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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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
➡︎ download | save | print➡︎ read the rest of this Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue Reconstructing Criminal Law Revisited Nicola Lacey* Progressive legal scholarship in recent decades has […]
➡︎ download | save | print➡︎ read the rest of this Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue What Does It Mean to Reconstruct Criminal Law? Reading Mannheim’s Criminal Justice and […]
➡︎ download | save | print➡︎ read the rest of this Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue Hyper-Knowledge and the Legitimation of Criminal Law Arlie Loughnan* Knowledge conditions are central […]
➡︎ 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 […]
➡︎ 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 […]
➡︎ 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 […]
➡︎ 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 […]
➡︎ download | save | print➡︎ read the rest of this Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue Should We Abolish Hate Crime Law or Is There a Case for Its […]
➡︎ download | save | print➡︎ read the rest of this Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue Finding Common Ground: Reconstructing Criminology with Epistemic Justice Meredith Rossner, Elfie Shiosaki & […]
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 […]
For some time, the term “lawfare” has spread throughout the domestic political-legal discourse, jurisprudence, and scholarship of countries and political systems in Latin America, notably–but by no means exclusively–Brazil and […]
➡︎ read the rest of this Forum➡︎ Supplementary Materials (“Lawfare”) Indicators of Lawfare: Assessing the Criminalization of Progressive Politics in Latin America Valeria Vegh Weis* 1. Introduction In countries such […]
➡︎ read the rest of this Forum➡︎ Supplementary Materials (“Lawfare”) In Defense of Lawfare Rocío Lorca* The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.William Shakespeare, Henry VI, pt. […]
➡︎ read the rest of this Forum➡︎ Supplementary Materials (“Lawfare”) Lawfare as a Bridge Between Socio-Legal Theory and Practice Mark Friis Hau* These are political operatives that I’m dealing with […]
➡︎ read the rest of this Forum➡︎ Supplementary Materials (“Lawfare”) Lawfare or the Politicization of the Criminal Justice System: The Case of Spain Manuel Cancio Meliá* I. Introduction In Spain, […]
➡︎ read the rest of this Forum➡︎ Supplementary Materials (“Lawfare”) Lawfare and the Indian Legal System Gautam Bhatia* Lawfare is commonly understood to refer to the use (or abuse)—that is, […]