Between Modern Debtors’ Prison & Modern Peonage: Economic & Poverty Sanctions in Global Perspective
This is Part 1 of a two-part international & interdisciplinary workshop exploring economic discrimination in criminal justice systems around the world. Criminal justice systems the world over are run...
14 Syys 20242h
Criminal Law, Literature, and History
This international & interdisciplinary MCLR+ workshop brings together contributors to the forthcoming Modern Criminal Law Review special issue on Criminal Law, Literature, and History (guest edited by...
29 Kesä 20241h 51min
Lawfare in Comparative Context
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 me...
14 Kesä 20242h 24min
Nordic Criminal Law as a Normative Project
Nordic criminal law is often thought of as a distinctive tradition and mode of thinking about and making criminal law. But what are we talking about when we are talking about “Nordic criminal law”? Is...
31 Touko 20242h
India’s New Criminal Codes: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead
This panel discussion of the new Indian criminal codes featuring five leading Indian criminal law experts provides an overview of the reform project as well as exploring what has–and hasn’t–changed in...
15 Maalis 20241h 52min
The Prison and the Varieties of Suffering: An Exchange
Alison Liebling and Leo Zaibert of the University of Cambridge, England, explore the modern prison as a site of suffering from the perspectives of empirical criminology and philosophical ethics. Priso...
9 Helmi 20241h 13min
The Ubiquity of Universal Jurisdiction: Perspectives on the Nexus of Domestic and International Criminal Law
This international panel 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 universa...
19 Tammi 20241h 33min
Decolonizing the Criminal Question: A Book Panel
An international panel discussion of Decolonizing the Criminal Law: Colonial Legacies, Contemporary Problems (Oxford UP 2023), the first work of its kind to comprehensively place colonialism and its l...
21 Marras 20231h 16min
