The Limits of Criminal Law shines light from the outer edges of the criminal law in to better understand its core. From a framework of core principles, different borders are explored to test out where criminal law's normative or performative limits are, in particular, the borders of crime with tort, non-criminal enforcement, medical law, business regulation, administrative sanctions, counter-terrorism and intelligence law.The volume carefully juxtaposes and compares English and German law on each of these borders, drawing out underlying concepts and key comparative lessons. Each country offers insights beyond their own laws. This double perspective sharpens readers critical understanding of the criminal law, and at the same time produces insights that go beyond the perspective of one legal tradition.The book does not promote a single normative view of the limits of criminal law, but builds a detailed picture of the limits that exist now and why they exist now. This evidence-led approach is particularly important in an ever more interconnected world in which different perceptions of criminal law can lead to profound misunderstandings between countries. The Limits of Criminal Law builds picture of what shapes the criminal law, where those limits come from, and what might motivate legal systems to strain, ignore or strengthen those limits. Some of the most interesting insights come out of the comparison between German systematic approach and doctrinal limits with English laws focus on process and judgment on individual questions.

The Limits of Criminal Law shines light from the outer edges of the criminal law in to better understand its core. From a framework of core principles, different borders are explored to test out where criminal law's normative or performative limits are, in particular, the borders of crime with tort, non-criminal enforcement, medical law, business regulation, administrative sanctions, counter-terrorism and intelligence law.The volume carefully juxtaposes and compares English and German law on each of these borders, drawing out underlying concepts and key comparative lessons. Each country offers insights beyond their own laws. This double perspective sharpens readers' critical understanding of the criminal law, and at the same time produces insights that go beyond the perspective of one legal tradition.The book does not promote a single normative view of the limits of criminal law, but builds a detailed picture of the limits that exist now and why they exist now. This evidence-led approach is particularly important in an ever more interconnected world in which different perceptions of criminal law can lead to profound misunderstandings between countries. The Limits of Criminal Law builds picture of what shapes the criminal law, where those limits come from, and what might motivate legal systems to strain, ignore or strengthen those limits. Some of the most interesting insights come out of the comparison between German systematic approach and doctrinal limits with English law's focus on process and judgment on individual questions.

This commemorative publication is dedicated to Gerhard Fezer, the distinguished criminal trial law professor, in honor of his 70th birthday.

Dem philosophischen Neukantianismus wird gemeinhin ein starker Einfluss auf die zeitgenössische Rechtswissenschaft bescheinigt. Die Reihe der angeblichen Neukantianer im Strafrecht reicht von Gustav Radbruch bis zu Edmund Mezger, diejenige der als neukantianisch geprägt geltenden Lehrstücke von der Entdeckung der normativen Tatbestandsmerkmale über die Materialisierung des Rechtswidrigkeitsbegriffs bis zum normativen Schuldverständnis. Ungeklärt ist bislang jedoch, ob die Strafrechtler nur mit dem Neukantianismus assoziierte Begriffe verwendet oder ob sie darüber hinaus auch die Tiefenstruktur des philosophischen Neukantianismus rezipiert haben. Der Sammelband beantwortet diese Frage, indem er personen- mit sachbezogenen sowie wirkungsgeschichtlichen Analysen kombiniert und so genuin philosophische Einflüsse auf das Strafrechtsdenken der Zeit von primär innerdogmatischen Fragestellungen und Begründungstraditionen abschichtet. Auf diese Weise trägt er zur Erhellung der begründungstheoretischen Tiefenstruktur einer zentralen Epoche des neueren deutschen Strafrechtsdenkens bei.