Mark Dsouza

How should legal education respond to AI? Together with 11 UCL Laws colleagues, this paper is our vision for the sector. It's rooted in academic integrity, fundamental competences, and concerns around impacts on learning to learn and intellectual risk taking. (🧵)

discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

Legal Philosophy Workshop The Legal Philosophy Workshop (LPW) is an annual conference designed to foster reflection on the nature of law and the philosophical issues underlying its different areas. Our aim is to promote work t...

The #LPW2025 program is live!

Speakers include @shbarclay.bsky.social, Anna Lukina, Julian Davis, Suzanne Bloks, @apoama.bsky.social, @markedsouza1.bsky.social, and Tarek Yusari.

@uvalawschool.bsky.social

🔗 Check the program and register: sites.google.com/site/legalph...

A little snippet into my upcoming monograph with Routledge...

This is now live at criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/v...

This is imminent!

Criminal Justice Theory Blog Accessible, Interesting, Excellent

In our next post, Sorcha Mc Cormack, @leedsbeckett.bsky.social argues that we are defined, in part, by our vulnerability to circumstances, and each other. Our autonomy-focused law of sexual consent should reflect this common vulnerability. Coming this Friday! criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com

And here it is: criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/i... Comments and reflections most welcome! Thanks to @marthe.bsky.social!

Criminal Justice Theory Blog Accessible, Interesting, Excellent

In our next post, @marthe.bsky.social (Max Planck, Freiburg) argues that the wrongfulness of image-based sexual abuse lies in its infringement of personhood, and this infringement is better captured using a relational definition of persons. Coming this Friday: criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com

🚨BOOK LAUNCH - The Criminal Justice Centre at QMUL is delighted to host the launch of @chloekennedy.bsky.social 's Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law with an amazing panel incl @markedsouza1.bsky.social

📍QMUL (hybrid)
🗓️ Wed 9 April at 6 pm

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Interview of Prof. Andew Simester by Assoc. Prof. Mark Dsouza – The Art of Crime Professor Andrew Simester is Dean of National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Law, and Amaladass […]

Last autumn, I interviewed Andrew Simester (Dean, NUS Law, and leading Criminal Law academic) for The Art of Crime magazine. Here it is, out in print and free to read for all: theartofcrime.gr/interview-of...

Rights in Criminal Law This open access collection of 17 original essays is the first volume to provide an in-depth exploration of the potential of a rights-based approach to criminal…

Finally!

📢Our volume "Rights in Criminal Law" is out!📢

17 essays on a rights-based approach to criminal law, featuring @malcolmthorburn.bsky.social A. Duff @markedsouza1.bsky.social T. Hörnle @michellecoleman.bsky.social &more

Best of all 🎉 it's OPEN ACCESS! 👉 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rights-in...

This is imminent!

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This Friday, @chloejskennedy.bsky.social outlines the argument in her recent book, Inducing Intimacy: we should consult the genealogy of legal responses to deceptively induced sexual/romantic relationships when evaluating how the law regulates such conduct: criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com

The collection on 'Rights in Criminal Law' edited by @phirsch.bsky.social and Elias Moser is now out and free to download at www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do.... In my contribution, Ch 7, I argue that victims' rights should make no difference to whether someone can plead a justification.

And here is @adam-kolber.bsky.social's post: criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2025/01/31/k...

This is imminent!

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This Friday, @adam-kolber.bsky.social argues: in our current non-ideal world, carceral punishment is better addressed through pure consequentialism (ie denying the value of deserved punishment) than standard retributivism (where desert justifies punishment): criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com

And here it is:
@should-b-workin.bsky.social's post on whether actions can manifest traits or attitudes that are not actually present: criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/c... Enjoy!

Criminal Justice Theory Blog Accessible, Interesting, Excellent

In our next post, @should-b-workin.bsky.social argues that, to a limited extent, the criminal law can fairly take D’s actions to manifest traits/attitudes even when we know that D does not actually possess them! Under what conditions? Find out this Friday on criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com!

For some reason, links aren't working on Bluesky today, but there's a link to the general blog in the quoted post, and Valerij's blogpost is the first one.

New post by Valerij Zisman (MPI for Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg) now live on the Criminal Justice Theory Blog. Zisman addresses the relevance of empirical research into psychology on punishment theory. Comments/Qs welcome!

This will be out imminently.

Criminal Justice Theory Blog Accessible, Interesting, Excellent

In our next post on criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com, coming Friday, Valerij Zisman considers the use of empirical research in human psychology on punishment theory. He say that it can be an important yardstick for ethical and legal theories, but we must use it more carefully. Watch for that!

Wow, that workshop looks really interesting! And fantastic that it was livestreamed, and so there is already a recording of it up on Youtube! Thanks for pointing me towards this treasure trove!

And... here's my post on why I don't think AI entities can ever be treated as responsible agents anything that is recognisably a system of criminal laws. criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2024/11/29/w... Comments/reactions welcome!

One of my favourite online spaces to find interesting new work. If you’re at all interested in criminal law/justice theory, check it out (and maybe give @dinesson.bsky.social and myself’s post a peek while you’re at it🤓)

In our next post on criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com, coming tomorrow, I argue against some recent suggestions that the criminal law should consider treating AI entities as autonomous agents, capable of being criminal defendants in their own rights. Watch for that!

Check out our very accessible posts on criminalisation, culpability, consent, moral luck, justifications and excuses, acts and omissions, mala prohibita, proof through statistics, negligence, immigration enforcement, punishment theory, recklessness, transferred malice, prison labour, and much more!

Criminal Justice Theory Blog Accessible, Interesting, Excellent

Since Oct 2021, Liat Levanon (KCL) and I have edited the criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com. Authors worldwide address complex ideas on the theory and philosophy of criminal justice, in simple terms for a generalist audience. Check it out, spread the word, and consider chipping in a post!

Criminalisation and its limits by Levin Güver In this post, I push back against recent suggestions that not all deviations between criminal law and morality are to be regretted (such that we should see them as cases in which we …

Check out @levinguever.bsky.social new post on the Criminal Justice Theory Blog on Criminalisation and its Limits: Here's the direct link: criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/c... Comments and questions welcome!