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
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Why Autonomous AI cannot be a Criminal Law agent
by Mark Dsouza In this post, 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 o…
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On Feb 12, catch Prof Antje du Bois-Pedain's (Cambridge) Current Legal Problems lecture: 'Against Pro-Tanto Wrongs in the Theoretical Armature of Criminal Liability'. Antje was my PhD Supervisor, and is a huge influence on me. Her ideas are always worth engaging with. Registration: shorturl.at/J5Fri
CLP - Against Pro Tanto Wrongs in the Theoretical Armature of Criminal Liability
This lecture will be delivered by Professor Antje du Bois-Pedain, as part of the Current Legal Problems Lecture Series 2025-26
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On 19-20 Feb, I'm co-organising this public event: www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/... Papers focus on issues of legal theory, in particular (though not exclusively) as they relate to the criminal law. All are welcome, but places are limited, so please book through the link.
UCL-Korea Conference on Criminal Law and Jurisprudence
This UCL200 conference brings UK-based academics into dialogue with colleagues from South Korea to exchange ideas in criminal law and jurisprudence.
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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)
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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)
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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...
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...
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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A little snippet into my upcoming monograph with Routledge...
Criminal Justice Theory Blog@theoryjustice.bsky.social · last yr.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
This is now live at criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/v...
Vulnerability versus Autonomy: better together? The future for sexual offences
by Sorcha McCormack In this post, I argue that humans are not rational robots; rather, we are defined, in part, by our vulnerability to circumstances and to each other. The law relating to sexual c…
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Criminal Justice Theory Blog@theoryjustice.bsky.social · last yr.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
This is imminent!
Criminal Justice Theory Blog@theoryjustice.bsky.social · last yr.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
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
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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!
Image-based sexual abuse and personhood: A relational approach to wrongfulness
by Marthe Goudsmit Samaritter In this post, I argue that the wrongfulness of image-based sexual abuse lies in its infringement of personhood, and that this infringement is more fully captured when …
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Criminal Justice Theory Blog@theoryjustice.bsky.social · last yr.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
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
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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...
Book Launch - Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law
Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law (CUP) by Chloë Kennedy
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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 […]
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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...
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…
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This is imminent!
Criminal Justice Theory Blog@theoryjustice.bsky.social · 2y agoThis 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
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
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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
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And here is @adam-kolber.bsky.social's post: criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2025/01/31/k...
Kolber on Punishment for the Greater Good
by Adam Kolber In this post, I outline the argument I make in my recently published book, Punishment for the Greater Good. I argue that a pure consequentialist approach to punishment (one that deni…
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Criminal Justice Theory Blog@theoryjustice.bsky.social · 2y agoThis is imminent!
This is imminent!
Criminal Justice Theory Blog@theoryjustice.bsky.social · 2y agoThis 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
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
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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!
Can Actions Manifest What Is Not There?
by Alexander Sarch In this post, I argue that the criminal law can fairly take D’s actions to manifest traits/attitudes that we know D lacked, when: (1) D knows of a convention that will attribute …
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Mark Dsouza@markedsouza1.bsky.social · 2y agoIn 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!
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
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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.
Mark Dsouza@markedsouza1.bsky.social · 2y agoNew 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!
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!
Mark Dsouza@markedsouza1.bsky.social · 2y agoIn 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!
This will be out imminently.
Mark Dsouza@markedsouza1.bsky.social · 2y agoIn 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!
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
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!
Why Autonomous AI cannot be a Criminal Law agent
by Mark Dsouza In this post, 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 o…
criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com
Mark Dsouza@markedsouza1.bsky.social · 2y agoIn 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!
