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A Modern Treatise on the Principle of Legality in Criminal Law (Hardcover, 2010 ed.)
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A Modern Treatise on the Principle of Legality in Criminal Law (Hardcover, 2010 ed.)
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Thepresentbookisbasedonthelecturesdeliveredbytheauthorinthepastfew
yearsaspartoftheCriminalLawcourseoftheFacultyofLawattheOnoAcademic
College. There has been little research on the principle of
legality in modern
criminallaw,althoughthisisoneofthemostancientlegalprinciplesofhuman
society. In recent generations there have been several attempts to
de?ne the
principleconclusively,butonlywithregardtosomeofitsaspects.
Nocompreh-
sivede?nitionoftheprincipleoflegalityhasbeenattemptedtodate.
Aconclusivede?nitionoftheprincipleoflegalityincriminallawrequiresboth
anaccurateinward-lookingde?nitionoftheprincipleitself,andanoutward-lo-
ingtreatmentofitsrelationwithcriminallawtheory.
Onlyacoherenttheorythat
includestheprincipleoflegalityasanintegralpartofcriminallawtheorycando
justicetotheprincipleoflegality.
Thisviewisconsistentwiththescienti?cconcept
oflaw,whichregardsthelawaspartofscience.
AModernTreatiseonthePrincipleofLegalityinCriminalLawisthereforea
scienti?ctreatiseononeofthefourprinciplesofthecriminallaw.
Thepresent
treatiseisdividedintosixparts,accordingtothescienti?cunderstandingofthe
principleoflegalityincriminallaw.
Chapter1explorestherelationbetweenthe
principleoflegalityandthegeneraltheoryofcriminallawinthecontextofthe
structureandthedevelopmentoftheprincipleoflegalityinhumansociety.
This chapter outlines the four secondary principles of the
principle of legality, and describesthemingeneralterms. Chapters
2-Thepresentbookisbasedonthelecturesdeliveredbytheauthorinthepastfew
yearsaspartoftheCriminalLawcourseoftheFacultyofLawattheOnoAcademic
College. There has been little research on the principle of
legality in modern
criminallaw,althoughthisisoneofthemostancientlegalprinciplesofhuman
society. In recent generations there have been several attempts to
de?ne the
principleconclusively,butonlywithregardtosomeofitsaspects.
Nocompreh-
sivede?nitionoftheprincipleoflegalityhasbeenattemptedtodate.
Aconclusivede?nitionoftheprincipleoflegalityincriminallawrequiresboth
anaccurateinward-lookingde?nitionoftheprincipleitself,andanoutward-lo-
ingtreatmentofitsrelationwithcriminallawtheory.
Onlyacoherenttheorythat
includestheprincipleoflegalityasanintegralpartofcriminallawtheorycando
justicetotheprincipleoflegality.
Thisviewisconsistentwiththescienti?cconcept
oflaw,whichregardsthelawaspartofscience.
AModernTreatiseonthePrincipleofLegalityinCriminalLawisthereforea
scienti?ctreatiseononeofthefourprinciplesofthecriminallaw.
Thepresent
treatiseisdividedintosixparts,accordingtothescienti?cunderstandingofthe
principleoflegalityincriminallaw.
Chapter1explorestherelationbetweenthe
principleoflegalityandthegeneraltheoryofcriminallawinthecontextofthe
structureandthedevelopmentoftheprincipleoflegalityinhumansociety.
This chapter outlines the four secondary principles of the
principle of legality, and describesthemingeneralterms. Chapters
2-5 discuss in detail each of the four secondary principles of the
principleoflegality. Chapter
2discussesthelegitimatesourcesofthecriminal norm,Chap.
3discussestheapplicabilityofthecriminalnormintime,Chap. 4
discussestheapplicabilityofthecriminalnorminplaceandChap.
5discussesthe interpretationofthecriminalnorm.
Eachofthefourchaptersconcludeswitha
discussionofthecon?ictoflawsissuesrelevanttothesecondaryprincipleunder
investigation. Finally,Chap.
6addressestheproblemofthecon?ictoflawswithin
thecon?ictsoflawsandroundsoutthediscussion. ix x Preface
IwishtothankOnoAcademicCollegeforsupportingthisproject,andespecially
DeanofthefacultyoflawandvicechairmanDudiSchwartzforhisstaunchsupport
onsomanyimportantoccasions. IthankGabrielLanyiforhiscommentsandAnke
SeyfriedofSpringerHeidelbergforguidingthepublicationofthebookfromits
inceptiontoitsconclusion.
Finally,Iwishtothankmywifeanddaughtersforthe
helpfuldiscussionsandsupporttheyofferedalongtheway.
KiryatOno,June2010 GabrielHallevy Contents 1
TheMeaningandStructureofthePrincipleofLegality inCriminalLaw ...1
1. 1 TheRoleofthePrincipleofLegalityintheCriminal LawTheory ...1 1.
1. 1 TheBasicStructureofCriminalLawTheory ...1 1. 1. 2
TheBasicStructureofthePrincipleofLegality inCriminalLaw ...5 1. 2
DevelopmentofthePrincipleofLegalityinCriminalLaw
andItsModernJusti?cations ...8 2
TheLegitimateSourcesoftheCriminalNorm ...15 2. 1
TheStructureoftheCriminalNormandItsIdenti?cation ...16 2. 1. 1
ValidConditionalClauses ...16 2. 1. 2 CriminalSanction ...17 2. 1.
3 Classi?cationofOffencesBasedonContent ...18 2. 2
TheLegalSourcesoftheCriminalNorm ...20 2. 2. 1 GeneralPrinciples
...20 2. 2. 2 LegalSources ...33 2. 3
Con?ictofLawsBasedonLegitimateSources oftheCriminalNorm ...46 3
ApplicabilityoftheCriminalNorminTime ...49 3. 1 BasicDistinctions
...49 3. 1. 1 DistinctionBetweenProceduralandSubstantive
CriminalNorms ...50 3. 1. 2 DistinctionBetweenRelevantPointsinTime
...51 3. 1. 3 DistinctionBetweenContinuous,Temporary,
andFragmentedCriminalNorms ...55 3. 1. 4
DistinctionBetweenMitigatingandAggravating CriminalNorms ...56 xi
xii Contents 3. 2 ApplicabilityoftheProceduralCriminalNorminTime
...58 3. 2. 1 TheGeneralRule ...58 3. 2. 2 ApplicationoftheRule
...61 3. 3 ApplicabilityinTimeoftheSubstantiveCriminalNorm ...67 3.
3. 1 TheGeneralRule ...67 3. 3. 2 ApplicationoftheRule ...71 3. 4
Con?ictofLawsBasedonApplicabilityoftheCriminal NorminTime ...78 4
TheApplicabilityoftheCriminalNorminPlace ...81 4. 1
TheBasicDistinctions ...81 4. 1. 1
DistinctionBetweenApplicabilityandJurisdiction inCriminalLaw ...
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