This volume contributes to the emergence of a transnational canon of criminal law by critically engaging with formative texts in criminal legal thought since Hobbes.

• Introduction. Grounding Criminal Law: Foundational Texts in Comparative-Historical Perspective


• 1.: Alice Ristroph: Hobbes on "Diffidence" and the Criminal Law


• 2.: Bernard E Harcourt: Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments:A Mirror on the History of the Foundations of Modern Criminal Law


• 3.: Simon Stern: Blackstone's Criminal Law: Common-Law Harmonization and Legislative Reform


• 4.: Guyora Binder: Foundations of the Legislative Panopticon: Bentham's Principles of Morals and Legislation


• 5.: Meir Dan-Cohen: Dignity, Crime, and Punishment: A Kantian Perspective


• 6.: Tatjana Hörnle: PJA von Feuerbach and his Textbook of the Common Penal Law


• 7.: Alan Brudner: The Contraction of Crime in Hegel's Rechtsphilosophie


• 8.: Bernard E Harcourt: Mill's On Liberty and the Modern "Harm to Others" Principle


• 9.: Marc O DeGirolami: James Fitzjames Stephen: The Punishment Jurist


• 10.: Peter Ramsay: Pashukanis and Public Protection


• 11.: Mireille Hildebrandt: Radbruch on the Origins of the Criminal Law: Punitive Interventions before Sovereignty


• 12.: Markus D Dubber: The Model Penal Code, Legal Process, and the Alegitimacy of American Penality


• 13.: Lindsay Farmer: The Modest Ambition of Glanville Williams


• 14.: Malcolm Thorburn: The Radical Orthodoxy of Hart's Punishment and Responsibility


• 15.: Alon Harel: Criminal Law as an Efficiency-Enhancing Device: The Contribution of Gary Becker


• 16.: Pat O'Malley and Mariana Valverde: Foucault, Criminal Law, and the Governmentalization of the State


• 17.: Vidar Halvorsen: Nils Christie: "Conflicts as Property"


• 18.: Daniel Ohana: Günther Jakobs's Feindstrafrecht: A Dispassionate Account


• Appendix A.: Paul Johann Anselm Feuerbach: Textbook of the Common Penal Law in Force in Germany


• Appendix B.: Johann Michael Franz Birnbaum: Concerning the Need for a Right Violation in the Concept of a Crime, having particular Regard to the Concept of an Affront to Honour


• Appendix C.: Gustav Radbruch: The Origin of Criminal Law in the Status of the Unfree


• Appendix D.: Günther Jakobs: On the Theory of Enemy Criminal Law

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).