Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law Now Available

I am delighted to announce that Stanford University Press has now published The Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law, which I edited with the University of Toronto’s Markus Dubber.  The book contains chapters on the substantive criminal law of 16 different countries, including some on which there has been little English-language scholarship, such as Iran, Egypt, China, and Argentina.  There is also a chapter on the comparative origins of the Rome Statute, authored by yours truly.  Here is one of the advance reviews:

“This book offers a rare combination of panoramic geographical reach with telling national detail and so provides an invaluable tool for thinking about where societies converge and diverge on all the perennial questions, including the proper ambit of criminal law, the severity of its sanctions, and the relative importance of its central purposes. The tightly integrated chapters, by leading scholars in their respective countries, invite us to ask why countries are harmonizing their criminal law in some respects, while preserving major differences in others. We are also led to wonder how it is that several modern societies—all avowedly ‘liberal’ in their self-understandings—differ so deeply in their view of what liberalism really requires of us when criminalizing serious wrong.”—Mark J. Osiel, University of Iowa

The book is priced at $90.00 (US), which seems eminently fair for a hardback that is nearly 700 pages long.  It’s available from Stanford here and from Amazon here.  I hope readers find it useful!