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Major Stages of Criminal Law Reform in Germany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2014

Albin Eser
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According to our programme, this session is to serve as a “general introduction” to our colloquium. Experience shows that assignments of this sort face two grave dangers: they are either confined to the trivial or they bite off more than they can chew. In order to avoid these pitfalls, I have chosen to present an historical review of the major stages of criminal law reform in Germany. Because Israel is also in the process of reforming its criminal law, it might be interesting for the Israeli participants to hear about the reform process in our country. In the course of my presentation I shall, of course, pay particular attention to those aspects of the law which will be dealt with during this conference.

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Israel Law Review , Volume 30 , Issue 1-2: Reform of Criminal Law , Spring Winter 1996 , pp. 28 - 35
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press and The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1996

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Prof. Dr.Dr.h.c., M.C.J., University of Freiburg, Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg, Germany.

References

1 For more details and sources on which the following presentation is based, see Eser, Albin, “A Century of Penal Legislation in Germany”, in Eser, A. and Thormundsson, J. (eds.), Old Ways and New Needs in Criminal Legislation, (Freiburg, 1989) 1–26 Google Scholar, with updates also in Eser, Albin, “Strafrechtsreform in Deutschland, mit Blick auf die polnischen Reformtendenzen”, in Eser, Albin, Kaiser, G. and Weigend, E. (eds.), Viertes deutsch-polnisches Kolloquium über Strafrecht und Kriminologie, (Baden-Baden, 1991) 47–86 Google Scholar.

2 For more details for these last developments, with updates to the reports cited supra in n. 1, cf. Eser, Albin, “Strafrechtsentwicklung in Deutschland seit der politischen Wende von 1989”, in Eser, A. and Kaiser, G. (eds.), Zweites deutsch-ungarisches Kolloquium über Strafrecht und Kriminologie, (Baden-Baden, 1995) 13–37 Google Scholar.