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The article considers the issue of correlation of the following criminal-law categories: criminal-law impact, pe-nal measures, criminal liability, other measures of criminal and legal nature. Having investigated them using the method of lexical analysis, by formulating his own definition of measures of criminal-legal nature, defining their signs and system, the author comes to the reasonable conclusion that the criminal law impact is repre-sented by many types, including penal law, implemented by means of measures of criminal-legal nature, en-shrined in the criminal law, law enforcement acts, etc. Measures of a criminal law are expressed by criminal liability and other measures of a criminal-legal nature, the specific features of which are their non-punitive na-ture and the absence of interrelation with criminal liability (with the rare exception of cases of their simultane-ous practical realization), which allows to distinguish them in the system by means of criminal-legal coercion.

The Interdisciplinary Program in Law and Religion and the Comparative and International Law Institute co-sponsored a lecture titled, "Criminal Law Reform: Ethical and Legal Changes in Austrian Society." In light of the recent terrorist activities in the European Union, the Austrian government has focused on hate speech legislation and hate crimes. Dr. Christian Pilnacek, Director General for Criminal Matters in the Federal Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Austria discussed recent Austrian legislation that criminalized hate speech that has a likelilhood of inciting violence. Following Pilnacek's presentation, Dr. Wolfgang Brandstetter, Federal Minister of Justice of the Republic of Austria, discussed how the Austrian government is reforming the penal law system. A summary of the event is available here.