Grounding Criminal Law: Foundational Texts in Comparative-Historical Perspective
Foundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law (Oxford University Press 2014)
23 Pages Posted: 6 Jan 2014 Last revised: 22 May 2014
Date Written: January 6, 2014
Abstract
This essay reflects on some of the major themes running through Foundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law, a collection of essays in which contemporary scholars engage critically with formative texts in criminal legal thought since Hobbes. This project aims to contribute to the emergence of a canon, along with a documentary intellectual and disciplinary history, of modern criminal law and, at the same time, to take a snapshot of contemporary work on criminal law within that historical context.
Keywords: criminal law, comparative law, criminal law theory, history of criminal law
JEL Classification: K14
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