ABSTRACT

Reconstructing Criminal Law is a leading work in criminal law because of its lasting pedagogical value. The volume’s distinctive construction - placing social context and criminal process alongside doctrinal arrangements - provokes essential questions in criminal law teaching, ones that go to the legitimacy and equality of criminal law. As such, despite the book itself being currently out of date, it can still be read today as a key feminist text, and its potential remains as a means of queering criminal law teaching to offer viewpoints still marginalised in criminal law teaching.