India's New Criminal Codes: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead A panel discussion of the new Indian criminal codes. Participants will provide an overview of the reform project as well as exploring what has -- and hasn't -- changed in the three codes in question: Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 (to replace the Indian Penal Code 1860), […]

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 a matter of making wrongdoers suffer (as Prof Leo Zaibert tends to put it). Reflecting on her long and path-breaking career devoted to understanding prisons, in […]

The Ubiquity of Universal Jurisdiction: Perspectives on the Nexus of Domestic and International Criminal Law 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 beyond the territoriality principle, in civil law and common law countries, […]