Jurisdiction and the Ambit of the Criminal Law

ISBN-13: 9780199245390 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 416 str.

Michael Hirst

Opis

This important new work examines fundamental, but hitherto neglected, issues of national criminal law. Where and to whom does that law apply? When can domestic law apply to conduct that takes place abroad? The author examines the territorial and extraterritorial application of the criminal law, identifying defects, lacunae and historical accidents, and suggests possible reforms.

Recenzje

Michael Hirst deserves the warmest congratulations for a work of first-rate scholarship written in admirably uncluttered language. Jurisdiction and the Ambit of the Criminal Law is concise and commanding in its exposition, trustworthy in its analysis, and astoundingly thorough. It provides a wealth of information both useful and, at times, exquisitely arcane, and its salutary emphasis on ambit as a substantive issue, an element of the actus reus, is alone enough to make it worth the money.

O autorze

Michael Hirst is Professor of Criminal Justice, De Montfort University, Leicester