehtman)

➡︎ download | save | print➡︎ read the rest of this Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue Re-Constructing Criminal Accountability for Human Rights Abuses: Argentina 1990-2024 Alejandro Chehtman* I. Introduction […]

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Citizens, State Fallibilities, and Responsibility in Criminal Law (Marie Manikis)

➡︎ download | save | print➡︎ read the rest of this Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue Citizens, State Fallibilities, and Responsibility in Criminal Law Marie Manikis* I. Introduction Criminal […]

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Should We Abolish Hate Crime Law or Is There a Case for Its Reconstruction? (Roxana Willis)

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