Hutton Honors College

Excusing Crime: Justice, Mercy, Responsibility
Discussion Lunch with Oxford University Criminal Law Scholar Jeremy Horder

Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009 * 12:30-2 p.m. * Harlos House (1331 E. Tenth St.)
SIGN-UP REQUIRED (See below for procedure.)

How can you assess whether a criminal justice system is just? humane? effective? Should justice be tempered with mercy, or mercy with justice? In what circumstances should a person be excused for a crime knowingly committed? for one provoked? How do "excusing conditions" (such as duress) contrast with "denials of responsibility" (such as insanity)? For a crime such as murder? For domestic violence? Are such questions answered differently in Britain than in the United States? Join criminal law scholar Jeremy Horder for an informal discussion of these and other questions. Professor Horder is the Law Commissioner for England and Wales and a professor of criminal law at Worcester College, Oxford University. He has also served as chairman of the Law Faculty and a chair of the Trustees of the Oxford Institute. His many writings include Provocation and Responsibility and Excusing Crime.

SIGN-UP INFO: If you are interested in attending this event, please e-mail hdubina indicating you wish to sign up for the Horder lunch and including your name, e-mail address, year in school, and field(s) of study. Space is limited so we will let you know by e-mail if a space was available when you replied.

Horder will be on campus as a guest of the Institute for Advanced Study to deliver a Branigin Lecture, "Law Commissions, Experts, and Law Reform: the Case of Homicide," on Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 7 p.m. in the Moot Court Room of the Maurer School of Law. He will also deliver a colloquium, "Philosophy and Morality in the Courtroom: Defenses in Criminal Law," on Monday, Sept. 21, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Maurer School of Law's Faculty Conference Room (on the third floor).

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