Markus Dubber

Markus D. Dubber, B.A. (Harvard) 1988, J.D. (Stanford) 1991, is Professor of Law & Criminology and Director of the University of Toronto's interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics and its Ethics of AI Lab. Much of Markus's scholarship has focused on theoretical, comparative, and historical aspects of criminal law. He has published, as author or editor, over twenty books and eighty papers; his work has appeared in English and German, and has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Italian, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, and Spanish (ssrn | Google Scholar). His publications include The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI (with Frank Pasquale & Sunit Das) (2020); The Dual Penal State: The Crisis of Criminal Law in Comparative-Historical Perspective (2018); The Oxford Handbook of Legal History (with Christopher Tomlins) (2018); The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History (with Heikki Pihlajamäki & Mark Godfrey) (2018); Criminal Law: A Comparative Approach (with Tatjana Hörnle) (2014); The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law (with Tatjana Hörnle) (2014); Foundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law (2014); The Sense of Justice: Empathy in Law and Punishment (2006); The New Police Science: The Police Power in Domestic and International Governance (with Mariana Valverde) (2006); The Police Power: Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government (2005); and Victims in the War on Crime (2002). For many years, Markus taught at SUNY Buffalo, where he launched and led the Buffalo Criminal Law Center and the Buffalo Criminal Law Review (now New Criminal Law Review). He is founding editor-in-chief of Ethics in Context (Oxford), Oxford Handbooks Online (Law), Critical Perspectives on Law and Crime (Stanford), the online open-access journal Critical Analysis of Law (with Simon Stern), and C4eJournal: Perspectives on Ethics. 

Projects & Resources

Centre for Ethics
     Events
     C4eJournal: Perspectives on Ethics
     Courses
Ethics of AI in Context
     Ethics of AI Lab
     Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI: Online Companion
CAL
     CAL Lab: Critical Analysis of Law @ UofT
     CAL: An International & Interdisciplinary Law Review
     CAL for Students: A Tool Kit & Read-in Group
     CAL Flix: Student View-ins
Criminal Law
     Criminal Law: A Comparative Approach
     Foundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law (+ companion website)
     An Introduction to the Model Penal Code
     Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law
     Criminal Law Web: Canadian Criminal Law in Context
     Criminal Law @ UofT
     Criminal Law LLM Program
     Criminal Law Sciences Club
     The Dual Penal State (PiPP)
UofT
     Law @ UofT: Law as a Great University Subject 
     Infinite Summer @ UofT Law
   

Course Materials

Criminal Law
     eCasebook
Administrative Law
     Points of Power
Critical Perspectives on Law
     Readings
Legal Process
     Annotated Outline & Syllabus