A Modern Treatise on the Principle of Legality in Criminal Law

A Modern Treatise on the Principle of Legality in Criminal Law

von: Gabriel Hallevy

Springer-Verlag, 2010

ISBN: 9783642137143 , 199 Seiten

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A Modern Treatise on the Principle of Legality in Criminal Law


 

A Modern Treatise on the Principle of Legality in Criminal Law

3

Preface

9

Contents

11

List of Figures

15

List of Tables

17

Chapter 1: The Meaning and Structure of the Principle of Legality in Criminal Law

19

1.1 The Role of the Principle of Legality in the Criminal Law Theory

19

1.1.1 The Basic Structure of Criminal Law Theory

19

1.1.2 The Basic Structure of the Principle of Legality in Criminal Law

23

1.2 Development of the Principle of Legality in Criminal Law and Its Modern Justifications

26

Chapter 2: The Legitimate Sources of the Criminal Norm

33

2.1 The Structure of the Criminal Norm and Its Identification

34

2.1.1 Valid Conditional Clauses

34

2.1.2 Criminal Sanction

35

2.1.3 Classification of Offences Based on Content

36

2.1.3.1 Classification According to Social Interest

36

2.1.3.2 Classification According to Criminal Sanction

37

2.2 The Legal Sources of the Criminal Norm

38

2.2.1 General Principles

38

2.2.1.1 Social Representation, Social Reflection, and Social Consensus

39

2.2.1.2 Offences of mala in se and mala prohibita

40

2.2.1.3 Formal Publicity of the Criminal Norm

44

2.2.1.4 The Mistake of Law Defense in the Modern Criminal Law

45

2.2.2 Legal Sources

51

2.2.2.1 The Constitution

51

2.2.2.2 Legislation

53

2.2.2.3 Regulations

55

2.2.2.4 Judicial Decisions

57

2.2.2.5 International Custom and State Practice, International Covenants, and International Judicial Decisions

60

2.2.2.6 Supranational and Federal Sources

63

2.2.2.7 Agreements, Organizational Policy, and Disciplinary Norms

64

2.3 Conflict of Laws Based on Legitimate Sources of the Criminal Norm

64

Chapter 3: Applicability of the Criminal Norm in Time

66

3.1 Basic Distinctions

66

3.1.1 Distinction Between Procedural and Substantive Criminal Norms

67

3.1.2 Distinction Between Relevant Points in Time

68

3.1.3 Distinction Between Continuous, Temporary, and Fragmented Criminal Norms

72

3.1.4 Distinction Between Mitigating and Aggravating Criminal Norms

73

3.2 Applicability of the Procedural Criminal Norm in Time

75

3.2.1 The General Rule

75

3.2.2 Application of the Rule

78

3.3 Applicability in Time of the Substantive Criminal Norm

84

3.3.1 The General Rule

84

3.3.2 Application of the Rule

88

3.4 Conflict of Laws Based on Applicability of the Criminal Norm in Time

95

Chapter 4: The Applicability of the Criminal Norm in Place

98

4.1 The Basic Distinctions

98

4.1.1 Distinction Between Applicability and Jurisdiction in Criminal Law

99

4.1.2 Distinction Between Procedural and Substantive Criminal Norms in Different Legal Systems

100

4.1.3 Distinction Between Domestic and Foreign Criminal Norms and Criminal Events

103

4.1.4 Distinction Between Locally Restricted and Not Restricted Criminal Norms

106

4.1.5 Distinction Between the Relevant Factors Connecting the Criminal Event with the Criminal Norm

107

4.2 Applicability of the Procedural Criminal Norm in Place

109

4.2.1 The General Rule

109

4.2.2 Application of the Rule

112

4.3 Applicability of the Substantive Criminal Norm in Place

114

4.3.1 The General Rule

114

4.3.2 The Territorial Application of the General Rule

117

4.3.2.1 The Senior Status of Territoriality

117

4.3.2.2 Subjective and Objective Territoriality

118

4.3.2.3 Constructive and De facto Territoriality

119

4.3.2.4 Boundaries of Territoriality in Land, Sea, Airspace, Outer Space, and Transport Crafts

130

4.3.3 Extraterritorial Application of the General Rule

135

4.3.3.1 General Interests of Extraterritoriality

135

4.3.3.2 Extraterritorial Protective Applicability

137

4.3.3.3 Extraterritorial Passive Personality Applicability

140

4.3.3.4 Extraterritorial Active Personality Applicability

142

4.3.3.5 Extraterritorial Universal Applicability

144

4.4 Conflict of Laws Based on the Applicability of the Criminal Norm in Place

146

4.4.1 The General Rule

146

4.4.2 International Cooperation and the Extraterritorial Vicarious Applicability

148

Chapter 5: Interpretation of the Criminal Norm

150

5.1 Structure of Interpretation of the Criminal Norm

150

5.2 Rules of Formulation of the Criminal Norm

152

5.2.1 Generality

152

5.2.2 Feasibility

154

5.2.3 Clarity and Precision

155

5.2.4 Relevance of Non-Criminal Norms

158

5.3 Rules of Application of the Criminal Norm

160

5.3.1 Applicability of the General Principles of Criminal Law

161

5.3.2 Specific and General Criminal Norms

162

5.3.3 Analogy

164

5.3.4 Strict and Purposive Interpretations

166

5.3.5 Assisting Legal Measures for Revealing the Legal Logic (Ratio Legis) Through the Purposive Interpretation

169

5.3.5.1 Legal History of the Criminal Norm

170

5.3.5.2 Titles of the Criminal Norm

171

5.3.5.3 Various Meanings of Legal Terms Separately and in the Context of the Criminal Norm

172

5.3.5.4 Ejusdem Generis

173

5.3.5.5 Expressio Unius Est Exclusio Alterius

173

5.3.5.6 Errors in the Verbal Formulation of the Criminal Norm

175

5.3.5.7 Lacuna Juris

175

5.3.6 Mitigating Interpretation

177

5.4 Conflict of Laws Based on the Interpretation of the Criminal Norm

180

Chapter 6: The Conflict of Laws Within the Conflicts of Laws in the Principle of Legality

182

Cases

186

Anglo-American Cases

186

German Cases

201

European Cases

203

International Cases

204

Bibliography

205

Index

213