Criminal Law, Literature, and History

This international & interdisciplinary MCLR+ workshop brings together contributors to the forthcoming Modern Criminal Law Review special issue on Criminal Law, Literature, and History (guest edited by Simon Stern, University of Toronto). The issue will explore relations between criminal law, literature, and history, covering a wide geographical and historical range, on topics relating to both law and procedure.

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Special issue contributors include:

Simon Stern, Law & English (Guest Editor), University of Toronto

Geoffrey Baker, Literature, Yale-NUS College

Daria Bayer, Law, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Anna Schur, English, Keene State College “‘Higher Justice’ and Russian Law”

Abhinav Sekhri, Law, New Delhi “The ‘Lady’ Again: The Persecution, and Prosecution, of Lady Chatterley’s Lover in India”

Hannah Walser, NYU Law “Free Indirect Hearsay: Horsmanden’s Journal of the 1741 New York Conspiracy”

Elise Wang, English, Comparative Literature, & Linguistics, Cal State Fullerton, “‘Felon and Villain’: The Literary Inheritance of Felony”