Ideology and Criminal Law under Fascist, National Socialist and Authoritarian Regimes

This proposed collection builds on the success of Fascism and Criminal Law: History, Theory,Continuity (Hart Bloomsbury, 2015). Based on the particular significance of criminal law inunderstanding the nature, exercise and representation of State power identified anddiscussed in that collection, this proposed collection intends to take the discussion further byfocusing on the relationship between ideology and criminal law under Italian Fascism,German National Socialism, and other regimes that could be labelled as generically fascist orauthoritarian. The collection is thus intended to provide wider and deeper reflection on theideas, beliefs and political principles that shaped the criminal law of the systems in question,how those systems operated through courts and repressive practices, and how ideologicalfactors influenced the substantive criminal law. The systems considered are explored bothon their own terms and in some chapters through comparative analysis, in relation to similarsystems and those apparently opposed to them. The collection is also intended to be moreextensive than the previous volume, with almost twice the number of contributors,including as before leading experts in the field and a number of emerging scholars.Moreover, this collection will present chapters by common theme to foster comparative andcritical reflection across systemic boundaries. The collection took root in a two-dayworkshop held at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London on the 10th-11thSeptember 2015, entitled 'Anti-Democratic Ideology and Criminal Law under Fascist,National Socialist and Authoritarian Regimes'. The chapters will all be based on originalresearch and, as with the previous collection, will also constitute an important and muchneeded English language resource providing access to work on legal systems that arecurrently under-represented in Anglo-American scholarship.
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