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In our next post, Sorcha Mc Cormack, @leedsbeckett.bsky.social argues that we are defined, in part, by our vulnerability to circumstances, and each other. Our autonomy-focused law of sexual consent should reflect this common vulnerability. Coming this Friday! criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com

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In our next post, @marthe.bsky.social (Max Planck, Freiburg) argues that the wrongfulness of image-based sexual abuse lies in its infringement of personhood, and this infringement is better captured using a relational definition of persons. Coming this Friday: criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com

No post today, but we wanted to draw your attention to the opportunity to apply for the Barbara Huber Scholarship at the Max Planck Institute for Crime, Security and Law Freiburg. Details here: csl.mpg.de/en/barbara-h...

Interview of Prof. Andew Simester by Assoc. Prof. Mark Dsouza – The Art of Crime Professor Andrew Simester is Dean of National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Law, and Amaladass […]

Last autumn, I interviewed Andrew Simester (Dean, NUS Law, and leading Criminal Law academic) for The Art of Crime magazine. Here it is, out in print and free to read for all: theartofcrime.gr/interview-of...

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This Friday, @chloejskennedy.bsky.social outlines the argument in her recent book, Inducing Intimacy: we should consult the genealogy of legal responses to deceptively induced sexual/romantic relationships when evaluating how the law regulates such conduct: criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com

The collection on 'Rights in Criminal Law' edited by @phirsch.bsky.social and Elias Moser is now out and free to download at www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do.... In my contribution, Ch 7, I argue that victims' rights should make no difference to whether someone can plead a justification.

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This Friday, @adam-kolber.bsky.social argues: in our current non-ideal world, carceral punishment is better addressed through pure consequentialism (ie denying the value of deserved punishment) than standard retributivism (where desert justifies punishment): criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com

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