Comparative law research aims to identify modern trends legal systems and to look for convergences and divergences.
A meaningful implementation of elements of foreign legal systems at the national level and the smooth realization of the objectives of international and supranational justice require a mutual understanding between legal systems that adhere to different traditions in their normative foundations
This course on “comparative criminal law” will provide the basic tools to use comparative criminal law within legal scholarship. Therefore the course will start with a short overview of general socio-legal and legal theoretical considerations of criminal justice and its role on the national, regional, and international level.
The second part of the PhD course on comparative criminal law will be dedicated to comparative criminal law not only as a research method within legal scholarship in crime control and criminal law, moreover it will focus also on “comparative criminal law” as a central research object itself.
The third part focuses on the methodological questions of basic comparative research in the field of crime control/criminal justice. In this part the focus lies on the practical application of comparative criminal law to the research by defining the aims and methods of a comparative research project in the field of criminal justice and crime control and to design a coherent research project.
Those three parts will be the point of discussion and analysis of the students’ doctoral projects.
Participants in the course must be admitted to a PhD program in law.
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Date of the course will be announced. Registration will open when the course approaches.
There is no tuition fee for this course.