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

About Barry Wright

Wing-Cheong Chan is an associate professor of law and Amaladass Fellow for Criminal Law at the National University of Singapore. He specialises in criminal law and family law and has written extensively in these areas. He is co-author (with Neil Morgan and Stanley Yeo) of Criminal Law in Malaysia and Singapore (LexisNexis 2007) and has edited two books on criminal law: Fundamental Principles of Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (LexisNexis 2005); and Support for Victims of Crime in Asia (Routledge 2007). Barry Wright is a professor of law history and criminology at Carleton University Canada. He specializes in legal history criminal and constitutional law and legal and political theory. He has published widely on colonial legal history focusing on Canadian and Australian comparisons and is editor of a multi-volume collaborative project Canadian State Trials that examines political trials and the administration of national security measures in Canadian history (University of Toronto Press-Volume One 1608-1837 published 1996; Volume Two 1837-39 published 2002; Volume Three 1840-1914 published 2009). He is co-author (with Patrick Fitzgerald and Vincent Kazmierski) of Looking at Law: Canada's Legal System 6th edition (LexisNexis-Butterworths 2010). Stanley Yeo is a professor of law at the National University of Singapore. He is an internationally renowned comparative law scholar who has studied the criminal laws of various jurisdictions for more than twenty years. He has authored several books on criminal law including Criminal Law in Malaysia and Singapore (with Wing-Cheong Chan and Neil Morgan); Fault in Homicide (Federation Press 1996 - a treatise on culpable homicide in Australia England and India); and Unrestrained Killings and the Law (Oxford University Press Delhi 1998 - a treatise on provocation and exceeding private defence in Australia England and India). He has also been a regular contributor of articles to the Journal of the Indian Law Institute the premier Indian legal journal.