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This volume brings together a collection of essays, many of them scholarly classics, which form part of the debate around three questions central to criminal law theory: firstly, what conduct should be necessary for criminal liability, and what sufficient? Secondly, what culpability should be necessary for criminal liability, and what sufficient.

This volume offers a selection of significant and influential research articles from the contemporary philosophical debate over the fundamental concepts and structures of Anglo-American criminal law. The articles consider the moral legitimacy of punishment, excuse and justification defenses and the conundrums of attempt liability.

The essays selected for this volume discuss the meaning and rationale of fundamental individual rights to substantive criminal law, criminal procedure law and sentencing law. The essays have been chosen for their high quality.

This volume contributes to the codification debate by bringing together research articles which compare and contrast the experience of countries which have a criminal code with those operating a case law system. Whereas wholesale codification is a much more accepted phenomenon in the continental law traditions.

The articles and essays reprinted in this volume explore many of the most significant and pressing questions, issues, opportunities and challenges presented by forensic science and other expert evidence for contemporary criminal adjudication. The focus is mainly on scientific proof in criminal trials and the criminal trial.

The articles and essays reproduced in this volume explore the 'theoretical foundations' of 'criminal trial procedure'. This is a precise, but also fundamentally question-begging, description of the book's scope and ambitions. Viewed in isolation, each of the components of its title might be regarded as conceptually problematic.