Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law

Linguistic inequity in academia: evidence from publication patterns in philosophy, 1975–2021

Abstract Linguistic inequity affecting non-native English speakers is widely documented in academia. This inequity is especially visible in philosophy, where success depends unusually heavily on the quality and nuance of written expression. Yet existing studies rely on small samp...

The ‘Who’, ‘What’, and ‘When’ of Moral Progress

The literature on moral progress is full of (supposed) real-life examples of moral progress. These examples have two distinct components: one normative and one descriptive. The former picks out the moral criteria by which an episode of change counts as morally progressive; the la...

Towards an Asian registry of wrongful convictions

Wrongful convictions represent a persistent yet unevenly documented problem across Asian criminal justice systems. While international research has identified common factors contributing to known wrongful convictions, systematic information about wrongful conviction cases in Asia...

Against the View of the Criminal Trial as “Calling Defendants to Account”

Abstract The conventional view is that the purpose of a criminal trial is to determine whether the defendant committed a crime and, if so, what the appropriate legal response should be. This view has been criticized for failing to justify adequately the procedural rights of factu...