Rethinking criminal law theory new Canadian perspectives in the philosophy of domestic, transnational and international criminal law

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Two conceptions of equality before the (criminal) law / Malcolm Thorburn -- Individual emergencies and the rule of criminal law / François Tanguay-Renaud -- The wrong, the bad and the wayward : liberalism's mala in se / Alan Brudner -- Obscenity without borders / Leslie Green -- Understanding the Voluntary Act principle / Andrew Botterell -- Mental disorder and the instability of blame in criminal law / Benjamin L. Berger -- Responsibility, self-respect and the ethics of self-pathologization / Annalise Acorn -- Excuses and excusing conditions / Dennis Klimchuk -- The law of evidence and the protection of rights / Hamish Stewart -- Packer's blind spot : low visability encounters and the limits of due procss versus crime control / James Stribopoulos -- Social deprivation and criminal justice / Kimberley Brownlee -- Universal jurisdiction and the duty to govern / Michael Giudice and Matthew Schaeffer -- International criminal law : between utopian dreams and political realities / Margaret Martin -- Joint intentions / Jens David Ohlin -- Theorizing duress and necessity in international criminal law / Dwight Newman.