Publications

This book is a much-needed Commentary on the Genocide Convention. It analyses and interprets the Convention thematically, thoroughly covering every article, drawing on the Convention's travaux préparatoires and subsequent developments in international law. The most complex and important provisions of the Convention, including the definitions of genocide and genocidal acts, have more than one...

What constitutes an intention to conmit a criminal offence has proven to be a notoriously difficult concept to define. The issue as to whether the accused intended the consequences of the...

Estonia introduced criminal liability of legal persons with the adoption of the new Penal Code of 2002. The Estonian courts and public prosecutors have applied the provisions extensively, but so...

On the 2nd and 3rd of June 2009, the conference on Monitoring and evaluation mechanisms in the field of EU judicial cooperation in criminal matters was held at the Faculty of Law, Maastricht...

The International Legal Studies (ILeS) of European scholars being collected in the present edition are developed versions of lectures in three languages given at academic occasions of the ELPIS...

Governments have often claimed that modern international terrorism cannot be handled adequately within the ordinary criminal justice system. Consequently criminal law had to be adapted to fight...

After a period of relative stagnation, the past few months witnessed the adoption of a plethora of legislative instruments under the third pillar. These instruments can be seen as the third wave...