Associate Dean, Graduate Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. Criminal law, policing, punishment, privatization, public law theory.
Toronto, Canada
Joined November 2013
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It was a lot of fun to think about the enormous utilitarian influence on criminal justice over several centuries. Thanks, Guillaume, for the invitation to contribute!
Very proud to announce the publication of the Research Handbook on Law and Utilitarianism I have had the pleasure to edit : e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/researc…
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Thanks to all participants @ the @MPICSL workshop „Criminalising Carelessness? Comparative & Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Criminal Liability for Inadvertent Negligence“ organized by Dr.Dr. Philipp-Alexander Hirsch & Johannes Stefan Weigel. Hope everyone had a safe trip home!
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#research #criminalisation #mpicsl @maxplanckpress
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Q: What specific legislation will you commit to to make child care affordable?
Trump: Well, I would do that and we're sitting down, you know, I was, somebody, we had Marco Rubio and my daughter, Ivanka… But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I'm talking about that because the child care is, child care couldn't, you know, there's something you have to have it in this country, you have to have it... I want to stay with child care… So we'll take care of it. Thank you
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Osgoode Hall Law School (@OsgoodeNews) in Toronto is currently advertising three academic positions (one Chair in Corporate Governance and two assistant and/or associate professors in Indigenous Law, Property Law and/or Health Law).
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Great news that David Owens, currently at KCL, has been elected to the Sekyra and White's Professorship of Moral Philosophy at Oxford. A fantastic appointment on both the moral and the legal philosophy fronts.
Allan was a thoughtful, erudite, witty, irreverent, kind, and irrepressibly *vital* man. It is a cliché, I know, but he truly was one of a kind. I enjoyed every minute I ever spent with him. I miss him.
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One takeaway from the presidential immunity case is that character matters more than ever before in choosing someone for that job. There aren't many checks other than the person's own internal moral compass.
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Traffic congestion in Toronto is hitting some kind of peak. Anyone who gets in a car to go anywhere in the core knows at this point the journey will be insufferable. Cars crawl along city streets, slower than walking - when they move at all.
What if there is a simple policy fix - a miracle of sorts...that can make this problem go away?
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One of the Institutes in the Max Planck Law network—@MPICSL—is accepting applications for a Barbara Huber Scholarship from exceptional academic researchers abroad. Opportunities are available in Criminology, Public Law, and Criminal Law. csl.mpg.de/en/barbara-huber-…
❗️Deadline 30 April⌛️ Barbara Huber Scholarship Program - open to outstanding academics from foreign research institutions for particularly innovative research projects in the subject areas of #criminology, #publicLaw, or #criminalLaw. @maxplancklaw csl.mpg.de/en/barbara-huber-…
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Do not miss this important conference of "The Collective: Women in Legal Philosophy", happening in June here in Oxford!
More info: law.ox.ac.uk/content/event/c…
📢 We will be hosting our 2nd Annual Conference on 22nd June 2024 at @BalliolOxford, University of Oxford, with the generous support of @OxfordLawFac.
After a rigorous peer-review process, we are thrilled to share this year's conference programme! 👩🏫
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Homicides are plummeting.
In all 10 cities with the most 2023 homicides—for which we have data—homicides are falling. The pandemic crime wave is crashing hard.
If these percentage decline numbers were percentage growth numbers, it would be the lede of every cable news show—>
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🌎☘️ 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗣𝗼 𝗟𝗮𝘄 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿 (𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗿) 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗝𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗽𝗿𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 ☘️🌎
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Natalie Zemon Davis, a historian whose imaginative and deeply researched investigations of the lives of marginalized figures profoundly influenced the discipline, died on Saturday at her home in Toronto. She was 94.
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Wow. A terrific opportunity in Law and Philosophy at a great school.
A new position for working with us as Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Legal Theory and the Philosophy of Law has just been published! Deadline: September 8.
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Today, the PM announced changes to the Ministry, appointing #UofTLaw alumni:
The Hon. @AnitaAnandMP named President of the Treasury Board
The Hon. Arif Virani (@viraniarif) named minister of justice and attorney general of Canada
#UofTalumni
Today, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced changes to the Ministry. Learn more: ow.ly/IR4m50PlTw7
