PENAL LAW:
A Web
by
Markus D. Dubber
Professor of Law
University of Toronto, Faculty of Law
Introduction & User's Guide

A comprehensive on-line digest of American criminal law, the Penal Law Web is part of a comprehensive program to reform American penal law teaching, scholarship, and practice.  Additional information on this program is available here.  Click here for an interactive illustration of the Penal Law Web's role in criminal law teaching.  For an on-line digest of New York criminal law, go to New York Criminal Law: A Web.

Analytic Structure of American Criminal Law

Three-level analysis of criminal liability with links to codes, cases, & commentary--with emphasis on the Model Penal Code & New York Penal Law.
Comparative analysis of modes of culpability, under the Model Penal Code, Anglo-American common law, and civil law.

Constitutional Criminal Law

Materials exploring the constitutional constraints on substantive, rather than procedural, criminal law--with an emphasis on, but not limited to, federal constitutional law and U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence.

Overview of American Criminal Law

Systematic selection of codes, cases, & commentary covering the general & special part of American criminal law--with emphasis on the Model Penal Code, New York Penal Law, & U.S. Code.

Statutes and Other Penal Norms

Annotated with hyperlinks 

Other Statutes
Search the annotated New York Penal Law:

  Unannotated 
Court Opinions


Penal Code Comparer
    Compare penal codes by topic, side-by-side on a split screen. 

    Click here for the standard Comparer.
    Click here for the enhanced Comparer featuring the Model Penal Code. 
    Click here to compare full text codes.
     


Penal Code Analyzer
    Analyze penal codes by topic on a full screen. 

    Click here for the standard Analyzer.
    Click here for the enhanced Analyzer featuring the Model Penal Code.

Acknowledgments