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The Law and Ethics of Entrapment: Definition, Permissibility, and Implications

with D. J. Hill, S. K. McLeod, and T. Yusari Khaliliyeh

Under contract (expected to appear: 2026)

Oxford University Press, Oxford Legal Philosophy Series

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This book is a legal and ethical study of state entrapment: that is, entrapment by law-enforcement agents or their deputies. It approaches entrapment via three questions: definition (What makes an act one of entrapment?), permissibility (Under what conditions, if any, is entrapment permissible?), and implications (When someone has been entrapped, what remedy, if any, is appropriate? More broadly, how should the law respond?). It explains these questions, looks at how the law and scholars have answered them, gives our answers to them, and is structured according to them. It treats these questions as distinct, and that of definition as prior (in a sense that it clarifies) to the others. The methodology deployed combines applied analytical philosophy with approaches to comparative legal studies that are predominantly analytical and historical. The main focus, in terms of scope, is upon common-law jurisdictions in the Anglophone world.