This is a selective list of papers; a complete list of publications is attached to my CV.
Most of the papers on this list can also be obtained from the Stirling Research Repository (STORRE).
Papers that are unavailable online can be requested from me at r.a.duff@stir.ac.uk
2025
‘Principles of Criminalisation’ (with T Hörnle), in Ambos et al (eds), Core Concepts in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice vol. III, Cambridge University Press, 2025, 13-54
‘“Responsive Penal Censure” and its Implications’, in Manikis and Watson (eds), Sentencing, Public Opinion, and Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press, 2025), 23-36
‘The Procedural Rights (and Responsibilities) of the Guilty’, in Hirsch and Moser (eds), Rights in Criminal Law (Hart, 2025), 257-71
‘The Reciprocity of Criminal Responsibility’, in Crofts et al (eds), Routledge International Handbook on Criminal Responsibility (Routledge, 2025), 37-46
‘Communicative Theory’, in Ryberg (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Punishment Theory and Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2025), 90-112
2024
‘Reporting Crimes and Arresting Criminals: Citizens’ Rights and Responsibilities under their Criminal Law’ (with S E Marshall) (2024) 18 Criminal Law and Philosophy 557-77
‘Justice In-Between?’ (2024) 28 Edinburgh Law Review 221-8
2023
‘De Minimis and the Structure of the Criminal Trial’ (2023) 42 Law and Philosophy 57-86
‘Strict Liability and Strict Responsibility’, in Kiener (ed), Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility (Routledge, 2023), 480-89
‘When Should We Plead Guilty?’, in Roberts and Ryberg (eds.), Sentencing the Self-Convicted (Hart Publishing, 2023) 15-33
‘Risk, Responsibility, and Pre-Trial Detention’, in Broadhead and Placani (eds), Risk and Responsibility in Context (Routledge, 2023), 73-93
2022
‘Crimes of Endangerment’ (with T Hörnle), in Ambos et al (eds) Core Concepts in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice vol. II, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 132-65
‘Beccaria’s Contractarian Criminal Law’ (with S E Marshall), in duBois Pedain and Eldar (eds), Re-Reading Beccaria (Hart Publishing, 2022), 53-71
‘State Responsibility: An Outsider’s View’, in Besson (ed.), Theories of International Responsibility Law (Cambridge University Press, 2022), 70-92
‘Purgative Punishment and the Importance of Perspective’, in Kurki and McBride (eds), Without Trimmings: The Legal, Moral and Political Philosophy of Matthew Kramer (Oxford University Press, 2022), 321-42
2021
‘Proportionality and the Criminal Law’, in Billis et al (eds), Proportionality in Crime Control and Criminal Justice (Hart Publishing, 2021), 29-47
‘Searching for Criminal Responsibility: What are We Looking for?’, in Solanke (ed.), On Crime, Society and Responsibility in the work of Nicola Lacey (Oxford University Press, 2021), 33-52
‘Character, Propensities, and the (Mis)use of Statistics in Criminal Trials’ (with S E Marshall), in Hoskins and Ronson (eds), The Social Epistemology of Legal Trials (Routledge, 2021), 77-91
2020
‘Defending the Realm of Criminal Law’ (2020) 14 Criminal Law and Philosophy 465-500
‘Criminal Law and the Constitution of Civil Order’ (2020) 70 University of Toronto Law Journal (Supp) 4-26
‘Legal Obligation and the Criminal Law’, in Bertea (ed.), Contemporary Perspectives on Legal Obligation (Routledge, 2020), 116-32
‘Offenders as Citizens’, in Focquaert et al (eds), The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Science of Punishment (Routledge, 2020), 26-36
‘Responsible Agency in the Criminal Process’, in McCay and Sevel (eds), Free Will and the Law: New Perspectives (Routledge, 2020) 126-43
2019
‘Cliff-top Predicaments and Morally Blemished Lives’ (2019) 19 Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 125-40
‘Two Models of Criminal Fault’ (2019) 13 Criminal Law and Philosophy 643-65
‘Crimes, Public Wrongs, and Civil Order’ (with S E Marshall) (2019) 13 Criminal Law and Philosophy 27-48
‘Moral and Criminal Responsibility: Answering and Refusing to Answer’ (2019) 5 Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility 165-90
‘“Thank God I Failed”’, in Hurd (ed.), Moral Puzzles and Legal Perplexities (Cambridge University Press, 2019) 60-75
2018
‘Criminal Law and Criminalization: A Response to Critics’ (2018) 18 Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 62-87
‘Legal Reasoning, Good Citizens, and the Criminal Law’ (2018) 9 Jurisprudence 120-31
‘Responsibility and Reciprocity’ (2018) 21 Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 775-87
‘Criminalizing Hate’ (with S E Marshall), in Brudholm and Johansen (eds.), Hate, Politics, Law (Oxford University Press, 2018) 115-49
2017
‘Discretion and Accountability in a Democratic Criminal Law’, in Langer and Sklansky (eds), Prosecutors and Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2017) 9-39
2016
‘Civic Punishment’ (with S E Marshall), in Dzur et al (eds), Democratic Theory and Mass Incarceration (Oxford University Press, 2016) 33-59
‘Legal Moralism and Public Wrongs’, in Ferzan and Morse (eds), Legal, Moral, and Metaphysical Truths (Oxford University Press, 2016), 95-109
2015
‘“Abstract Endangerment”, Two Harm Principles, and Two Routes to Criminalisation’ (with S E Marshall) (2015) 3 Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice 131-161
‘Criminal Responsibility and the Emotions: If Fear and Anger Can Exculpate, Why Not Compassion?’ (2015) 58 Inquiry 189-220
2014
‘Introduction: Towards a Theory of Criminalization?’ (with L Farmer, S Marshall, M Renzo, V Tadros), in Farmer et al (eds), Criminalization: The Political Morality of the Criminal Law, Oxford University Press, 2014, 1-53
‘Torts, Crimes and Vindication: Whose Wrong is it?’, in Dyson (ed.), Unravelling Tort and Crime (Cambridge University Press, 2014), 146-73
‘Repairing Harms and Answering for Wrongs’, in Oberdiek (ed.), Philosophical Foundations of the Law of Torts (Oxford University Press, 2014), 212-30
2013
‘Who Must Presume Whom to be Innocent of What?’ (2013) 42 Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy 170-92
‘Relational Reasons and the Criminal Law’ (2013) 2 Oxford Studies in Legal Philosophy 175-208
‘Intention Revisited’, in Baker and Horder (eds), The Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law: The Legacy of Glanville Williams (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) 148-77
‘Pre-Trial Detention and the Presumption of Innocence’, in Ashworth et al (eds), Prevention and the Limits of the Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, 2013) 115-32
‘Virtue, Vice and the Criminal Law’, in Lai and Amaya (eds), Law, Virtue and Justice (Hart Publishing, 2013) 195-214
2012
‘Guiding Commitments and Criminal Liability for Attempts’ (2012) 6 Criminal Law and Philosophy 411-427
‘Political Retributivism and Legal Moralism’ (2012) 1 Virginia Journal of Criminal Law 179-204
‘Risks, Culpability, Criminal Liability’, in Sullivan and Dennis (eds), Seeking Security (Hart Publishing, 2012) 121-42
‘Presuming Innocence’, in Zedner and Roberts (eds), Principles and Values in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press, 2012) 51-66
‘Responsibility, Restoration and Retribution’, in Tonry (ed.), Retributivism Has a Past: Has it a Future? (Oxford University Press, 2012) 63-85
2011
‘Responsibility, Citizenship and Criminal Law’, in Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law (above) 125-48
‘Retrieving Retributivism’, in White (ed.), Retributivism: Essays on Theory and Policy (Oxford University Press, 2011) 3-24
‘Mercy’, in Deigh and Dolinko (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, 2011) 467-92
2010
‘Perversions and Subversions of Criminal Law’, in Farmer et al (eds), The Boundaries of the Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, 2010), 88-112
‘A Criminal Law for Citizens’ (2010) 14(3) Theoretical Criminology 293-309
‘Blame, Moral Standing and the Legitimacy of the Criminal Trial’, (2010) 23 Ratio 123-40
‘What Kind of Responsibility Must Criminal Law Presuppose?’, in Swinburne (ed.), Free Will and Modern Science (Oxford University Press, 2010), 178-99
‘In Response’, in Cruft, Kramer, Reiff (eds), Crime, Punishment, and Responsibility: The Jurisprudence of Antony Duff (Oxford University Press, 2010), 351-79
‘Psychopathy and Answerability’, in Malatesti and McMillan (eds.), Responsibility and Psychopathy (Oxford University Press, 2010) 198-212
‘Authority and Responsibility in International Criminal Law’, in Besson and Tasioulas (eds), Philosophy of International Law (Oxford University Press, 2010) 589-604
2009
‘Philosophy and “the Life of the Law”’ (2009) 27 Journal of Applied Philosophy 245-58
‘Can We Punish the Perpetrators of Atrocities?’, in Brudholm and Cushman (eds), The Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocities (Cambridge University Press, 2009), 79-104
2008
‘Whose Luck is it Anyway?’, in Cunningham (ed.), Criminal Liability for Non-Aggressive Death (Ashgate, 2008), 61-78
2007
‘The Intrusion of Mercy’ (2007) 4 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 361-87
2006
‘How Offensive Can You Get?’ (with S E Marshall), in von Hirsch and Simester (eds.), Incivilities: Regulating Offensive Behaviour (Hart Publishing, 2006) 57-90
2005
‘Criminalizing Endangerment’, in Defining Crimes (ed. with S P Green), Oxford University Press, 2005, 43-64
‘Theorizing Criminal Law’ (2005) 25 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 353-67
2004
‘Action, the Act Requirement and Criminal Liability’, in Hyman and Steward (eds.), Agency and Action (Cambridge University Press, 2004), 69-103
2003
‘“I Might be Guilty, but You Can’t Try Me”: Estoppel and Other Bars to Trial’ (2003) 1 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 245-259.
‘The Limits of Virtue Jurisprudence’ (2003) 34 Metaphilosophy 214-224
‘Probation, Punishment and Restorative Justice’, (2003) 42 Howard Journal of Criminal Justice 180-96
‘Restoration and Retribution’, in von Hirsch et al (eds.), Restorative Justice and Criminal Justice: Competing or Reconcilable Paradigms? (Hart Publishing, 2003), 43-59
2002
‘Virtue, Vice and Criminal Liability’ (2002) 6 Buffalo Criminal Law Review 147-184
‘Crime, Prohibition and Punishment’, (2002) 19 Journal of Applied Philosophy 97-108
2001
‘Harms and Wrongs’ (2001) 5 Buffalo Criminal Law Review 13-45
2000
‘Benefits, Burdens and Responsibilities: Some Ethical Dimensions of Situational Crime Prevention’ (with S E Marshall), in von Hirsch et al (eds.), Ethical and Social Perspectives on Situational Crime Prevention (Hart Publishing, 2000), 17-35
1998
‘Principle and Contradiction in the Criminal Law: Motives and Criminal Liability’, in Duff (ed.), Philosophy and the Criminal Law, Cambridge University Press, 1998, 156-204
‘Law, Language and Community’ (1998) 18 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 189-206
‘Dangerousness and Citizenship’, in Ashworth and Wasik (eds.), Fundamentals of Sentencing Theory (Oxford University Press, 1998), 141-63.
1993
‘Choice, Character and Criminal Liability’ (1993) 12 Law and Philosophy 345-383.
