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1 History, Principles and Institutions -- 2 Harmonisation and Competence -- 3 Mutual Recognition: Prosecution, Jurisdiction and Trust in an 'Area' of Freedom, Security and Justice -- 4 Bodies, Offices and Agencies -- 5 Databases: Reconfiguring the Relationship between Security and Privacy -- 6 The External Dimension -- Conclusion: Is Criminal Law a Special Case in the EU Legal Order?

The Art of Legal Problem Solving: A Criminal Law Approach is a sophisticated skills book designed to help students develop the problem-solving techniques necessary for their legal careers. This succinct yet comprehensive book provides the perfect mix of general instruction and specific examples to encourage students to think about problems both in depth and broadly. It follows a clear roadmap presented in a logical progression, beginning with the fundamentals, fact finding and statutory interpretation before turning to the advanced areas of analysing and writing answers to problem questions. While written primarily for criminal law students, the skills imparted are generic and can be applied equally in any area of the law and in any jurisdiction. The Art of Legal Problem Solving is an indispensable work for law students who want to not only improve their problem-solving skills but master them.

The present article stipulates on various disputable issues of applying the general legal maxims on overcoming the conflict of lex posterior derogate priori and lex specialis derogate legi generali based on the empirical examples of contemporary Russian criminal law. The objective is to clear the peculiarities of operating the lex posterior and lex specialis maxims including, inter alia, through appealing to the doctrine and positive law in the aspect of correlation with some specific colnflict rules. For this purpose, the author turns to a number of techniques, ways and methods of legal phenomena studies, such as, particularly, system approach, ascend from abstract to specific, using the logic of standard and normative statements, conceptual and definition analysis, speculative experiment, legal and dogmatic approach, legal simulation method, law comparison method. The main conclusion of the research is formulated as follows: though the principles of lex specialis and lex posterior are generated by the legal doctrine as criteria for selecting one out of two conflicting options, the principle that a law governing a specific subject matter overrides a law governing only general matters finds a wider scope of application compared to the principle of priority of a new law over the old one. The situation is explained by the fact that lex specialis is deliberately used by the legislators to construct logical relationships of legal rules, while lex posterior does not perform a similar function

International crimes and universal jurisdiction / Win-chiat Lee State sovereignty as an obstacle to international criminal law / Kristen Hessler International criminal courts, the rule of law, and the prevention of harm : building justice in times of injustice / Leslie P. Francis and John G. Francis Criminalizing culture / Helen Stacy Identifying groups in genocide cases / Larry May Prosecuting corporations for international crimes : the role for domestic criminal law / Joanna Kyriakakis Post war environmental damage : a study in jus post bellum / Douglas Lackey On state self-defense and Guantanamo Bay / Steve Viner Politicizing human rights (using international law) / Anat Biletzki The justification of punishment in the international context / Deirdre Golash Political reconciliation and international criminal trials / Colleen Murphy

Contents -- List of Contributors -- The Shifting Meaning of Legal Certainty -- 1 The Shifting Meaning of Legal Certainty -- 2 Chapters -- Part I: Perspectives from Private Law -- Comments on Legal Certainty from the Perspective of European, Austrian and Japanese Private Law -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Notion of Legal Certainty in General and in Private Law in Particular -- 3 Legal Certainty Discussed with the Example of EU Private Law -- 4 Legal Certainty Discussed with the Example of Austrian Private Law -- 5 Legal Certainty Discussed with the Example of Japanese Private Law

Hard and soft law developed by international and regional organizations, transgovernmental networks, and international courts increasingly shape rules, procedures, and practices governing criminalization, policing, prosecution, and punishment. This dynamic calls into question traditional approaches that study criminal justice from a predominantly national perspective, or that dichotomize the study of international from national criminal law. Building on socio-legal theories of transnational legal ordering, this book develops a new approach for studying the interaction between international and domestic criminal law and practice. Distinguished scholars from different disciplines apply this approach in ten case studies of transnational legal ordering that address transnational crimes such as money laundering, corruption, and human trafficking, international crimes such as mass atrocities, and human rights abuses in law enforcement. The book provides a comprehensive treatment of the changing transnational nature of criminal justice policymaking and practice in today's globalized world.

What place, if any, ought cultural considerations have when we blame and punish in the criminal law? Bringing together political and legal theorists, this text offers original and diverse discussions that go to the heart of both legal and political debates about multiculturalism, human agency, and responsibility.