THIS VOLUME EMERGES from the work that was done by the contributors towards the writing of the Law Commission’s final report on the law of homicide in England and Wales, Murder, Manslaughter and Infanticide. 1 A number of jurisdictions world-wide have been reviewing or revising their homicide laws, and each has engaged in comparative analysis. An important new contribution to this process can be made by compiling a detailed scholarly analysis of the law in a range of jurisdictions (both recently reformed and unreformed). In addition, Chapter 2 provides an overview of how the Law Commission for England and Wales justified its conclusions as to how the law.
