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In Progress

  • "New Legal Science: Toward Law as a Global Discipline" (download draft)
  • "Critical Analysis of Law: Interdisciplinarity, Contextuality, and the Future of Legal Studies" (download)
  • The Dual Penal State: Punishment Between Law and Police (access PiPP)
  • Criminal Law Web (interactive web resource)
  • "Ultima Ratio as Caveat Dominus: Legal Principles, Police Maxims, and the Critical Analysis of Law" (download draft)
    • “Ultima ratio como caveat dominus: princípios jurídicos, máximas de polícia e análise crítica do Direito,” Revista de Estudos Criminais, Porto Alegre, v. 18, n. 75, p. 7-40, 2019 (Lucas Minorelli & Marcelo Buttelli trans.) (Portuguese translation)
  • "American Penality Between Law and Police: Critical Analysis of Law and the New Police Science" (download draft)
  • "A Political Theory of Criminal Law: Autonomy and the Legitimacy of State Punishment" (download paper)
  • "The State as Victim: Treason and the Paradox of American Criminal Law" (download paper)
  • "The War on Terror and U.S. Criminal Law" (download paper)
  • "Legalizing Drug Criminal Law" (download paper)
  • "Dignity in Penal Law and Penal Police" (download paper)  

Recent 

  • Markus D. Dubber, Frank Pasquale & Sunit Das, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI (Oxford University Press 2020). Paperback edition 2021.

    • Chinese translation in preparation (Chinese Renmin University Press, Beijing).
    • Greek translation in preparation (Papazissis Publishers, Athens).
  • Markus D. Dubber, The Dual Penal State: The Crisis of Criminal Law in Comparative-Historical Perspective (Oxford University Press 2018). Paperback edition 2021.
    • German translation in preparation (Duncker & Humblot (Berlin)).
    • Spanish translation in preparation (Marcial Pons (Madrid)).
  • Markus D. Dubber & Christopher Tomlins, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Legal History (Oxford University Press 2018).
    • Chinese translation in preparation (Shanghai Joint Publishing Co. (Beijing)).
  • Heikki Pihlajamäki, Markus D. Dubber & Mark Godfrey, eds., The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History (Oxford University Press 2018).
    • Chinese translation in preparation (Shanghai People’s Publishing House).
  • "New Historical Jurisprudence: Legal History as Critical Analysis of Law," 2 CAL 1 (2015)
  • "Zur Geschichte und Theorie der Verbandsstrafbarkeit: Eine kritische Analyse aus rechtsvergleichender Sicht” (download draft) (for KritV)
  • "The Schizophrenic Jury and Other Palladia of Liberty: A Critical Historical Analysis" (download draft) (for Comparative Legal History)
  • "Histories of Crime and Criminal Justice and the Historical Analysis of Criminal Law" (download draft) (for Oxford Handbook of History of Crime and Criminal Justice)
  • Special Issue, New Historical Jurisprudence & Historical Analysis of Law, co-edited with Simon Stern, 2:1 CAL (2014)
  • An Introduction to the Model Penal Code (Oxford University Press, 2015)
    • Chinese translation in preparation (China University of Political Science and Law Press (Beijing)).
  • Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law (with Tatjana Hörnle) (Oxford University Press, 2014) (draft table of contents)
  • Foundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, 2014) (companion website)
  • Criminal Law: A Comparative Approach (with Tatjana Hörnle) (Oxford University Press, 2014) (chapter 1; mens rea)
    • Chinese translation in preparation (China Legal Publishing House).
  • Special Issue, Critical Analysis of Law and the New Interdisciplinarity, co-edited with Simon Stern, 1:1 CAL (2014)

Books & Symposium Issues

Articles & Book Chapters

  • "New Historical Jurisprudence: Legal History as Critical Analysis of Law," 2 CAL 1 (2015)
  • "Zur Geschichte und Theorie der Verbandsstrafbarkeit: Eine kritische Analyse aus rechtsvergleichender Sicht” (download draft) (for KritV)
  • "The Schizophrenic Jury and Other Palladia of Liberty: A Critical Historical Analysis" (download draft) (for Comparative Legal History)
  • "Histories of Crime and Criminal Justice and the Historical Analysis of Criminal Law" (download draft) (for Oxford Handbook of History of Crime and Criminal Justice)
  • "Paradigms of Penal Law," in The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law 1017 (above) (download draft)
  • "Grounding Criminal Law: Foundational Texts in Comparative-Historical Perspective," in Foundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law (above) (download draft) (preview)
  • "The Model Penal Code, Legal Process, and the Alegitimacy of American Penality," in Foundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law (above) (download draft)
  • "Criminal Justice in America: Constitutionalization Without Foundation," in The Constitution and the Future of Criminal Justice in America 27 (John T. Parry & L. Song Richardson, eds., Cambridge University Press 2013) (download paper) 
  • Symposium, Corporate Personhood and Criminal Liability, co-edited with Simon Stern, (2013) 16 New Criminal Law Review 203-308
  • "The Comparative History and Theory of Corporate Criminal Liability," (2013) 16 New Criminal Law Review 203. (download paper)
  • Focus Feature, Criminal Jurisdiction: Comparison, History, Theory, (2013) 63 University of Toronto Law Journal 193-309.
  • "Criminal Jurisdiction and Conceptions of Penality in Comparative Perspective," (2013) 63 University of Toronto Law Journal 247. (download paper)
  • "The Legality Principle in American and German Criminal Law: An Essay in Comparative Legal History," in Georges Martyn et al., eds., From the Judge’s Arbitrium to the Legality Principle: Legislation as a Source of Law in Criminal Trials 365 (Duncker & Humblot 2013). (download paper)
  • "Preventive Justice: The Search for Principle," in Andrew Ashworth & Lucia Zedner, eds., Prevention and the Limits of the Criminal Law 47 (Oxford University Press 2013). (download paper)
  • "The Comparative History and Theory of Corporate Criminal Liability," (2013) 16 New Criminal Law Review 203 (Symposium on Corporate Personhood and Criminal Liability). (download paper)
  • "Criminal Jurisdiction and Conceptions of Penality in Comparative Perspective," (2013) 63 University of Toronto Law Journal 247 (Focus Feature on Criminal Jurisdiction: Comparison, History, Theory). (download paper)
  • "The Legality Principle in American and German Criminal Law: An Essay in Comparative Legal History," in Georges Martyn et al., eds., From the Judge’s Arbitrium to the Legality Principle: Legislation as a Source of Law in Criminal Trials 365 (Duncker & Humblot 2013). (download paper)
  • "Preventive Justice: The Search for Principle," in Andrew Ashworth & Lucia Zedner, eds., Prevention and the Limits of the Criminal Law 47 (Oxford University Press 2013). (download paper) 
  • "The Story of Keller: The Irrelevance of the Legality Principle in American Criminal Law," in Criminal Law Stories (Donna Coker & Robert Weisberg, eds., Foundation Press 2012). (download paper)
  • "Putting the Treatise in Its Place," with Angela Fernandez, in Angela Fernandez & Markus D. Dubber, eds., Law Books in Action: Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2012). (download paper)
  • "Policing Morality: Constitutional Law and the Criminalization of Incest," (2011) 61 University of Toronto Law Journal 737 (Special Issue on Constitutionalism and the Criminal Law). (download paper) 
  • "Common Civility: The Culture of Alegality in International Criminal Law," (2011) 24 Leiden Journal of International Law 923. (download paper)   
  • "The American Law Institute's Model Penal Code and European Criminal Law," in André Klip, ed., Substantive Criminal Law of the European Union (Maklu, 2011). (download paper)
  • "Regulatory and Legal Aspects of Penality," in Austin Sarat, ed., Law as Punishment/Law as Regulation (Stanford University Press, 2011) 19. (download paper) 
  • "Foundations of State Punishment in Modern Liberal Democracies: Toward a Genealogy of American Criminal Law," in R.A. Duff & Stuart Green, eds., Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, 2011) 83. (download draft) 
  • "Criminal Law Between Public and Private Law," in R.A. Duff et al., eds., The Boundaries of the Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, 2011) 191. (download draft)
  • "Introduction: Comparative Criminal Law," in Kevin J. Heller & Markus D. Dubber, eds., The Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law (Stanford University Press, 2010) 1. (download paper) 
  • “Citizenship and Penal Law” (2010) 13 New Criminal Law Review 190. (download paper from SSRN)
  • “Die Anspruchslosigkeit des awissenschaftlichen Strafrechts" (2009) 121 Zeitschrift für die gesamte Strafrechtswissenschaft 977.
    • Korean translation (Misuk Son),“Hakmunsungeul Chuguhasi Annun Hyungbopeui Dansunsung,” 55 Dong-A Law Review 415 (2012).
  • “Criminal Police and Criminal Law in the Rechtsstaat” in Markus D. Dubber & Mariana Valverde, eds., Police and the Liberal State (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008) 92. (download paper)
  • “Policing the Rechtsstaat” with Mariana Valverde, in Markus D. Dubber & Mariana Valverde, eds., Police and the Liberal State (Stanford University Press, 2008) 1. (download paper) 
  • “Miscarriage of Justice as Misnomer” in Austin Sarat & Charles Ogletree, eds., Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice (NYU Press, 2008) 281. (download paper)
  • “‘An Extraordinarily Beautiful Document’: Jefferson’s Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments and the Challenge of Republican Punishment” in Markus D. Dubber & Lindsay Farmer, eds., Modern Histories of Crime and Punishment (Stanford University Press, 2007) 115. (download paper)
  • “Regarding Criminal Law Historically” in Markus D. Dubber & Lindsay Farmer, eds., Modern Histories of Crime and Punishment (Stanford University Press, 2007) 1. (download paper)
  • “Guerra y Pace: diritto penale del nemico e Police Power Model nel sistema statunitense” in Massimo Donini & Michele Papa, eds., Diritto penale del nemico: Un dibattito internazionale (Milan: Giuffrè, 2007) 323. 
  • “The American Model Penal Code: A Brief Overview,” with Paul H. Robinson (2007) 10 New Criminal Law Review 319. (download paper)
    • Chinese translation, "Introduction," in Chinese Translation of Model Penal Code: Official Draft and Explanatory Notes 1-22 (China Law Press, 2005).
    • Chinese translation, “An Introduction to the Model Penal Code” (2006) 2 Law Science 107-116.
    • Spanish translation, “El Código Penal Modelo estadounidense: una breve visión general”, Derecho Penal Contemporáneo - Revista Internacional, n.º 37, Legis Editores S.A., Bogotá, oct-nov 2011, pp. 65-96. 
  • “Criminal Law in Comparative Context” (2007) 56 Journal of Legal Education (Special Issue on Transnational Pespectives) 433. (download paper)
  • “Criminalizing Complicity: A Comparative Analysis” (2007) 5 Journal of International Criminal Justice (Special Issue on Individual Criminal Responsibility) 977. (download paper)
  • “Legitimating Penal Law” (2007) 28 Cardozo Law Review (Special Issue on Fletcher’s The Grammar of Criminal Law) 2597. (download paper)
  • “Comparative Criminal Law” in Mathias Reimann & Reinhard Zimmermann, eds., Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law (Oxford University Press, 2006) 1287. (download paper) 
    • Arabic translation, Mārkūs Dīrk Dābir, “al-qānūn al-jinā’ī al-muqāran,” in kitāb uksfūrd li-l-qānūn al-muqāran (Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law), vol. 2, 1885-1942 (Muhammad Sirāj trans., Beirut: Arab Network for Research and Publishing 2010).
    • Persian translation, “Hoghooghi Jenaayiyi Tatbighi,” in Taazehaayi Oloomi Jenaayi (Current Issues on Criminal Sciences) under the Supervision of Ali-Hossein Nadjafi Abrand-Abadi, Bonyaadi Hoghooghiyi Mizan 897-951 (Ali Shayan trans., Tehran: Mizan Law Foundation 2009).
  • “Guerra y Paz: Derecho penal del enemigo el modelo de Potestad Policial del Derecho penal estadounidense” in Cancio Meliá & Gómez-Jara Díez, eds., Derecho penal del enemigo: El discurso penal de la exclusion, vol. I (Buenos Aires/Madrid: BdF/Edisofer, 2006) 685.
  • “La integración del Derecho Penal sustantivo en Estados Unidos” in Hacio la unificación del derecho penal: Logros y desafíos de la armonización y homologación legislativa en México y en el mundo (México: Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Penales, 2006) 197. (download English version)
  • “The New Police Science and the Police Power Model of the Criminal Process” in Markus D. Dubber & Mariana Valverde, eds., The New Police Science: The Police Power in Domestic and International Governance (Stanford University Press, 2006) 107. (download paper)
  • “Perspectives on the Power and Science of Police,” with Mariana Valverde, in Markus D. Dubber & Mariana Valverde, eds., The New Police Science: The Police Power in Domestic and International Governance (Stanford University Press, 2006) 1. 
  • “Theories of Crime and Punishment in German Criminal Law” (2006) 53 American Journal of Comparative Law 679. (download paper)
  • “Making Sense of the Sense of Justice” (2005) 53 Buffalo Law Review 815. (download paper)
  • “Positive Generalprävention und Rechtsgutstheorie: Zwei zentrale Errungenschaften der deutschen Strafrechtswissenschaft aus amerikanischer Sicht” (2005) 117 Zeitschrift für die gesamte Strafrechtswissenschaft 485. 
    • Chinese translation, “Jiji De Yiban Yufang Yu Fayi Lilun: Yige Meiguoren Yanli De Deguo Xingfaxue De Liangge Zhongyao Chengjiu” (2007) 21 Criminal Law Review 443-466.
  • “‘The Power to Govern Men and Things’: Patriarchal Origins of the Police Power in American Law” (2005) 52 Buffalo Law Review 1277. (download paper)
  • “The Promise of German Criminal Law: A Science of Crime and Punishment” (2005) 6 German Law Journal 1049. (download paper)
  • “The Possession Paradigm: The Special Part and the Police Power Model of the Criminal Process” in R.A. Duff & Stuart Green, eds., Defining Crimes: Essays on the Criminal Law’s Special Part (Oxford University Press, 2005) 91. (view abstract)
  • “Strafrechtsdogmatik als Botanik” in Roland Hefendehl, ed., Empirische und dogmatische Fundamente, kriminalpolitischer Impetus (Cologne: Carl Heymanns Verlag, 2005) 245.
    • Korean translation (Misuk Son), “Sikmulhakuroseui Hyungbop Dogmatik,” 55 Dong-A Law Review 401 (2012).
  • “The Criminal Trial and the Legitimation of Punishment” in R.A. Duff et al., eds., The Trial on Trial (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2004) 85. (download paper)
  • “Toward a Constitutional Law of Crime and Punishment” (2004) 55 Hastings Law Journal 509. (download paper)
  • “Criminal Justice Process and the War on Crime” in Colin Sumner, ed., Blackwell’s Companion to Criminology (Blackwell Publishing, 2003) 49. 
  • “Polizei-Recht-Strafrecht” in Klaus Günther et al., eds., Festschrift für Klaus Lüderssen zum 70. Geburtstag (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2002) 179.
  • “Policing Possession: The War on Crime and the End of Criminal Law” (2002) 91 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 829. (download paper)
  • "The Historical Analysis of Criminal Codes" (2000) 18 Law & History Review 433. (download paper)
  • "Penal Panopticon: The Idea of a Modern Model Penal Code" (2000) 4 Buffalo Criminal Law Review 53. (download paper)
  • "Das Opfer im amerikanischen Strafrecht" in Die Stellung des Opfers im Strafrechtssystem: Neue Entwicklungen im deutschen und amerikanischen Recht (Carl Heymanss Verlag: Cologne, 2000) 15.
  • "On the Draft of a General Part for the Canadian Criminal Code" in Don Stuart et al., eds.,Towards A Clear and Just Criminal Law:  A Criminal Reports Forum (Toronto: Carswell, 1999) 156. (download paper)
  • "Reforming American Penal Law" (1999) 90 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 49. (download paper)
  • "The Victim in American Penal Law: A Systematic Overview" (1999) 3 Buffalo Criminal Law Review 3. (download paper)
    • Spanish translation, “La víctima en el Derecho penal estadounidense: Una sinópsis introductoria” in Luis Miguel Reyna Alfaro, ed., Victimología y Victimodogmática: Una aproximación al estudio de la víctima en el Derecho penal (Lima, Peru: Ara Editores, 2003). 
  • "Historical Analysis of Law" (1998) 16 Law & History Review 159. (download paper)
  • "The Right to Be Punished: Autonomy and Its Demise in Modern Penal Thought" (1998) 16 Law & History Review 113. (view abstract) (download paper)
  • "American Plea Bargains, German Lay Judges, and the Crisis of Criminal Procedure" (1997) 49 Stanford Law Review 547. (view abstract) (download paper)
  • "The Pain of Punishment" (1996) 44 Buffalo Law Review 545. (download paper)
  • "The German Jury and the Metaphysical Volk: From Romantic Idealism to Nazi Ideology" (1995) 43 American Journal of Comparative Law 227. (download paper)
  • "Recidivist Statutes as Arational Punishment" (1995) 43 Buffalo Law Review 689.
  • "Rediscovering Hegel's Theory of Crime and Punishment" (1994) 92 Michigan Law Review 1577. Reprinted in Hegel and Law (Michael Salter, ed., Ashgate/Dartmouth 2003). (download paper)
  • "Judicial Positivism and Hitler's Injustice" (1993) 93 Columbia Law Review 1807.
  • "Regulating the Tender Heart When the Axe is Ready to Strike" (1993) 41 Buffalo Law Review 85. Reprinted in Capital Punishment (Austin Sarat, ed., Ashgate/Dartmouth 2005.
  • "Prudence and Substance: How the Supreme Court's New Habeas Retroactivity Doctrine Mirrors and Affects Substantive Constitutional Law" (1992) 30 American Criminal Law Review 1. (Reprinted with permissions of the publisher, American Criminal Law Review (c) 1992) (download paper)
  • "Homosexual Privacy Rights Before the United States Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights: A Comparison of Methodologies" (1991) 27 Stanford Journal of International Law 189.
  • "The Unprincipled Punishment of Repeat Offenders: A Critique of California's Habitual Criminal Statute" (1990) 43 Stanford Law Review 193. Reprinted in Daily Journal Report, No. 91-4 at 23 (Apr. 26, 1991). (download paper)

Encyclopedias etc.

  •  “Jerome Hall” in Roger K. Newman, ed., Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009) 243.
  • “Victims’ Rights” in David S. Clark, ed., Encyclopedia of Law & Society, vol.3 (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2007) 1555.
  • "Criminal Law" in Kermit Hall et al., eds., The Oxford Companion to American Law (Oxford University Press, 2002) 185.
  • "Model Penal Code" in Kermit Hall et al., eds., The Oxford Companion to American Law (Oxford University Press, 2002) 566.
  • "Morals Offenses" in Kermit Hall et al., eds., The Oxford Companion to American Law (Oxford University Press, 2002) 567.
  • "Criminal Law Reform: Current Issues in the United States," in Joshua Dressler et al., eds., Encylopedia of Crime and Justice, 2d ed. (New York: Macmillan, 2001) 426.
  • "Cruel and Unusual Punishment" in Joshua Dressler et al., eds., Encylopedia of Crime and Justice, 2d ed. (New York: Macmillan, 2001) 494.

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