Friday, May 2, 2014
Organized by the Buffalo Criminal Law Center, this conference brought together speakers from Europe, Latin America and the United States to talk about a wide variety of issues related either to causation or culpability in the criminal law. Specific issues include, but were not limited to:
- Criticism of the Model Penal Code's approach to causation
- Recklessness and Dolus Eventualis
- The culpability of corporations
- The culpability of accomplices
The ultimate goal of the conference was to lay the foundation for future comparative criminal law conversations. The event was part of the BCLC Comparative Criminal Law Conversations Project, which strives to bridge the gap between common and civil law approaches to the criminal justice issues of our day.
Welcome - Luis Chiesa, Professor and Director of the Buffalo Criminal Law Center, UB School of Law
Imputing Liability: The Culpability of Corporations and Accomplices
Presenters:
- Heidi M. Hurd, David C. Baum Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy
Co-Director, Program in Law and Philosophy, University of Illinois College of Law - Amy J. Sepinwall, Assistant Professor, Legal Studies and Business Ethics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- John Vervaele, Professor in Economic and European Criminal Law (Utrecht University) and Professor in European Criminal Law (Brugge)
Culpability: Philosophical Perspectives
Presenters:
- Deborah W. Denno, Arthur A. McGivney Professor, Fordham University School of Law
- Stephen P. Garvey, Professor, Cornell University Law School
- Adam Kolber, Professor, Brooklyn Law School
Culpability: Domestic and International Perspectives
Presenters:
- Kenneth W. Simons, Professor, Boston University School of Law
- Kai Ambos - Institute for Criminal Law & Criminal Justice; Head Dept. for Foreign and International Criminal Law; Chair for Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Comparative Law and International Criminal Law at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
Causation and the Fair Attribution of Harm in the Criminal Law I
Presenters:
- Jean Pierre Matus, Professor of Criminal Law, University of Chile
- Paul H. Robinson, Colin S. Diver Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Causation and the Fair Attribution of Harm in the Criminal Law II
Presenters:
- Anthony Duff, Professor and Russell M. and Elizabeth M. Bennett Chair in Excellence, University of Minnesota Law School; and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Stirling
- Sandra Marshall, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Stirling
- Manuel Cancio Meliá, Professor, Universidad Autonoma of Madrid