by Mark Dsouza In this post, I argue against some recent suggestions that the criminal law should consider treating AI entities as autonomous agents, capable of being criminal defendants in their o…

by Mark Dsouza – A short note in memory of Andreas von Hirsch and Alexander Greenberg, both of whom passed away recently.

This lecture will be delivered by Professor Antje du Bois-Pedain, as part of the Current Legal Problems Lecture Series 2025-26

This UCL200 conference brings UK-based academics into dialogue with colleagues from South Korea to exchange ideas in criminal law and jurisprudence.

organised by Mark Dsouza (UCL), Matthew Dyson (Oxford, Chair), Paul Jarvis (CBA) and Rachel Clement Tolley (Cambridge)

organised by Mark Dsouza (UCL), Matthew Dyson (Oxford, Chair), Paul Jarvis (CBA) and Rachel Clement Tolley (Cambridge)

The Legal Philosophy Workshop (LPW) is an annual conference designed to foster reflection on the nature of law and the philosophical issues underlying its different areas. Our aim is to promote work t...

by Sorcha McCormack In this post, I argue that humans are not rational robots; rather, we are defined, in part, by our vulnerability to circumstances and to each other. The law relating to sexual c…

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by Marthe Goudsmit Samaritter In this post, I argue that the wrongfulness of image-based sexual abuse lies in its infringement of personhood, and that this infringement is more fully captured when …

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Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law (CUP) by Chloë Kennedy

Professor Andrew Simester is Dean of National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Law, and Amaladass […]

This open access collection of 17 original essays is the first volume to provide an in-depth exploration of the potential of a rights-based approach to criminal…

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by Adam Kolber In this post, I outline the argument I make in my recently published book, Punishment for the Greater Good. I argue that a pure consequentialist approach to punishment (one that deni…

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by Alexander Sarch In this post, I argue that the criminal law can fairly take D’s actions to manifest traits/attitudes that we know D lacked, when: (1) D knows of a convention that will attribute …

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by Mark Dsouza In this post, I argue against some recent suggestions that the criminal law should consider treating AI entities as autonomous agents, capable of being criminal defendants in their o…

Accessible, Interesting, Excellent

Accessible, Interesting, Excellent

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by Levin Güver In this post, I push back against recent suggestions that not all deviations between criminal law and morality are to be regretted (such that we should see them as cases in which we …

This lecture is organised by the UCL Centre for Criminal Law

The long read: Over the past 14 years, the Conservative dream of a free market in higher education has collided with the harsh reality of austerity and the cultural resentment of the radical right – d...