CLP - Against Pro Tanto Wrongs

Speaker: Prof. Antje du Bois-Pedain(University of Cambridge)

Chair: TBC

This lecture seeks to demonstrate that it is a mistake to imbue conduct which fulfils the definitional requirements of a criminal offence with the moral import of a pro tanto wrong. Based on a Pufendorfian understanding of human agency, it shows how, why, and where the pro tanto wrong analysis leads criminal liability assessments astray. It also positively shows which liability judgments are supported by this framework in cases of mistaken self-defence and other scenarios where the pro tanto wrong conception of apparent offence commission matters.

Prof. Antje du Bois-Pedain is Professor of Criminal Law and Philosophy, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Penal Theory and Ethics, at the University of Cambridge. She has published extensively on transitional justice, criminal law theory, sentencing, and the philosophy of punishment. Her current project reconstructs the foundations of criminal liability based on a Pufendorfian understanding of human agency.

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