Mark Dsouza
@markedsouza1.bsky.social
Philosophy, juris, crim law, jazz, food. Current Legal Problems, Criminal Law & Philosophy, Criminal Justice Theory Blog, Assize Seminars. UCL Laws
The next Assize Seminar in Cutting Edge Criminal Law is on this Friday, 7 Nov, at UCL Laws, featuring talks by @jonathanherring.bsky.social, Findlay Stark (Cambridge), and Jessica Corsi (City St Georges). Join us Details and (free) tickets here: www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
Assize Seminar – Cutting Edge Criminal Law
organised by Mark Dsouza (UCL), Matthew Dyson (Oxford, Chair), Paul Jarvis (CBA) and Rachel Clement Tolley (Cambridge)
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM
The next Assize Seminar in Cutting Edge Criminal Law is on this Friday, 7 Nov, at UCL Laws, featuring talks by @jonathanherring.bsky.social, Findlay Stark (Cambridge), and Jessica Corsi (City St Georges). Join us Details and (free) tickets here: www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
With Matt Dyson (Oxford), Rachel Tolley (Cambridge), & Paul Jarvis (Criminal Bar Association), I will host the next Assize Seminar in Criminal Law at UCL Laws on 7 Nov. Speakers include: @jonathanherring.bsky.social, Jessica Corsi, Findlay Stark. Info + (free) tickets: www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
Assize Seminar – Cutting Edge Criminal Law
organised by Mark Dsouza (UCL), Matthew Dyson (Oxford, Chair), Paul Jarvis (CBA) and Rachel Clement Tolley (Cambridge)
www.ucl.ac.uk
September 17, 2025 at 7:24 AM
With Matt Dyson (Oxford), Rachel Tolley (Cambridge), & Paul Jarvis (Criminal Bar Association), I will host the next Assize Seminar in Criminal Law at UCL Laws on 7 Nov. Speakers include: @jonathanherring.bsky.social, Jessica Corsi, Findlay Stark. Info + (free) tickets: www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
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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...
discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
May 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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...
discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
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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...
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...
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...
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May 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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...
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...
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A little snippet into my upcoming monograph with Routledge...
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
Criminal Justice Theory Blog
Accessible, Interesting, Excellent
criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com
April 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM
A little snippet into my upcoming monograph with Routledge...
This is now live at criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/v...
April 11, 2025 at 7:55 AM
This is now live at criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/v...
This is imminent!
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
Criminal Justice Theory Blog
Accessible, Interesting, Excellent
criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
This is imminent!
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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
Criminal Justice Theory Blog
Accessible, Interesting, Excellent
criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com
April 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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
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And here it is: criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/i... Comments and reflections most welcome! Thanks to @marthe.bsky.social!
March 28, 2025 at 10:08 AM
And here it is: criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/i... Comments and reflections most welcome! Thanks to @marthe.bsky.social!
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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
Criminal Justice Theory Blog
Accessible, Interesting, Excellent
criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com
March 26, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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
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🚨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...
📍QMUL (hybrid)
🗓️ Wed 9 April at 6 pm
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Book Launch - Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law
Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law (CUP) by Chloë Kennedy
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March 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
🚨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...
📍QMUL (hybrid)
🗓️ Wed 9 April at 6 pm
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
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...
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 […]
theartofcrime.gr
February 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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...
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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...
📢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...
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…
www.bloomsbury.com
February 7, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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...
📢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...
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This is imminent!
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
Criminal Justice Theory Blog
Accessible, Interesting, Excellent
criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com
February 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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
Criminal Justice Theory Blog
Accessible, Interesting, Excellent
criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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.
Rights in Criminal Law
www.bloomsburycollections.com
February 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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.
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And here is @adam-kolber.bsky.social's post: criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2025/01/31/k...
January 31, 2025 at 3:40 PM
And here is @adam-kolber.bsky.social's post: criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2025/01/31/k...
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This is imminent!
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
Criminal Justice Theory Blog
Accessible, Interesting, Excellent
criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com
January 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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
Criminal Justice Theory Blog
Accessible, Interesting, Excellent
criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com
January 29, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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!
@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!
January 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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!
@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!
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!
Criminal Justice Theory Blog
Accessible, Interesting, Excellent
criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com
January 15, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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!
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!
December 13, 2024 at 9:25 AM
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!
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!
Criminal Justice Theory Blog
Accessible, Interesting, Excellent
criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com
December 13, 2024 at 9:18 AM
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.
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!
Criminal Justice Theory Blog
Accessible, Interesting, Excellent
criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com
December 13, 2024 at 7:51 AM
This will be out imminently.
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!
Criminal Justice Theory Blog
Accessible, Interesting, Excellent
criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com
December 11, 2024 at 8:54 AM
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!