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Codification, Macaulay and the Indian Penal Code: The Legacies and Modern Challenges of Criminal Law Reform
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January 2011

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21 Citations

W.-C. Chan

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Barry Wright

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S. Yeo

Enacted in 1860, the Indian Penal Code is the longest serving and one of the most influential criminal codes in the common law world. This book commemorates its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary and honours the law reform legacy of Thomas Macaulay, the principal drafter of the Code. The book comprises chapters which examine the general principles of criminal responsibility from the perspective of Macaulay, and from more recent accounts by lawmakers and reformers. These are framed by chapters that examine the history and conceptual underpinnings of Macaulay's Code, consider the need to revitalize the Indian Penal Code, and review the current challenges of principled criminal law reform and codification. This book is a valuable reference on the Indian Penal Code, and current debates about general principles of criminal law for legal academics, judges, legal practitioners and criminal law reformers. It also promises to have wider scholarly appeal, of interest to legal theorists, historians and policy specialists. © Wing-Cheong Chan, Barry Wright and Stanley Yeo 2011. All rights reserved.

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... Sixth, in the legal field itself, due to decades of colonialism, several jurisprudence theories that originated in the West have found a place in Indian jurisprudence. Moreover, the Indian legal system is based on the enactments and interpretation of local customs and practices by the colonial rulers, while the Indian legal system was developed based on the Victorian morality that prevailed then 13 . Also, debates and discussions around the making of laws against Sati, widow remarriage, child marriage, the Age of Consent Bill, and many others were initiated during the colonial era, when the imperial rulers shaped the laws and policies. ...

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Envisaging Feminist Lawyering in the Indian Context
Codification, Macaulay and the Indian Penal Code: The Legacies and Modern Challenges of Criminal Law Reform
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  • January 2011