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, […]

Decolonizing the Criminal Question: A Book Panel Join us for an international panel discussion of Decolonizing the Criminal Law: Colonial Legacies, Contemporary Problems (Oxford UP 2023) featuring the four co-editors of the book. Within the discipline of criminology and criminal justice, relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between criminal law, punishment, and […]