Foundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law (South Asian Edition)

Foundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law presents essays in which scholars from various countries and legal systems engage critically with formative texts in criminal legal thought since Hobbes. It examines the emergence of a transnational canon of criminal law by documenting its intellectual and disciplinary history and provides a snapshot of contemporary work on criminal law within that historical and comparative context.

Criminal law discourse has become, and will continue to become, more international and comparative, and in this sense global: the long-standing parochialism of criminal law scholarship and doctrine is giving way to a broad exploration of the foundations of modern criminal law. The present book advances this promising scholarly and doctrinal project by making available key texts, including several not previously available in English translation, from the common law and civil law traditions, accompanied by contributions from leading representatives of both systems.

• Documents the intellectual history of modern criminal law
• Describes the historical context of contemporary work on criminal law and its theory
• Includes translations of formative texts from PJA Feuerbach, JMF Birnbaum, Gustav Radbruch, and Gunther Jakobs, published in English for the first time

Introduction. Grounding Criminal Law: Foundational Texts in Comparative-Historical Perspective, Markus D Dubber
1.:Hobbes on "Diffidence" and the Criminal Law, Alice Ristroph
2.:Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments:A Mirror on the History of the Foundations of Modern Criminal Law, Bernard E Harcourt
3.:Blackstone's Criminal Law: Common-Law Harmonization and Legislative Reform, Simon Stern
4.:Foundations of the Legislative Panopticon: Bentham's Principles of Morals and Legislation, Guyora Binder
5.:Dignity, Crime, and Punishment: A Kantian Perspective, Meir Dan-Cohen
6.:PJA von Feuerbach and his Textbook of the Common Penal Law, Tatjana Hörnle
7.:The Contraction of Crime in Hegel's Rechtsphilosophie, Alan Brudner
8.:Mill's On Liberty and the Modern "Harm to Others" Principle, Bernard E Harcourt
9.:James Fitzjames Stephen: The Punishment Jurist, Marc O DeGirolami
10.:Pashukanis and Public Protection, Peter Ramsay
11.:Radbruch on the Origins of the Criminal Law: Punitive Interventions before Sovereignty, Mireille Hildebrandt
12.:The Model Penal Code, Legal Process, and the Alegitimacy of American Penality, Markus D Dubber
13.:The Modest Ambition of Glanville Williams, Lindsay Farmer
14.:The Radical Orthodoxy of Hart's Punishment and Responsibility, Malcolm Thorburn
15.:Criminal Law as an Efficiency-Enhancing Device: The Contribution of Gary Becker, Alon Harel
16.:Foucault, Criminal Law, and the Governmentalization of the State, Pat O'Malley and Mariana Valverde
17.:Nils Christie: "Conflicts as Property", Vidar Halvorsen
18.:Günther Jakobs's Feindstrafrecht: A Dispassionate Account, Daniel Ohana
Appendix A.:Textbook of the Common Penal Law in Force in Germany, Paul Johann Anselm Feuerbach
Appendix B.:Concerning the Need for a Right Violation in the Concept of a Crime, having particular Regard to the Concept of an Affront to Honour, Johann Michael Franz Birnbaum
Appendix C.:The Origin of Criminal Law in the Status of the Unfree, Gustav Radbruch
Appendix D.:On the Theory of Enemy Criminal Law, Günther Jakobs