Markus D Dubber is Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. Dubber's scholarship has focused on theoretical, comparative, and historical aspects of criminal law. His publications include Criminal Law: A Comparative Approach (co-authored with Tatjana Hörnle, 2014), Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law (co-edited with Kevin Heller, 2010), Modern Histories of Crime and Punishment (co-edited with Lindsay Farmer, 2007), The New Police Science: The Police Power in Domestic and International Governance (co-edited with Mariana Valverde, 2006), The Police Power: Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government (2005), and Victims in the War on Crime: The Use and Abuse of Victims' Rights (2002).

Foundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law presents essays in which scholars from various countries and legal systems engage critically with formative texts in criminal legal thought since Hobbes. It examines the emergence of a transnational canon of criminal law by documenting its intellectual and disciplinary history and provides a snapshot of contemporary work on criminal law within that historical and comparative context.

Criminal law discourse has become, and will continue to become, more international and comparative, and in this sense global: the long-standing parochialism of criminal law scholarship and doctrine is giving way to a broad exploration of the foundations of modern criminal law. The present book advances this promising scholarly and doctrinal project by making available key texts, including several not previously available in English translation, from the common law and civil law traditions, accompanied by contributions from leading representatives of both systems.