Markus D. Dubber

University of Toronto - Faculty of Law

Professor of Law

78 and 84 Queen's Park

Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C5

Canada

http://www.law.utoronto.ca/faculty-staff/full-time-faculty/markus-dubber

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

63

DOWNLOADS

28,750

TOTAL CITATIONS

37

Ideas:
“  Currently working on the rhetoric of peace in criminal law, the possibility of a modern legal treatise, and the relationship between criminal law principles and human rights law ... and building the Modern Criminal Law Review.  ”

Scholarly Papers (63)

1.

The American Model Penal Code: A Brief Overview

New Criminal Law Review, Vol. 10, pg. 319, 2007
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 04 Feb 2005 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2009
Paul H. Robinson and Markus D. Dubber
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
Downloads 2,258 (14,380)
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model penal code, criminal

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Comparative Criminal Law

Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law, 2006
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 23 Jan 2006
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
Downloads 2,088 (16,334)
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criminal law, comparative law, comparative criminal law

Theories of Crime and Punishment in German Criminal Law

Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper Series No. 2005-02
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 17 Oct 2005
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
Downloads 1,395 (29,818)
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criminal law theory, comparative criminal law, German criminal law, punishment theory, Rechtsgut

Theories of Crime and Punishment in German Criminal Law

American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 53, 2006, Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper Series No. 2005-02
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 23 May 2008 Last Revised: 25 Feb 2016
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
Downloads 203 (317,210)

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criminal law theory, comparative criminal law, German criminal law, punishment theory, Rechtsgut

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The Comparative History and Theory of Corporate Criminal Liability

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 21 Jul 2012
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
Downloads 1,522 (26,656)
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corporate criminal liability, corporations, personhood, mens rea, comparative law, criminal law, legal history, comparative legal history, Gierke, Savigny, Maitland, German criminal law, American criminal law

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Comparative Criminal Law: Histories, Functions, Topics

Handbook of Comparative Law (Reimann/Zimmermann 2d ed. OUP 2018)
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 09 Jan 2018
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
Downloads 1,203 (37,619)

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comparative criminal law, criminal law, legal history, comparative law, legal theory

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Introduction: Comparative Criminal Law

THE HANDBOOK OF COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL LAW, Kevin Heller & Markus Dubber, eds., Stanford University Press, 2010
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 12 Dec 2010
Kevin Jon Heller and Markus D. Dubber
University of Copenhagen (Centre for Military Studies) and University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
Downloads 1,173 (39,074)

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comparative law, criminal law, comparative criminal law, international law, international criminal law, international criminal court, criminal law theory

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Mens Rea: A Comparative Approach

Markus D. Dubber & Tatjana Hƶrnle, Criminal Law: A Comparative Approach (Oxford University Press 2014)
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 06 Apr 2014
Markus D. Dubber and Tatjana Hƶrnle
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law and Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
Downloads 1,075 (44,389)

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criminal law, comparative law, common law, civil law, U.S. law, German law

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The Promise of German Criminal Law: A Science of Crime and Punishment

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 28 Feb 2004 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2009
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
Downloads 1,062 (45,129)
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criminal law, comparative law, German law, punishment

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The Legality Principle in American and German Criminal Law: An Essay in Comparative Legal History

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 08 Jan 2011
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
Downloads 957 (52,203)
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comparative law, criminal law, legal history, constitutional law, comparative legal history, legality principle, nullum crimen sine lege, German criminal law, American criminal law

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A Political Theory of Criminal Law: Autonomy and the Legitimacy of State Punishment

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 14 Apr 2004
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Criminal law, legal theory, political theory, autonomy, empathy

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Legal History As Legal Scholarship: Doctrinalism, Interdisciplinarity, and Critical Analysis of Law

Oxford Handbook of Historical Legal Research, 2016
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 20 Jul 2017
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Critical Analysis of Law: Interdisciplinarity, Contextuality, and the Future of Legal Studies

Critical Analysis of Law: An International & Interdisciplinary Law Review, Vol 1, No 1 (2014)
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 20 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2014
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
Downloads 706 (78,525)
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critical analysis of law, interdisciplinary, legal studies, law as discipline, law as science, methodology, sociolegal studies, law and society, law and humanities, law and history, law and economics, law and sociology, law and philosophy, law and, comparative law

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New Historical Jurisprudence: Legal History as Critical Analysis of Law

2 Critical Analysis of Law 1 (2015)
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 25 Mar 2015
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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legal history, critical analysis of law, historical jurisprudence, Piketty, Armitage, Guldi

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The New Police Science and the Police Power Model of the Criminal Process

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 02 Dec 2004
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Criminal law, criminal process, police power, police science

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Toward a Constitutional Law of Crime and Punishment

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 28 Feb 2004
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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criminal law, constitutional law, autonomy, dignity

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'The Power to Govern Men and Things': Patriarchal Origins of the Police Power in American Law

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 07 Dec 2004
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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criminal law, legal theory, political theory, legal history, police power, police science

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Policing Possession: The War on Crime and the End of Criminal Law

Number of pages: 151 Posted: 13 Apr 2004
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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criminal law, criminal process, police power, possession, war on crime

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Histories of Crime and Criminal Justice and the Historical Analysis of Criminal Law

Oxford Handbook of the History of Crime and Criminal Justice (Paul Knepper & Anja Johansen, eds., Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 14 May 2014
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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history of criminal law, history of crime, history of criminal justice, critical analysis of law, critical legal histories

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Criminal Law Between Public and Private Law

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 03 Nov 2009
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Criminal law, legal theory, public law, private law, Roman law

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Making Sense of the Sense of Justice

Buffalo Law Review, Vol. 53, 2005
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 19 Oct 2005
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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sense of justice, empathy, sense of language, punishment theory

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Criminal Law in Comparative Context

Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2007-008, Journal of Legal Education, Vol. 56, pp. 433-443, September 2006
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 23 Jul 2007
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
Downloads 409 (153,898)

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criminal law, comparative law, comparative criminal law, transnational perspectives, law teaching, law casebooks, law textbooks

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The Criminal Trial and the Legitimation of Punishment

THE TRIAL ON TRIAL, R.A. Duff et al. eds., 2004
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 14 Apr 2004
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
Downloads 391 (161,860)

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Criminal process, trial, legitimacy, punishment, autonomy, empathy

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The American Law Institute’s Model Penal Code and European Criminal Law

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 27 Feb 2011
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
Downloads 362 (176,310)
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European Criminal Law, American Criminal Law, Model Penal Code, Criminal Codification, Criminal Law Reform, American Law Institute, European Law Institute, EU Law

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'An Extraordinarily Beautiful Document': Jefferson's Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments and the Challenge of Republican Punishment

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 15 Jul 2005
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Criminal law, legal theory, political theory, legal history, police power, police science

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Preventive Justice: The Search for Principles

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 23 Aug 2011
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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preventive justice, preventive state, police power, ASBO, control order, Blackstone, Pound, Williams

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Perspectives on the Power and Science of Police

THE NEW POLICE SCIENCE: THE POLICE POWER IN DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL GOVERNANCE, Dubber & Valverde, eds., Stanford University Press, 2006
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 12 Apr 2012
Markus D. Dubber and Mariana Valverde
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law and University of Toronto - Centre of Criminology
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Putting the Legal Treatise in its Place

LAW BOOKS IN ACTION: ESSAYS ON THE ANGLO-AMERICAN LEGAL TREATISE, Fernandez & Dubber, eds., 2012
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 06 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 23 May 2012
Angela Fernandez and Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law and University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
Downloads 323 (199,507)
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treatise, legal history, legal texts

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The Victim in American Penal Law: A Systematic Overview

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 17 Apr 2004
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Victims, victims' rights, criminal law, criminal procedure

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Introduction: Regarding Criminal Law Historically

MODERN HISTORIES OF CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, Dubber & Farmer, eds., Stanford University Press 2007
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 12 Apr 2012
Markus D. Dubber and Lindsay Farmer
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law and University of Glasgow - Faculty of Law & Financial Studies
Downloads 281 (231,272)
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criminal law, legal history, crime, punishment, legal theory, political theory, police, police power, police science

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Policing Morality: Constitutional Law and the Criminalization of Incest

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 08 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2011
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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criminal law, constitutional law, autonomy, police, incest, homosexual sex, Lawrence v. Texas

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Legitimating Penal Law

Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2007-009, Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 28, pp. 2597-2612, 2007
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 23 Jul 2007
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
Downloads 275 (236,506)

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criminal law, legal theory, political theory, police, law

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Ultima Ratio as Caveat Dominus: Legal Principles, Police Maxims, and the Critical Analysis of Law

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 05 Jul 2013
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
Downloads 271 (242,824)
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ultima ratio, last resort, criminal law, constitutional law

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Commonwealth v. Keller: The Irrelevance of the Legality Principle in American Criminal Law

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 09 Jan 2010
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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principle of legality, common law crimes, morals offenses, nullum crimen sine lege, legal theory, vagueness, ex post facto, lenity, actus reus, mens rea

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The State as Victim: Treason and the Paradox of American Criminal Law

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 24 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 31 Dec 2009
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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treason, offenses against the state, criminal law, English criminal law, allegiance, fealty, paterfamilias

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Foundations of State Punishment in Modern Liberal Democracies: Toward a Genealogy of American Criminal Law

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 08 Oct 2009
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
Downloads 258 (252,346)
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criminal law, political theory, philosophy of criminal law, history, genealogy

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Grounding Criminal Law: Foundational Texts in Comparative-Historical Perspective

Foundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law (Oxford University Press 2014)
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 06 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 22 May 2014
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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criminal law, comparative law, criminal law theory, history of criminal law

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Dignity in Penal Law and Penal Police

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 03 Jan 2010
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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criminal law, dignity, autonomy, police, law, constitution

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The War on Terror and U.S. Criminal Law

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 12 Dec 2009
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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terrorism, war on terror, U.S. criminal law, war on crime

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Legalizing Drug Criminal Law

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 25 Nov 2009
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Criminal law, legal theory, drug law

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American Plea Bargains, German Lay Judges, and the Crisis of Criminal Procedure

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 49, No. 3, 1996
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 13 Sep 1996 Last Revised: 25 Feb 2016
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Paradigms of Penal Law

Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law (Dubber & Hƶrnle eds., 2014)
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 06 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 22 May 2014
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
Downloads 222 (292,421)
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criminal law, criminal law theory, criminal law history, comparative criminal law, political theory, police power

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Common Civility: The Culture of Alegality in International Criminal Law

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 11 Jun 2011
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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international criminal law, global administrative law, criminal law, international law, administrative law

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The Integration of Substantive Criminal Law in the United States

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 27 Dec 2005
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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criminal law, code reform

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Criminal Jurisdiction and Conceptions of Penality in Comparative Perspective

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 21 Jul 2012
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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jurisdiction, criminal jurisdiction, international criminal law, territoriality, personality, protective principle, universality, universal jurisdiction

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Rediscovering Hegel's Theory of Crime and Punishment

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 92, No. 6, 1994
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 21 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2011
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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criminal law, punishment theory, Hegel, dignity, rationality, political theory

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Criminal Justice in America: Constitutionalization Without Foundation

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 18 Mar 2012
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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criminal law, constitutional law, comparative law, legal theory

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Regulatory and Legal Aspects of Penality

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 29 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2009
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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regulation, law, legal theory, police, autonomy, heteronomy, criminal law, penal law, punishment

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The Citizen in Penal Law

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 08 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2009
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Criminal law, legal theory, political theory, citizenship, terrorism, Feindstrafrecht, enemy criminal law

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Criminal Process in the Dual Penal State: A Comparative-Historical Analysis

Oxford Handbook of Criminal Process, 2016
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 20 Jul 2017
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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The Model Penal Code, Legal Process, and the Alegitimacy of American Penality

Foundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law (Oxford University Press 2014)
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 05 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 22 May 2014
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Model Penal Code, Herbert Wechsler, American Law Institute, criminal law, codification, Legal Process, police power, police science

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Colonial Criminal Law and Other Modernities: European Criminal Law in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century

Oxford Handbook of European Legal History, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 28 Jun 2017
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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criminal law, legal history, comparative law, European law, comparative criminal law, modernity, colonial criminal law, codification, German criminal law

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The Unprincipled Punishment of Repeat Offenders: A Critique of California's Habitual Criminal Statute

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 43, No. 1, 1990
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 23 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2011
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Recidivism, punishment theory, repeat offenders

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The Dual Penal State: The Crisis of Criminal Law in Comparative-Historical Perspective (Introduction)

The Dual Penal State: The Crisis of Criminal Law in Comparative‑Historical Perspective, OUP 2018
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 08 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 19 Aug 2018
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
Downloads 140 (439,570)

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criminal law, law, police, critical analysis of law, dual penal state

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The Schizophrenic Jury and Other Palladia of Liberty: A Critical Historical Analysis

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 13 Apr 2015
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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jury, lay participation, mixed courts, English jury, American jury, German jury, French jury, New Historical Jurisprudence, autonomy, police, law

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American Penality between Law and Police: Critical Analysis of Law and the New Police Science

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 05 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2013
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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criminal law, criminal procedure, penal law, penality, interdisciplinary, critical analysis

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Prudence and Substance: How the Supreme Court's New Habeas Retroactivity Doctrine Mirrors and Affects Substantive Constitutional Law

American Criminal Law Review, Vol. 30, No. 1, 1992
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 22 Jul 2011
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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On the Draft of a General Part for the Canadian Criminal Code: Commentary

TOWARDS A CLEAR AND JUST CRIMINAL LAW: A CRIMINAL REPORTS FORUM, Don Stuart et al., eds.,Toronto: Carswell, 1999
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 24 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2011
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Canadian Criminal Code, codification, criminal law, criminal codification, codification theory

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The Police Power: Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government

Markus D. Dubber, THE POLICE POWER: PATRIARCHY AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT, Columbia University Press, 2005
Posted: 25 Nov 2009
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law

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criminal law, legal theory, political theory, legal history, police power, police science

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Criminalizing Complicity: A Comparative Analysis

Journal of International Criminal Justice, Vol. 5, Issue 4, pp. 977-1001, 2007
Posted: 08 Jul 2008
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law

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The Possession Paradigm: The Special Part and the Police Model of the Criminal Process

DEFINING CRIMES, R.A. Duff, S. Green, eds., Oxford University Press, 2005
Posted: 14 Apr 2004
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law

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criminal law, criminal process, possession, special part

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Victims in the War on Crime: The Use and Abuse of Victims' Rights

Markus Dubber, VICTIMS IN THE WAR ON CRIME: THE USE AND ABUSE OF VICTIMS' RIGHTS, NYU Press 2002
Posted: 07 May 2002
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law

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The Web of Penal Law: A New Approach to the Study and Teaching of American Penal Law

Posted: 14 Oct 1998
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law

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The Right to Be Punished

Posted: 17 Apr 1998
Markus D. Dubber
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law

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