Markus D. Dubber
Professor and Roger and Karen Jones Faculty Scholar
A.B., Harvard College, 1988
J.D., Stanford University, 1991
University at Buffalo Law School
The State University of New York
712 O'Brian
Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1100
Phone:(716) 645-6213
Assistant:
Deborah Nasisi, 410 O'Brian Hall, Phone: (716) 645-2459
Biography:
Professor Dubber's research and teaching interests include all aspects of penal law, comparative law, legal theory, and legal history. He joined the SUNY faculty after a stint as Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School and also has served as Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institute of Legal Philosophy, University of Munich, and Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan Law School.
Selected Publications:
Books
Police and the Liberal State (Stanford: Stanford University Press 2008) (co-edited with Mariana Valverde)
New York Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (Boston: Aspen Publishers 2008)
New York Penal Law and Related Provisions (Boston: Aspen Publishers 2008)
Modern Histories of Crime and Punishment (Stanford: Stanford University Press 2007) (co-edited with Lindsay Farmer) (Read Law & Politics Book Review)
The Sense of Justice: Empathy in Law and Punishment (New York: NYU Press 2006) (Read Law & Politics Book Review)
The New Police Science: The Police Power in Domestic and International Governance (Stanford: Stanford University Press 2006) (co-edited with Mariana Valverde) (Read Law & Politics Book Review)
American Criminal Law: Cases, Statutes, and Comments (New York: Foundation Press 2005) (with Mark Kelman)
The Police Power: Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government (New York: Columbia University Press 2005) (Read American Historical Review Book Review)
Einführung in das US-amerikanische Strafrecht (Munich: C.H. Beck 2005) (Read Sample Reviews - Deutsche Richterzeitung [pdf], Juralit.de, HRR-Strafrecht, StudJur-Online]
Criminal Law: Model Penal Code (New York: Foundation Press 2002)
Victims in the War on Crime: The Use and Abuse of Victims' Rights (New York: NYU Press 2002) (Abstract at SSRN library) (Read Law and Politics Review)
Die Stellung des Opfers im Strafrechtssystem: Neue Entwicklungen im deutschen und amerikanischen Recht (Cologne: Heymanns 2000) (co-edited with Bernd Schünemann)
Articles
"Criminal Police and Criminal Law in the Rechtsstaat," in Police and the Liberal State (Stanford: Stanford University Press 2008)
“The American Model Penal Code: A Brief Overview,” 10 New Criminal Law Review 319 (2007) (co-authored with Paul H. Robinson)
“‘An Extraordinarily Beautiful Document’: Jefferson’s Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments and the Challenge of Republican Punishment,” in Modern Histories of Crime and Punishment 115 (Markus D. Dubber & Lindsay Farmer eds. 2007)
“Criminal Law in Comparative Context,” 56 Journal of Legal Education 433 (Special Issue on Transnational Perspectives) (2007) (Full text at SSRN electronic library)
“Criminalizing Complicity: A Comparative Analysis,” 5 Journal of International Criminal Justice (Special Issue on Individual Criminal Responsibility) (2007)
“Guerra e Pace: diritto penale del nemico e Police Power Model nel diritto penale statunitense,” in Diritto penale del nemico: Un dibattito internazionale (Massimo Donini & Michele Papa eds., Milan: Giuffrè 2007)
“Legitimating Penal Law,” 28 Cardozo Law Review 2597 (Special Issue on Fletcher’s The Grammar of Criminal Law) (2007) (Full text at SSRN electronic library)
“Regarding Criminal Law Historically,” in Modern Histories of Crime and Punishment 1 (Markus D. Dubber & Lindsay Farmer eds. 2007) (co-authored with Lindsay Farmer)
“Theories of Crime and Punishment in German Criminal Law,” 53 American Journal of Comparative Law 679 (2006) (Full text at SSRN electronic library)
“Perspectives on the Power and Science of Police,” in The New Police Science: The Police Power in Domestic and International Governance 1 (Markus D. Dubber & Mariana Valverde eds. 2006) (co-authored with Mariana Valverde)
“The New Police Science and the Police Power Model of the Criminal Process,” in The New Police Science: The Police Power in Domestic and International Governance 107 (Markus D. Dubber & Mariana Valverde eds. 2006)
“Guerra y Paz: Derecho penal del enemigo el modelo de Potestad Policial del Derecho penal estadounidense,” in Derecho penal del enemigo: El discurso penal de la exclusion (vol. I) 685 (Cancio Meliá & Gómez-Jara Díez, eds. 2006)
“Comparative Criminal Law,” in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law 1287 (Mathias Reimann & Reinhard Zimmermann eds. 2006) (Full text at SSRN electronic library)
“‘The Power to Govern Men and Things’: Patriarchal Origins of the Police Power in American Law,” 52 Buffalo Law Review 1277 (2005) (Full text at SSRN electronic library)
“The Promise of German Criminal Law: A Science of Crime and Punishment,” 6 German Law Journal 1049 (2005)
“The Possession Paradigm: The Special Part and the Police Power Model of the Criminal Process,” in Defining Crimes: Essays on the Criminal Law’s Special Part 91 (R.A. Duff & Stuart Green eds. 2005) (Full text at SSRN electronic library)
“Positive Generalprävention und Rechtsgutstheorie: Zwei zentrale Errungenschaften der deutschen Strafrechtswissenschaft aus amerikanischer Sicht,” 117 Zeitschrift für die gesamte Strafrechtswissenschaft 485 (2005)
“Making Sense of the Sense of Justice,” 53 Buffalo Law Review 815 (2005) (Full text at SSRN electronic library)
“Strafrechtsdogmatik als Botanik,” in Empirische und dogmatische Fundamente, kriminalpolitischer Impetus 245 (Roland Hefendehl ed. 2005)
"Toward a Constitutional Law of Crime and Punishment," 55 Hastings Law Journal 509 (2004). (Full text at SSRN Electronic Library)
"The Criminal Trial and the Legitimation of Punishment," in The Trial on Trial 85 (R.A. Duff et al. eds. 2004) (Full text at SSRN Electronic Library)
"Policing Possession: The War on Crime and the End of Criminal Law," 91 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 829 (2002) (Full text at SSRN electronic library)
"Penal Panopticon: The Idea of a Modern Model Penal Code," 4 Buffalo Criminal Law Review 3 (2000)
"The Right to Be Punished: Autonomy and Its Demise in Modern Penal Thought," 16 Law & History Review 113 (1998)
"American Plea Bargains, German Lay Judges, and the Crisis of Criminal Procedure," 49 Stanford Law Review 547 (1997)
"The Pain of Punishment," 44 Buffalo Law Review 545 (1996)
