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Rights of the sovereign: criminal law as public law

Peter Ramsay

King's Law Journal2025https://doi.org/10.1080/09615768.2025.2476261article
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The criminal law has been claimed by public law scholars on the ground that it comprises 'rules governing the relationship between the institutions of government and private citizens'. 1 The status of substantive criminal law as a type of public law nevertheless plays little role in doctrinal or university education in the criminal law.It is, however, a subject of increasing interest among criminal law theorists in the common law world. 2In this contribution, I will present both a rigorous account of the relations between state and citizen that are governed by criminal law and, in the process, a specific public law concept of criminal law.

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@article{peter2025,
  title        = {{Rights of the sovereign: criminal law as public law}},
  author       = {Peter Ramsay},
  journal      = {King's Law Journal},
  year         = {2025},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/09615768.2025.2476261},
}

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0.37

Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40

F · citation impact0.16 × 0.4 = 0.06
M · momentum0.53 × 0.15 = 0.08
V · venue signal0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03
R · text relevance †0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20

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