In 2025, Markus D. Dubber published the essay “New Legal Science in the Dual Penal State: Critical Analysis of Law and the Legitimacy of State Power” in the Bergen Journal of Criminal Law & Criminal Justice. From its introduction:
New Legal Science is an approach to the study of law that aims to push legal discourse beyond its traditional parochialism by bridging the divide between common law and civil law systems, marked by the abandonment of the project of ‘legal science’ in the former and its persistence in the latter. Thus reconceived, the study of law would allow us to frame and face fundamental issues confronting all modern legal systems as such, most importantly the legitimacy of state power through ‘law.’
The journal has now published a symposium issue (14:1) on Professor Dubber's article. Here is the TOC:
Introduction
Íñigo Ortiz de Urbina
The Coexistence of Parallel Worlds of Criminal Law Studies in the Face of the Development of the Dual Penal State
Anna Blachnio-Parzych
On Markus Dubber’s New Legal Science: Promises and Limits from a Feminist Perspective
Julieta Di Corleto
What is Left of Legal Science?
Aya Gruber
New Legal Science or International Legal Science?
Eric Hilgendorf
Can the New Legal Science Be Truly Universal?
Stefano Manacorda
A New Legal Science?
Martin Mindestrømmen
Towards a New Legal Science
Kimmo Nuotio
New Legal Science in the Post-Colony
Abhinav Sekhri
A New Legal Science Instead of an Old Parochial and Uncritical Criminal Law Science?
Adriano Teixeira
The Future of Criminal Law as a Global Discipline: The Liberal Project, the Persistence of the Penal Paradox, and the Role of Legal Scientists
Markus D. Dubber
--Dan Ernst
