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Antony Duff is a leading scholar in the philosophy of criminal law and punishment. He is professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Stirling, where he taught from 1970–2009, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh as well as the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Duff’s impressive body of work consists of rational reconstructions and normative theorizing about nearly every significant aspect of criminal law and punishment, including the criminal process, the substance of criminal law, the structure of criminal law, and the scope of criminal law. Much of his work aims at developing idealized, aspirational accounts of criminal justice. Yet his normative theorizing is characterized by its attentiveness to the divergence between the ideal and the real and its attempt to remain well-anchored in the practical. Duff pays careful attention to existing legal doctrine and caselaw and avoids endorsing any normative account that...

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  1. Polonsky Academy, The Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, Israel

    Leora Dahan Katz

  2. Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

    Leora Dahan Katz

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Dahan Katz, L. (2018). Duff, Antony. In: Sellers, M., Kirste, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6730-0_191-2

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