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Purpose – The purpose of this article is to provide the reader with some information on the development of liability of legal persons for violations of international criminal law, its implementation practice in common and civil law countries as well as its perspectives of development in the European Union.

To date, "transnational criminal law" has been the dominant paradigm for explaining and mapping rules on corruption in the international legal literature. Transnational criminal law is presented as a system of law descending from multilateral crime control treaties or a field or order that emerges through international political processes of regime formation. Transnational criminal lawyers identify and describe cross-border legal rules, and seek to evaluate them against liberal norms of democratic governance and individual civil and political human rights. This Article details the limits of transnational criminal conceptions of "anticorruption" through a study of proposed changes to Australian laws on corporate foreign bribery. Drawing on primary and secondary documentary sources, domestic and international, it shows that the emerging antipodean rules are only partially transnational, as that term is understood in transnational criminal law theory. Likewise, multilateral "suppression conventions" and related soft laws are but one impetus for the proposed changes to Australian federal anticorruption legislation. Rather, as the transnational legal ordering literature suggests, a recursive process appears to be at work between international organizations and local legislators, as well as transnational non-state actors, both charities and businesses. This process is marked by moments of borrowing from (former) patrons, the US and the UK. However, it is also punctuated by themes of modernization, economic efficiency, and reputation. In addition, Australian anti-corruption activities may result not just in changes to national criminal law, but also in the development of "new" – and controversial – techniques of governance.

This collection of case stories illustrates the balance, continuity, and evolution in substantive criminal law doctrine in light of the social and political contexts in which those doctrines are perennially tested. These stories focus on the pre-litigation behavior of defendants, raising important moral and cultural questions about human nature and human society and how social norms get translated into workable legal doctrines. They survey the typical variety of doctrines addressed in a standard criminal law course, elucidating the classic themes of common law jurisprudence.

In Justice in Extreme Cases, Darryl Robinson argues that the encounter between criminal law theory and international criminal law (ICL) can be illuminating in two directions: criminal law theory can challenge and improve ICL, and conversely, ICL's novel puzzles can challenge and improve mainstream criminal law theory. Robinson recommends a 'coherentist' method for discussions of principles, justice and justification. Coherentism recognizes that prevailing understandings are fallible, contingent human constructs. This book will be a valuable resource to scholars and jurists in ICL, as well as scholars of criminal law theory and legal philosophy.

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?

Das Werk enthält die gesammelten Beiträge des 4. Symposiums junger Strafrechtswissenschaftlerinnen und Strafrechtswissenschaftler, das am 7. und 8. November 2014 in Göttingen stattfand.Das übergeordnete Thema ist die zunehmende Interdisziplinarität des Strafrechts, die eine Reaktion auf eine komplexer werdende Lebenswelt und die immense Vermehrung wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse sowohl außerhalb als auch innerhalb der Rechtswissenschaften darstellt. In diesem Sinne nehmen sich die Beiträge unterschiedlichen aktuellen und grundlegenden Aspekten des Zusammenspiels des Strafrechts mit den sonstigen nationalen und internationalen Rechtsgebieten sowie anderen Wissenschaften, wie der Neurobiologie, Mathematik, forensischen Brandforschung, Verhaltenspsychologie, Ökonomie, Kriminologie, Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft, Philosophie und Geschichtswissenschaft an.Mit Beiträgen von:Dr. Elias Bender, Alix Giraud, Dr. Alexander Heinze, Dr. Peter Kasiske, Kyriakos N. Kotsoglou, Jochen Link, Dr. Konstantina Papathanasiou, Dr. Ineke Pruin, Markus Wagner, Dr. Till Zimmermann

Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit § 3a ESchG, der neuen strafrechtlichen Regelung zur Präimplantationsdiagnostik.Eine Untersuchung der Norm lässt weitreichende Unzulänglichkeiten erkennen: Es bestehen Schwierigkeiten in der Auslegung der Tatbestandsmerkmale, dogmatische Unsicherheiten und Widersprüche im Verhältnis zu anderen Vorschriften zum vorgeburtlichen Lebensschutz.Es werden Vorschläge unterbreitet, inwieweit diese Schwächen behoben werden können. Die Vorschläge beziehen sich vorrangig auf eine neue gesetzliche Konzeption der Präimplantationsdiagnostik. Daneben wird sich aber im Hinblick auf die bestehenden gesetzlichen Vorgaben auch mit der zutreffenden Auslegung der geltenden Rechtslage beschäftigt. Hier findet jeweils eine inhaltliche Orientierung an den geltenden Normen zum vorgeburtlichen Lebensschutz statt, insbesondere an der Vorschrift zum medizinisch indizierten Schwangerschaftsabbruch