Books by Markus D Dubber
El Estado Penal Dual La crisis del Derecho penal desde una perspectiva histórico-comparada, 2024
En El Estado Penal Dual. La crisis del Derecho penal desde una perspectiva histórico-comparada, M... more En El Estado Penal Dual. La crisis del Derecho penal desde una perspectiva histórico-comparada, Markus D. Dubber aborda uno de los problemas más acuciantes a los que se enfrentan quienes en la actualidad se dedican al estudio del Derecho penal: el uso desenfrenado, en el mejor de los casos descuidado, y en constante expansión del poder penal por parte de Estados aparentemente comprometidos con el proyecto jurídico-político de la democracia liberal occidental. Los regímenes penales de estos Estados operan en un amplio campo de violencia que no muestra una reflexión cuidadosa y encuentra pocos límites, y en el que se ha normalizado por completo la intromisión radical y prolongada en la autonomía de aquellas personas sobre las que habría de descansar la legitimidad del poder estatal.
El autor trata de mostrar que la crisis de la penalidad moderna es una crisis del propio proyecto liberal, y que la paradoja penal no es más que la formulación más aguda de la paradoja general del poder en un Estado liberal: la legitimidad de la soberanía estatal en nombre de la autonomía personal. Para captar la profundidad y el alcance de la crisis de la penalidad contemporánea en Estados ostensiblemente liberales (principalmente Estados Unidos y Alemania), El Estado Penal Dual deja atrás las habituales limitaciones temporales y provincianas, para, en su lugar, recurrir al análisis histórico y comparado. Este enfoque revela una distinción fundamental entre dos concepciones del poder penal que recorren la historia jurídico-política occidental: el Derecho penal y la policía penal. La primera, arraigada en la autonomía, la igualdad y el respeto interpersonal; la segunda, en la heteronomía, la jerarquía y el poder patriarcal. El análisis dual del Estado penal ilustra cómo esta distinción se manifiesta en la historia presente de diversos sistemas penales, desde el perverso abandono de la guerra contra el crimen estadounidense hasta la autosatisfacción ahistórica de la ciencia penal alemana.
Der doppelte Strafstaat: Die Krise des modernen Strafrechts in vergleichend-historischer Perspektive, 2022
Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der massiven, oft willkürlichen und ständig wachsenden Strafmach... more Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der massiven, oft willkürlichen und ständig wachsenden Strafmacht von Staaten, die sich vermeintlich dem rechtlich-politischen Projekt westlich-liberaler Demokratien verschrieben haben. Die normalisierte Ausübung von Strafgewalt in den Strafsystemen dieser aufgeklärt-modernen Staaten objektiviert tagtäglich genau die Personen, auf deren Autonomie als Rechtssubjekte die Legitimation staatlicher Macht insgesamt beruhen soll.
Um das volle Ausmaß der Krise des Strafrechts in scheinbar liberalen Staaten zu verstehen, wendet sich der Autor in diesem Buch der historischen und vergleichenden Analyse zu. Nur so können wir die Ursprünge dieser Krise in den Ursprüngen des liberalen rechtlich-politischen Projekts selbst erkennen und gleichzeitig sehen, wie sie sich in verschiedenen, an diesem Projekt beteiligten Staaten unterschiedlich manifestiert hat, vom US-amerikanischen »War on Crime« bis zur ahistorischen Selbstgefälligkeit der deutschen Strafrechtswissenschaft. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Alexander Mayr und Sascha Ziemann.
The idea for this handbook arose in late 2017, with the working title Handbook of Ethics of AI in... more The idea for this handbook arose in late 2017, with the working title Handbook of Ethics of AI in Context. By the time solicitations went out to potential contributors in the summer of 2018, its title had been streamlined to Handbook of Ethics of AI. Its essentially contextual approach, however, remained unchanged: it is a broadly conceived and framed interdisciplinary and international collection, designed to capture and shape much-needed reflection on normative frameworks for the production, application, and use of artificial intelligence in diverse spheres of individual, commercial, social, and public life.
The Dual Penal State addresses one of today's most pressing social and political issues: the ramp... more The Dual Penal State addresses one of today's most pressing social and political issues: the rampant, at best haphazard, and ever-expanding use of penal power by states ostensibly committed to the enlightenment-based legal-political project of Western liberal democracy. Penal regimes in these states operate in a wide field of ill-considered and barely constrained violence where radical and prolonged interference with citizens, upon whose autonomy the legitimacy of state power supposedly rests, has been utterly normalized. At its heart, the crisis of modern penality is a crisis of the liberal project itself and the penal paradox is the sharpest formulation of the general paradox of power in a liberal state: the legitimacy of state sovereignty in the name of personal autonomy. To capture the depth and range of the crisis of contemporary penality in ostensibly liberal states, The Dual Penal State adopts a fresh approach. It uses historical and comparative analysis to reveal the fundamental distinction between two conceptions of penal power - penal law and penal police - that runs through Western legal-political history: one rooted in autonomy, equality, and interpersonal respect, and the other in heteronomy, hierarchy, and patriarchal power. This dual penal state analysis illuminates how the law/police distinction manifests itself in various penal systems, from the American war on crime to the ahistorical methods of German criminal law science.
The Dual Penal State addresses one of today's most pressing social and political issues: the ramp... more The Dual Penal State addresses one of today's most pressing social and political issues: the rampant, at best haphazard, and ever-expanding use of penal power by states ostensibly committed to the enlightenment-based legal-political project of Western liberal democracy. Penal regimes in these states operate in a wide field of ill-considered and barely constrained violence where radical and prolonged interference with citizens, upon whose autonomy the legitimacy of state power supposedly rests, has been utterly normalized. At its heart, the crisis of modern penality is a crisis of the liberal project itself and the penal paradox is the sharpest formulation of the general paradox of power in a liberal state: the legitimacy of state sovereignty in the name of personal autonomy.
To capture the depth and range of the crisis of contemporary penality in ostensibly liberal states, The Dual Penal State adopts a fresh approach. It uses historical and comparative analysis to reveal the fundamental distinction between two conceptions of penal power - penal law and penal police - that runs through Western legal-political history: one rooted in autonomy, equality, and interpersonal respect, and the other in heteronomy, hierarchy, and patriarchal power. This dual penal state analysis illuminates how the law/police distinction manifests itself in various penal systems, from the American war on crime to the ahistorical methods of German criminal law science.
Reflecting the continued transformation of criminal law into a global discipline, provides schola... more Reflecting the continued transformation of criminal law into a global discipline, provides scholars with a comprehensive international resource, a common point of entry into cutting edge contemporary research and a snapshot of the state and scope of the field. To this end, the Handbook takes a broad approach to its subject matter, disciplinarily, geographically, and systematically. Its contributors include current and future research leaders representing a variety of legal systems, methodologies, areas of expertise, and research agendas.
Criminal Law: A Comparative Approach presents a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the subs... more Criminal Law: A Comparative Approach presents a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the substantive criminal law of two major jurisdictions: the United States and Germany.
Presupposing no familiarity with either U.S. or German criminal law, the book will provide criminal law scholars and students with a rich comparative understanding of criminal law's foundations and central doctrines. All foreign-language sources have been translated into English; cases and materials are accompanied by heavily cross-referenced introductions and notes that place them within the framework of each country's criminal law system and highlight issues ripe for comparative analysis.
Divided into three parts, the book covers foundational issues - such as constitutional limits on the criminal law - before tackling the major features of the general part of the criminal law and a selection of offences in the special part. Throughout, readers are exposed to alternative approaches to familiar problems in criminal law, and as a result will have a chance to see a given country's criminal law doctrine, on specific issues and in general, from the critical distance of comparative analysis.
Features essays in which scholars from various countries and legal systems engage critically with... more Features essays in which scholars from various countries and legal systems engage critically with formative texts in criminal legal thought since Hobbes.
Updated edition of this companion to the American Model Penal Code that illustrates the Code's po... more Updated edition of this companion to the American Model Penal Code that illustrates the Code's potential as a key to the domestic and comparative study of American criminal law.
Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law
This essay provides an introductory overview of the project of comparative criminal law in genera... more This essay provides an introductory overview of the project of comparative criminal law in general and of the contributions to the Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law in particular, highlighting common themes, conceptual frameworks, and opportunities for further comparative analysis. [Hard copy at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1723106]
Papers (English) by Markus D Dubber
An introduction to comparative criminal law, with discussion of its histories and functions and o... more An introduction to comparative criminal law, with discussion of its histories and functions and of selected topics.
Legal history is having a methodological moment. So is law (and, as it turns out, history as well... more Legal history is having a methodological moment. So is law (and, as it turns out, history as well). And not just in one country or legal system but across the common law/civil law divide. In this chapter I try to capture some aspects of this methodological moment—or moments— and then to add some reflections of my own that locate legal history within the enterprise of legal scholarship. More specifically, I will outline an approach to legal history that regards historical analysis as one mode of critical analysis of law, along with other modes of " interdisciplinary " analysis (economical, philosophical, sociological, literary, etc.) and " doctrinal " analysis. In this way, legal history plays a key role in the general effort to move beyond the long-standing and rhetorically useful, but ultimately unproductive, distinction between " modern " and " traditional " legal scholarship, and that between " common law " and " civil law " scholarship besides.
This chapter is about a way of thinking about criminal process, with bits and pieces of criminal ... more This chapter is about a way of thinking about criminal process, with bits and pieces of criminal process making an appearance for illustrative purposes. Actually, it's about two ways of thinking about criminal process, from parallel perspectives that correspond to two modes of state governance, law and police, characteristic of the law state (Rechtsstaat) and the police state (Polizeistaat), respectively. Using comparative-historical analysis, this chapter, locates the study of criminal process within the two-track project of critical analysis of penal power in the modern liberal state as penal law and penal police: the dual penal state. Illustrations include lay participation, plea bargaining, the legality principle, habeas corpus, and possession offenses, among others.
Oxford Handbook of European Legal History
This paper has two parts. The first part reflects on various traditional approaches to the histor... more This paper has two parts. The first part reflects on various traditional approaches to the historical study of European criminal law in the nineteenth and twentieth century. The second part lays out an alternative, two-track, conception of "modern" European criminal legal history. It does this by taking an upside-down - or outside-in - view of the subject, by focusing on an understudied, but fascinating, project of European criminal law: the invention, implementation, and evolution of colonial criminal law.
A comparative and historical analysis of the so-called ultima ratio principle reveals that, despi... more A comparative and historical analysis of the so-called ultima ratio principle reveals that, despite its Latinate veneer, it is neither ancient nor universal, but a recent addition to the German criminal law canon. Upon further inquiry, ultima ratio also turns out to be ill-defined, undermotivated, and toothless, a fundamental legal principle and distinctive feature of criminal law honored in its ubiquitous breach. In the end, the iron legal principle of ultima ratio may appear more like the flexible police maxim of caveat dominus. Its frequent invocation suggests the need to reconceive legal science as a critical analysis of law in general, and of law's supposed principles in particular.
This essay reflects on the relationship between the history of crime, the history of criminal jus... more This essay reflects on the relationship between the history of crime, the history of criminal justice, and the history of criminal law. It suggests an account of the historical analysis of criminal law that locates it within the general project of critical analysis of law (CAL).
The historiography of the jury is interestingly schizophrenic, even paradoxical. On one side is t... more The historiography of the jury is interestingly schizophrenic, even paradoxical. On one side is the once traditional, and still popular, history of the jury as palladium of liberty. On the other side is the once revisionist, but now widely accepted, account of the jury's origin as instrument of oppression. On one side is the jury as English, local, indigenous, democratic; on the other is the jury as French, central, foreign, autocratic. This paper reflects on this apparent paradox, regarding it as neither sui generis nor in need of resolution. Instead, from the longue durée comparative-historical perspective of New Historical Jurisprudence, the schizophrenic history of the jury and of other palladia of liberty, notably habeas corpus, can be seen to reflect the fundamental and long-standing tension between two modes of governance, law and police, rooted in the distinction between autonomy and heteronomy that has shaped the Western legal-political project since classical Athens. The historiography of the jury is interestingly schizophrenic, even paradoxical. On one side is the once traditional, and still popular, history of the jury as palladium of liberty. On the other side is the once revisionist, but now widely accepted, account of the jury's origin as instrument of oppression. On one side is the jury as English, local, indigenous, democratic; on the other is the jury as French, central, foreign, autocratic. This paper reflects on this apparent paradox, regarding it as neither sui generis nor in need of resolution. Instead, from the longue durée comparative-historical perspective of New Historical Jurisprudence, the schizophrenic history of the jury and of other palladia of liberty, notably habeas corpus, can be seen to reflect the fundamental and long-standing tension between two modes of governance, law and police, rooted in the distinction between autonomy and heteronomy that has shaped the Western legal-political project since classical Athens.
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Books by Markus D Dubber
El autor trata de mostrar que la crisis de la penalidad moderna es una crisis del propio proyecto liberal, y que la paradoja penal no es más que la formulación más aguda de la paradoja general del poder en un Estado liberal: la legitimidad de la soberanía estatal en nombre de la autonomía personal. Para captar la profundidad y el alcance de la crisis de la penalidad contemporánea en Estados ostensiblemente liberales (principalmente Estados Unidos y Alemania), El Estado Penal Dual deja atrás las habituales limitaciones temporales y provincianas, para, en su lugar, recurrir al análisis histórico y comparado. Este enfoque revela una distinción fundamental entre dos concepciones del poder penal que recorren la historia jurídico-política occidental: el Derecho penal y la policía penal. La primera, arraigada en la autonomía, la igualdad y el respeto interpersonal; la segunda, en la heteronomía, la jerarquía y el poder patriarcal. El análisis dual del Estado penal ilustra cómo esta distinción se manifiesta en la historia presente de diversos sistemas penales, desde el perverso abandono de la guerra contra el crimen estadounidense hasta la autosatisfacción ahistórica de la ciencia penal alemana.
Um das volle Ausmaß der Krise des Strafrechts in scheinbar liberalen Staaten zu verstehen, wendet sich der Autor in diesem Buch der historischen und vergleichenden Analyse zu. Nur so können wir die Ursprünge dieser Krise in den Ursprüngen des liberalen rechtlich-politischen Projekts selbst erkennen und gleichzeitig sehen, wie sie sich in verschiedenen, an diesem Projekt beteiligten Staaten unterschiedlich manifestiert hat, vom US-amerikanischen »War on Crime« bis zur ahistorischen Selbstgefälligkeit der deutschen Strafrechtswissenschaft. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Alexander Mayr und Sascha Ziemann.
To capture the depth and range of the crisis of contemporary penality in ostensibly liberal states, The Dual Penal State adopts a fresh approach. It uses historical and comparative analysis to reveal the fundamental distinction between two conceptions of penal power - penal law and penal police - that runs through Western legal-political history: one rooted in autonomy, equality, and interpersonal respect, and the other in heteronomy, hierarchy, and patriarchal power. This dual penal state analysis illuminates how the law/police distinction manifests itself in various penal systems, from the American war on crime to the ahistorical methods of German criminal law science.
Presupposing no familiarity with either U.S. or German criminal law, the book will provide criminal law scholars and students with a rich comparative understanding of criminal law's foundations and central doctrines. All foreign-language sources have been translated into English; cases and materials are accompanied by heavily cross-referenced introductions and notes that place them within the framework of each country's criminal law system and highlight issues ripe for comparative analysis.
Divided into three parts, the book covers foundational issues - such as constitutional limits on the criminal law - before tackling the major features of the general part of the criminal law and a selection of offences in the special part. Throughout, readers are exposed to alternative approaches to familiar problems in criminal law, and as a result will have a chance to see a given country's criminal law doctrine, on specific issues and in general, from the critical distance of comparative analysis.
Papers (English) by Markus D Dubber
El autor trata de mostrar que la crisis de la penalidad moderna es una crisis del propio proyecto liberal, y que la paradoja penal no es más que la formulación más aguda de la paradoja general del poder en un Estado liberal: la legitimidad de la soberanía estatal en nombre de la autonomía personal. Para captar la profundidad y el alcance de la crisis de la penalidad contemporánea en Estados ostensiblemente liberales (principalmente Estados Unidos y Alemania), El Estado Penal Dual deja atrás las habituales limitaciones temporales y provincianas, para, en su lugar, recurrir al análisis histórico y comparado. Este enfoque revela una distinción fundamental entre dos concepciones del poder penal que recorren la historia jurídico-política occidental: el Derecho penal y la policía penal. La primera, arraigada en la autonomía, la igualdad y el respeto interpersonal; la segunda, en la heteronomía, la jerarquía y el poder patriarcal. El análisis dual del Estado penal ilustra cómo esta distinción se manifiesta en la historia presente de diversos sistemas penales, desde el perverso abandono de la guerra contra el crimen estadounidense hasta la autosatisfacción ahistórica de la ciencia penal alemana.
Um das volle Ausmaß der Krise des Strafrechts in scheinbar liberalen Staaten zu verstehen, wendet sich der Autor in diesem Buch der historischen und vergleichenden Analyse zu. Nur so können wir die Ursprünge dieser Krise in den Ursprüngen des liberalen rechtlich-politischen Projekts selbst erkennen und gleichzeitig sehen, wie sie sich in verschiedenen, an diesem Projekt beteiligten Staaten unterschiedlich manifestiert hat, vom US-amerikanischen »War on Crime« bis zur ahistorischen Selbstgefälligkeit der deutschen Strafrechtswissenschaft. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Alexander Mayr und Sascha Ziemann.
To capture the depth and range of the crisis of contemporary penality in ostensibly liberal states, The Dual Penal State adopts a fresh approach. It uses historical and comparative analysis to reveal the fundamental distinction between two conceptions of penal power - penal law and penal police - that runs through Western legal-political history: one rooted in autonomy, equality, and interpersonal respect, and the other in heteronomy, hierarchy, and patriarchal power. This dual penal state analysis illuminates how the law/police distinction manifests itself in various penal systems, from the American war on crime to the ahistorical methods of German criminal law science.
Presupposing no familiarity with either U.S. or German criminal law, the book will provide criminal law scholars and students with a rich comparative understanding of criminal law's foundations and central doctrines. All foreign-language sources have been translated into English; cases and materials are accompanied by heavily cross-referenced introductions and notes that place them within the framework of each country's criminal law system and highlight issues ripe for comparative analysis.
Divided into three parts, the book covers foundational issues - such as constitutional limits on the criminal law - before tackling the major features of the general part of the criminal law and a selection of offences in the special part. Throughout, readers are exposed to alternative approaches to familiar problems in criminal law, and as a result will have a chance to see a given country's criminal law doctrine, on specific issues and in general, from the critical distance of comparative analysis.
[Hard copy at http://ssrn.com/abstract=529522]
These aspects of German criminal law are of particular interest to Anglo-American criminal lawyers because they are widely considered to be among the signal accomplishments of German criminal law science and tackle issues that so far have escaped a satisfactory treatment in Anglo-American criminal law.
[Hard copy at http://ssrn.com/abstract=829226]
[Hard copy at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2375250]
[Hard copy at http://ssrn.com/abstract=661165]
CAL embraces interdisciplinarity, reconceived and contextualized. It insists on the autonomy of law as a discipline, while at the same time regarding law as one discipline among others, and the interdisciplinarity of legal studies as a reflection of interdisciplinarity in all modes of scholarship and teaching.
[Hard copy at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2385656]
To assemble a serviceable account of the sense of justice requires leaving the comfortable confines of American jurisprudence, which has contributed precious little to this subject, and instead taking an interdisciplinary approach. Moral psychology, for one, has explored notions of moral sentiment and empathy for centuries. Political theory, too, deserves our attention, mainly because Rawls assigned the sense of justice a pivotal, though generally underappreciated, role in his theory of justice. Even linguistics will get a closer look because of the intriguing parallels between a sense of justice and a sense of language, and of moral and linguistic competence.
In the end, the sense of justice emerges as a general normative competence consisting of a bundle of cognitive and volitional capacities. Understood in this way, the sense of justice is nothing less than a precondition of just cooperation and stability in a modern world void of substantive commonalities.
[Hard copy at http://ssrn.com/abstract=830586]
"The Power to Govern Men and Things" argues that the essential limitlessness of the police power reflects its origins in the householder's patriarchal authority over his household, including "men" (animate household resources such as wives, children, servants, slaves, and animals) and "things" (inanimate resources such as buildings, tools, and land). In the words of Blackstone's much-quoted definition, the power to police is the power of the "pater patriae" to maintain "the domestic order of the kingdom: whereby the individuals of the state, like members of a well-governed family, are bound to conform their general behaviour to the rules of propriety, good neighbourhood, and good manners: and to be decent, industrious, and inoffensive in their respective stations."
[Hard copy at http://ssrn.com/abstract=629882]
[Hard copy at https://goo.gl/Th7tUN]