Markus Dirk Dubber
Professor of Law & Director of the Buffalo Criminal Law Center
SUNY at Buffalo School of Law

"The Police Power and the Foundations of Criminal Law"

Thursday, March 27, 2003
3:30 p.m.
Lubar Commons (7200 Law)

Sponsored by The Center for European Studies Link to CES website
 Hosted by the Institute for Legal Studies and cosponsored by the Remington Center, with support from the Oliver S. Rundell Fund.

Markus Dubber is a Professor of Law at the State University of New York and the Buffalo School of Law. He received a B.A. in Philosophy from Harvard University (1988) and a J.D from Stanford University (1991). Before coming to Buffalo, Professor Dubber clerked for Gerald B. Tjoflat of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit. He has taught at the University of Michigan Law School as a Visiting Professor of Law, and at the University of Chicago Law School as a Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law.

Professor Dubber teaches courses on criminal law and procedure, the history of punishment and criminal justice, and the philosophy of criminality and justice. Dubber's broad intellectual, philosphical, and historical approach to the study of criminal law has led his work into many cross-disciplinary and comparative fields. He has written widely on the subjects of war crimes, the morality of penal codes, criminal law reform in the United States, and has worked extensively on German practices and philosophies of crime and punishment. He has published in both English and German journals and law reviews. He is currently working on a number of projects, including a study of police power, a critical introduction to German criminal law, a study of the New York penal code, and a philosophical work on the power of empathy in law.

His books include Victims in the War on Crime: The Use and Abuse of Victims' Rights (New York University Press, 2002) and Moral Penal Code (Foundation Press, 2002). With Bernd Schunemann, he co-edited Die Stellung des Opfers im Strafrechtssystem. Neue Entwicklungen im deutschen und amerikanischen Recht (Cologne, 2000). Representative articles include "The Penal Panopticon: The Idea of a Modern Moral Penal Code," 4 Buffalo Criminal Law Review (2000), "The Historical Analysis of Criminal Codes," 18 Law and History Review (2000), "The Right to be Punished: Autonomy and Its Demise in Modern Penal Thought" 16 Law and History Review (1998), "American Plea Bargains, German Lay Judges, and the Crisis of Criminal Procedure" 49 Stanford Law Review (1997), and "The German Jury and the Metaphysical Volk: From Romantic Idealism to Nazi Ideology" 43 American Journal of Comparative Law (1995).

At Buffalo, Professor Dubber serves as director of the Buffalo Criminal Law Center and is editor of the Buffalo Criminal Law Review. In 2000, he received a fellowship from the Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) and has since developed a number of online resources for students of criminal law. He has created websites devoted to penal law, New York criminal law, and constitutional criminal law. Professor Dubber has also received numerous fellowships and awards in Germany and America for both scholarship and teaching.