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On August 11, the last day of the ongoing session of Parliament, the Indian Government tabled a notice that it wished to introduce three new bills on the Floor of the House for consideration. These were proposed statutes to replace the holy trinity of Indian criminal law: The Indian Penal Code of 1860, the Criminal Procedure Code of 1973, and the Indian Evidence Act of 1872, were to be replaced by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam respectively. Even though the reform was marketed as an attempt to break from the colonial origins of criminal law, it actually represents a resurgence of the colonial-style authoritarian approach, rather than an effort to build upon the relatively modest progress made half a century ago in advancing individual freedom and civil rights.

The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Criminal Testimonial Injustice by Jennifer Lackey. Here is a description: Through a detailed analysis that draws on work across philosophy, the law, and social psychology, Criminal Testimonial Injustice shows that, from the very beginning of...

Re'em Segev (Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Faculty of Law) has posted Actions, Agents, and Consequences (Criminal Justice Ethics, Vol. 42. No. 2, 2023) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: According to an appealing and common view, the moral status...