Author: Kevin Jon Heller
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804777292
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 669
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This handbook explores criminal law systems from around the world, with the express aim of stimulating comparison and discussion. General principles of criminal liability receive prominent coverage in each essay—including discussions of rationales for punishment, the role and design of criminal codes, the general structure of criminal liability, accounts of mens rea, and the rights that criminal law is designed to protect—before the authors turn to more specific offenses like homicide, theft, sexual offenses, victimless crimes, and terrorism. This key reference covers all of the world's major legal systems—common, civil, Asian, and Islamic law traditions—with essays on sixteen countries on six different continents. The introduction places each country within traditional distinctions among legal systems and explores noteworthy similarities and differences among the countries covered, providing an ideal entry into the fascinating range of criminal law systems in use the world over.
Author: Francisco Muñoz Conde
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788498769210
Category : Education
Languages : es
Pages : 647
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Author: Wilhelm Sauer
Publisher: Ediciones Olejnik
ISBN: 956392617X
Category : Law
Languages : es
Pages : 360
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El Derecho Penal tiene la tarea de crear los principios y las reglas según las cuales el delito ha de ser tratado, a tenor de las exigencias estatales, culturales, sociales y éticas. El delito es una aparición, nunca extirpada completamente, de la vida social de todos los pueblos y de todas las épocas; ello exige el tratamiento y la lucha según determinadas líneas de orientación sobre cuyo contenido esencial los modernos Estados civilizados están de acuerdo, a pesar de las desviaciones en las formaciones más recientes. El tratamiento se realizaba antes únicamente por medio de la punición; hoy se han añadido aún a la pena otros numerosos medios de tratamiento: Prevención y seguridad, corrección y educación, compensación y reparación. Por ello ya no es acertada la expresión de Derecho Penal. Ella expresa, además, únicamente, las consecuencias, una consecuencia, mientras ocupa un espacio incomparablemente mayor su presupuesto: El delito. Más acertada es la denominación más antigua: Derecho Criminal. No se denomina al Derecho privado (contrato y delito) Derecho de la reparación del daño; y la ciencia médica se ocupa ante todo de la enfermedad mientras la medicina y otros tratamientos están en segunda línea. Wilhelm Sauer
Author: Mercedes Pérez Manzano
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319638653
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 237
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This book examines the simultaneous protection of fundamental rights by various norms and jurisdictional organs, focussing on the multilevel protection of the principle of legality in Criminal Law.Written by accredited specialists in criminal law, constitutional law, international public law, and the philosophy of law, the majority of them ex-Counsels of the Spanish Constitutional Court, it addresses various manifestations of the principle of legality: the requirement of precision, the judicial subjection to law and the prohibition of bis in idem. It does so not only from a theoretical perspective, but also through a comparative study of the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the Court of Justice of the European Union and state constitutional courts. This practical approach characterizes the book, which culminates in a detailed analysis of the relevant ECtHR Judgement Del Río Prada v. Spain on the retroactivity of unfavourable jurisprudence."Multilevel protection of the principle of legality in Criminal Law" is a useful instrument of reflection for scholars of both the principle of criminal legality and the problems that arise from the concurrency of protective jurisdictions of human rights.
Author: Kai Ambos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108483399
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 507
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A comparative and collaborative study of the foundational principles and concepts that underpin different domestic systems of criminal law.
Author: Enrique Cury Urzúa
Publisher: Ediciones UC
ISBN: 9561425149
Category : Law
Languages : es
Pages : 741
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Este primer tomo de la undécima edición de la obra cumbre del profesor Enrique Cury Urzúa incluye los capítulos destinados al estudio de las cuestiones introductorias de la Parte General del Derecho penal, la teoría de la ley penal y, dentro de la teoría del delito, aquellos que tratan de la acción, tipicidad,antijuridicidad y culpabilidad, todos revisados, actualizados y preservados en medios digitales por el autor. La revisión y adecuación del texto a las reformas introducidas en la legislación chilena desde noviembre de 2012 a octubre de 2019 son obra de dos de sus más cercanos discípulos, Claudio Feller y María Elena Santibáñez, quienes lo complementan con algunas notas del editor. Este tomo incorpora el análisis del estado de necesidad, tanto justificante como exculpante, a partir del texto del artículo 10, Nº 11 del Código penal chileno, agregado por la Ley 20.480, publicada el 18 de diciembre de 2010. También contiene la posición adoptada por el profesor Cury, en la etapa final de su vida, en algunos aspectos de la teoría del delito. Alumnos, académicos y aplicadores del Derecho penal encontrarán en esta edición un apoyo sólido para el desempeño de sus respectivas actividades pues es el fruto de más de cuatro décadas de trabajo académico, de la más alta excelencia, realizado por el profesor Cury, enriquecido por la perspectiva orientada a la solución de casos que le dio la función de Ministro de la Corte Suprema que desempeñó durante ocho años.
Author: Carlos Jiménez Piernas
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 9004154264
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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This work offers a Spanish perspective on contemporary practice in international law and European Community law by genuine practitioners such as registrars, judges and magistrates serving on national and international courts, as well as advocates practicing in these courts, senior international officials, government advisers and academics. In five parts this book deals with the practice in international courts; practice in international organizations; the European Community practice and; Spanish practice in matters of public and private international law. The last part contains an article on evidence in international practice and a general overview for further research. The book offers a very useful insight in matters otherwise available in Spanish, such as the applications against Spain lodged with the European Court of Human Rights, a comparison between the Spanish Constitutional Court and the Court of Justice of the European Communities, public international law before Spanish domestic courts and the Spanish practice on investment treaties.
Author: Markus D Dubber
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191654604
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1294
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The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law reflects the continued transformation of criminal law into a global discipline, providing scholars with a comprehensive international resource, a common point of entry into cutting edge contemporary research and a snapshot of the state and scope of the field. To this end, the Handbook takes a broad approach to its subject matter, disciplinarily, geographically, and systematically. Its contributors include current and future research leaders representing a variety of legal systems, methodologies, areas of expertise, and research agendas. The Handbook is divided into four parts: Approaches & Methods (I), Systems & Methods (II), Aspects & Issues (III), and Contexts & Comparisons (IV). Part I includes essays exploring various methodological approaches to criminal law (such as criminology, feminist studies, and history). Part II provides an overview of systems or models of criminal law, laying the foundation for further inquiry into specific conceptions of criminal law as well as for comparative analysis (such as Islamic, Marxist, and military law). Part III covers the three aspects of the penal process: the definition of norms and principles of liability (substantive criminal law), along with a less detailed treatment of the imposition of norms (criminal procedure) and the infliction of sanctions (prison law). Contributors consider the basic topics traditionally addressed in scholarship on the general and special parts of the substantive criminal law (such as jurisdiction, mens rea, justifications, and excuses). Part IV places criminal law in context, both domestically and transnationally, by exploring the contrasts between criminal law and other species of law and state power and by investigating criminal law's place in the projects of comparative law, transnational, and international law.
Author: Carsten Stahn
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004166556
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 793
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The International Criminal Court is at a crossroads. In 1998, the Court was still a fiction. A decade later, it has become operational and faces its first challenges as a judicial institution. This volume examines this transition. It analyses the first jurisprudence and policies of the Court. It provides a systematic survey of the emerging law and practice in four main areas: the relationship of the Court to domestic jurisdictions, prosecutorial policy and practice, the treatment of the Courta (TM)s applicable law and the shaping of its procedure. It revisits major themes, such as jurisdiction, complementarity, cooperation, prosecutorial discretion, modes of liability, pre-trial, trial and appeals procedure and the treatment of victims and witnesses, as well as their criticisms. It also explores some of challenges and potential avenues for future reform.
Author: Kai Ambos
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191648868
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Since the adoption of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in 1998, international criminal law has rapidly grown in importance. This three-volume Treatise on International Criminal Law presents a foundational, systematic, consistent and comprehensive analysis of international criminal law. Taking into account the scholarly literature, not only sources written in English but also in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish, the book draws on the author's extensive academic and practical work in international criminal law. This first volume addresses the foundations of international criminal law and the emerging general principles. It examines the history of the discipline and the concepts behind it. Looking at the sources of international criminal law, the book then moves to investigate the general structure of crime in international criminal law, and to address in detail the role played by the concept of individual criminal responsibility. The subjective requirements of criminal responsibility are examined, and also those defences that exclude such responsibility. The full three-volume treatise will address the entirety of international criminal law, re-stating and re-examining the fundamental principles upon which it rests, the manner it is enacted, and the key issues that are shaping its future. It will be essential reading for practitioners, scholars, and students of international criminal law alike.
