This MCLR+ Book Forum on David Garland’s Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment (Princeton 2025) gathers an international and interdisciplinary panel of scholars to reflect […]
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➡︎ read the rest of this Forum Concepts, Comparisons, Conjunctures: Reflections on Law and Order Leviathan David Garland* I’m grateful to the forum contributors – to José, Patricia, Katja, Rocío, […]
➡︎ read the rest of this Forum How to Explain an Outlier? Reflections on Law and Order Leviathan Sara Wakefield* David Garland’s Law and Order Leviathan (2025) presents a wide-ranging […]
➡︎ read the rest of this Forum Garland’s Law and Order Leviathan: Sources of Moderation Outside the Penal System Rocío Lorca* It is not easy to find a book where […]
➡︎ read the rest of this Forum Understanding Leviathan Today: Time to Bring in Immigration Katja Franko* Reading David Garland’s Law and Order Leviathan was a welcome reconnection with my […]
➡︎ read the rest of this Forum David Garland’s Law and Order Leviathan: On the Present and Future of the Punishment and Society Research Agenda José A. Brandariz & Patricia […]
➡︎ Supplementary Materials Haste Makes Waste: Notes on Implementing India’s New Criminal Codes Abhinav Sekhri* Two years ago, on August 11, 2023, the Union Government of India introduced three new […]
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 […]
➡︎ 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 […]
➡︎ 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 […]
➡︎ 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, […]
➡︎ 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 […]
➡︎ 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 […]
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, […]
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 […]