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1. There is a way of thinking about law that contemporary normative theorists on criminalization and legal punishment are particularly anxious about, and that way is to conceive law as involving legal coercion in the manner of threats. This way of conceiving law is unsurprising, especially when we look at criminal law; it prescribes requirements of conduct (e.g. do not murder) for which we are ...

[Although the issue of cumulative offences (concursus delictorum) is well developed in various national criminal justice systems, concursus delictorium is only at the formative stages of its development in international criminal law. Through an examination of the jurisprudence of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Tribunal for Rwanda, this article highlig...

OBJECTIVES To review the extant literature on HIV criminal laws, and to determine the impact of these laws on public health practice. METHODS The available research on this topic was obtained and reviewed. RESULTS The extant literature addressed three main topics: people's awareness of HIV criminal laws; people's perceptions of HIV criminal laws; and the potential effects of HIV criminal la...

defining the scope of criminal law and legitimated level ofintervention through criminal law over the rights and freedom ofcitizens as the most serious kind of such intervention, is a complicatedand difficult matter. the principle of criminal law as the last and theleast resort as a basic principle of this knowledge, technique andinstrument of social control, as emphasizes upon the destructiver...

In a galaxy far, far away—a typical law school classroom—the quality of discussion of criminal codes and doctrines might fairly be described as in disastrous condition. Indeed, it is probably overly generous to characterize the typical law school criminal law course as being about modern criminal codes and doctrines at all, at least if one assumes that, at a minimum, such a course should review...

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In Movies on Trial [1], I examine ways in which popular legal culture (especially television, fiction, and film) helps shape American attitudes toward different aspects of legal process and legal system. Among the topics I consider are criminal law, tort law, international law, constitutional law, and comparative law. I am now writing a second book on this subject, Movies on Appeal, and I will ...