Lycoming College welcomes Gregg D. Caruso, Ph.D., professor of philosophy at SUNY Corning, visiting fellow at the New College of the Humanities (NCH London), and honorary professor of philosophy at ...

Law and Philosophy, Vol. 32, No. 1, VICTOR TADROS' "THE ENDS OF HARM" (January 2013), pp. 59-82 (24 pages) Victor Tadros claims that punishment must be justified either instrumentally or on the ...

Contemporary international criminal jurisprudence has fashioned a legal paradigm encoding the crime of genocide as a violation of moral law. Structured by an ethos of deontological retributivism, it ...

Alan M. Gershel is a criminal law professor at Thomas M. Cooley Law School. From 1989 to 2008, he was chief of the Criminal Division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan.

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At the American Law Institute’s Annual Meeting on Wednesday, May 24, 2017 members voted to approve The Model Penal Code: Sentencing Project—a 15-year project to revise the Model Penal Code, first ...

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Alan M. Gershel is a criminal law professor at Thomas M. Cooley Law School. From 1989 to 2008, he was chief of the Criminal Division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan.