Abstract
Abstract This book presents chapters which critically engage with formative texts in criminal legal thought since Hobbes. It aims to contribute to the emergence of a transnational canon of criminal law by documenting its intellectual and disciplinary history and, at the same time, to present a snapshot of contemporary work on criminal law within that historical and comparative context. As a first, programmatic, effort, the book does not attempt to assemble a comprehensive, never mind a definitive, set of certified “classic” texts. Instead it features a selection of texts reflecting significant aspects in the development of modern conceptions of crime, punishment, and law. Criminal law discourse has become, and will continue to become, more international and comparative, and in this sense global: the long-standing parochialism of criminal law scholarship and doctrine is giving way to a broad exploration of the foundations of modern criminal law.
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