Criminal Law

Criminal Law @ UofT: Events

Criminal Law Sciences Club Schedule
Centre of Criminology Events 

April 19-21, 2013
Workshop on "Foundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law" Part II

Peter Ramsay (LSE), Evgeny Pashukanis
Shai Lavi (Tel Aviv), Walter Benjamin
Mireille Hildebrandt (Rotterdam), Gustav Radbruch
Malcolm Thorburn (Queen's), HLA Hart
Lindsay Farmer (Glasgow), Glanville Williams
Markus Dubber (UofT), Herbert Wechsler
Vidar Halvorsen (Oslo), Nils Christie
Alon Harel (Boston/Hebrew University), Gary Becker
Pat O'Malley (Sydney) & Mariana Valverde (UofT), Michel Foucault
Daniel Ohana (Hebrew University), Günther Jakobs

March 28, 2013
Criminal Law Sciences Club
James Stewart (UBC), "The Accomplice Liability of Arms Vendors: A Conceptual Defense"

March 19, 2013
Criminal Law Sciences Club
Martin Friedland (UofT), "Probability and Truth in the Criminal Justice System"

February 26, 2013
Criminal Law Sciences Club
Simon Stern (UofT)

February 12, 2013
Criminal Law Sciences Club
Leo Zaibert (Union)

January 25, 2013
Legal Theory Workshop
Chris Kutz (Berkeley), "Drones, Democracy, and the Responsibility for Killing"

January 22, 2012
Criminal Law Sciences Club
Hamish Stewart (UofT)

January 8, 2012
Criminal Law Sciences Club
Lindsay Farmer (Glasgow)

December 4, 2012
Criminal Law Sciences Club
Alessandro Spena (Palermo), "Iniuria Migrandi: Criminalization of Illegal Immigration and the Basic Principles of the Criminal Law"

November 20, 2012
Criminal Law Sciences Club
Vincent Chiao (UofT), "Against Punishment: Capabilities and Criminal Justice"

November 20, 2012
John LL. J. Edwards Memorial Lecture
Hon. Ian Binnie, "Taking Wrongful Convictions Seriously" 

November 17-18, 2012
Workshop on "Foundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law" Part I
Alice Ristroph (Seton Hall), Thomas Hobbes
Simon Stern (UofT), William Blackstone
Bernard Harcourt (Chicago), Cesare Beccaria
Guyora Binder (Buffalo), Jeremy Bentham
Meir Dan-Cohen (Berkeley), Immanuel Kant
Tatjana Hörnle (Berlin), PJA Feuerbach
Klaus Günther (Frankfurt), JMF Birnbaum
Alan Brudner (UofT), GWF Hegel
Bernard Harcourt (Chicago), JS Mill
Marc DeGirolami (St. John's), James Fitzjames Stephen

November 14, 2012
Criminal Law Sciences Club
James Q. Whitman (Yale), "The Failure of Retributivism in the American Common Law"

October 30, 2012
Criminal Law Sciences Club
Alan Brudner (UofT), "The Contraction of Crime" 

October 29, 2012
HIV & The Supreme Court: Criminal Nondisclosure after Mabior
Cynthia Fromstein (Fromstein Law)
Martha Shaffer (UofT)
Cecile  Kazatchkine (Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network) 

October 18, 2012
Health Law, Ethics and Policy Seminar Series
Amir Attaran (Ottawa), "Why and How to Make an International Crime of Medicine Counterfeiting"

October 16, 2012
Criminal Law Sciences Club
Sarah Armstrong (Glasgow), "Capacity as Philosophy"

October 2, 2012
Criminal Law Sciences Club
Lindsay Farmer (Glasgow), "The Institution of Criminal Law" 

September 28, 2012
Legal Theory Workshop
Doug Husak (Rutgers), "Abetting Crime" 

September 9-10, 2012
The Adolf Eichmann Trial: Retrospect and Prospect
Doris Bergen (UofT), Michael Marrus (UofT), Richard Wetzell (German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.) [Munk School of Global Affairs/Jackman Humanities Institute]

June 9, 2012
Flash Workshop on "Criminal Jurisdiction: Comparison, History, Theory"
Markus Dubber (UofT), "From the Outside Looking In: Criminal Jurisdiction in International Relations and Domestic Law"
Lindsay Farmer (Glasgow), "Jurisdiction and Criminalisation"
Mireille Hildebrandt (Rotterdam), "Extraterritorial Jurisdiction to Enforce in Cyberspace? Bodin, Schmitt, Grotius in Cyberspace"
Guyora Binder (Buffalo), "The Authority of International Criminal Courts to Punish"

May 12-13, 2012
Workshop on "Corporate Personhood and Criminal Liability"
Simon Stern (UofT), "The Corporate Person and Criminal Liability"
Markus Dubber (UofT), "The Comparative History of Corporate Criminal Liability"
Tracy Isaacs (Western), "Corporate Agency and Corporate Wrongdoing"
Ian Lee (UofT), "The Theorization of Corporate Personality in Corporate Law and Public Law"
Vincent Chiao (UofT), "List and Pettit on Group Agency and Group Responsibility"
Klaus Günther (Frankfurt), "Nulla poena sine lege and Corporate Personhood"
Thomas Weigend (Cologne), "What Does Corporate Criminal Liability Do to Criminal Law?"
Jonathan Bush (Columbia), "Two Problems in Corporate Liability at Nuremberg: Which Entities, Which Crimes?"
Doreen Lustig (Tel Aviv), "Sociological Legitimacy and Corporate Liability: The Case of the Industrialist Trials at Nuremberg"
James Stewart (UBC), "The Pragmatics of Corporate Responsibility for International Crimes: Beyond the Single Perfect Jurisdiction Fallacy"
Meir Dan-Cohen (Berkeley), "Epilogue"

March 26, 2012
Public Lecture
Alan Brudner (UofT), "Dignity as the End of Criminalization"

September 20, 2011
John LL. J. Edwards Memorial Lecture
Lucia Zedner (Oxford), "The Historical Origins of the Preventive State"

February 18, 2011
Crime & Punishment Workshop
Guyora Binder (Buffalo), "Making the Best of Felony Murder"

January 31, 2011
Book Panel/Crime & Punishment Workshop
Panel discussion on Alan Brudner's Punishment and Freedom: A Liberal Theory of Penal Law (Oxford 2009) (with Shai Lavi (Tel Aviv), Hamish Stewart (UofT), Mariana Valverde (UofT), and Alan Brudner (UofT)): Book Symposium, 14:3 New Criminal Law Review (2011) (see the issue on JSTOR)

January 17, 2011
John LL. J. Edwards Memorial Lecture
Federico Varese (Oxford), "Current Challenges in the Study of Organized Crime"

January 12, 2011
Crime & Punishment Workshop
Martin Friedland (UofT), "The Canadian Criminal Code: Past, Present, Future?" (find out more)