The Blog’s second anniversary – Awards for best ECR posts!

by the Editors

For the blog’s second anniversary, we announce the awards for the best posts by ECRs in 2022-23. Similar prizes will also be offered for the best posts published in 2023-24.

Recycled Malice

by Findlay Stark

Criminal lawyers accept a doctrine of transferred malice, but while doing so, also seem to accept that in so being transferred, malice can be multiplied, such that a person who intended to harm one other person can find themselves convicted of intentionally harming several people. In this post, I argue that ‘recycling malice’ in this way is inappropriate, and that this conclusion casts doubt even on the logic of the more accepted doctrine of transferred malice.

The Blog’s first anniversary – some exciting announcements!

by the Editors

For the blog’s first anniversary, we announce prizes for posts by PhD students and ECRs + we now welcome review posts.