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The Modern Criminal Law Review Podcast
by Modern Criminal Law Review
Welcome to the Modern Criminal Law Review Podcast! MCLR+ is a collaborative project designed to facilitate multilateral discourse about criminal law across countries, systems, and disciplines: a global platform for a global subject. MCLR+ is international, interdisciplinary, and multimedia: it features contributions from any disciplinary, doctrinal, or domestic perspective and in any format or medium that may shed light on one of the most vexing, and urgent, topics in law and governance.
Episodes
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Ancient Criminal Law: A Global Perspective
This international workshop features contributors to our forthcoming Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue on “Ancient Criminal Law: A Global Perspective,” guest edited by Clifford Ando (University of Chicago). Recent years have witnessed several revolutions in the study of ancient law. These...
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Criminal Law and Language
This MCLR+ workshop brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of contributors to a forthcoming Special Issue of the Modern Criminal Law Review, showcasing a selection of cutting-edge work representing a wide spectrum of methodological approaches to the study of the intersection...
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Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment
This MCLR+ event 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 on several of the fundamental analytic and normative issues explored in this…
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Criminal Law and the Constitution of the Postcolony: India (A Book Panel)
Imagine adopting a constitution notionally designed to install “The People” as the true repository of sovereign power and to throw off the colonial yoke, yet retaining a criminal justice system designed to maximize the police power of the colonial sovereign. That’s what happened when India…
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Inducing Intimacy: International Perspectives on Sexual Fraud
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 through the criminal law–by taking a broadly interdisciplinary approach....
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Indian Criminal Law Since 2010: What’s Changed?
On the occasion of the forthcoming publication of the second edition of the Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law (1st ed. 2010) [https://www.sup.org/books/law/handboo...], a panel of experts reflects on what has (and hasn’t) changed in Indian criminal law over the past decade and a half. Among…
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From Treason to Trump: Felony’s Medieval Origins and Modern Resilience
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 the ur-crime of Anglo-Saxon proto-criminal law, commentators, historians, and...
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Between Modern Debtors’ Prison & Modern Peonage (Pt. 2)
This is Part 2 of a two-part international & interdisciplinary workshop exploring economic discrimination in criminal justice systems around the world. [Part 1 (Fri, Sept 13, 2024) is here: https://crimlrev.net/2024/09/14/betwe...] Criminal justice systems the world over are run through with...
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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 through with economic discrimination: from the pre-trial stage (bail, and cash bail in…
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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 Simon Stern, University of Toronto). The issue will explore relations between criminal law,...
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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 means exclusively–Brazil and Argentina. It has been invoked, in various senses and for various...
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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 Nordic criminal law worth appreciating, preserving, or perhaps even developing, and, if so, why?...
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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 the three codes in question: Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 (to replace the Indian Penal Code…
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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. Prisons are the predominant means through which states punish wrongdoers. Punishment, by definition…
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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 universal jurisdiction beyond the territoriality principle, in civil law and common law countries, in the...
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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 legacies at the heart of criminological enquiry. Featuring the four co-editors of the book....
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Criminalizing Sedition: The Indian Debate in International Perspective
Sedition: classic legacy of colonialism, or necessary to protect the nation-state from threats to its sovereignty? An international panel of experts from India, Chile, and Spain explores the issues. Abhinav Sekhri is a legal writer and lawyer practicing in New Delhi, India. He specializes in...
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Welcome to the Modern Criminal Law Review Podcast! MCLR+ is a collaborative project designed to facilitate multilateral discourse about criminal law across countries, systems, and disciplines: a global platform for a global subject. MCLR+ is international, interdisciplinary, and multimedia: it features contributions from any disciplinary, doctrinal, or domestic perspective and in any format or medium that may shed light on one of the most vexing, and urgent, topics in law and governance.
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