Revisiting Legal Interests and Public Goods in Criminal Law
- Start date:
- 22 June 2023
- Duration:
- 2 days
- Legal area:
- Criminology, Straf(proces)recht
- Course:
- Conference
- Accreditations
- NOVA:
- 10
About the conference
Leiden University organizes a two-day conference titled ‘Criminalisation and its Limits: Revisiting Public Goods and Legal Interests in Domestic and Transnational Criminal Law’, offering a venue for criminal law scholars and practitioners to exchange thoughts, ideas and experiences on these subject matters.
The aim of the conference is to clarify the meaning and definition of public goods and legal interests (Rechtsgüter) in criminal law, and explore the connections between these two concepts, and – among other issues – their relationship to the theory of harm (e.g. Mill, Feinberg). Although both concepts stem from the premise that society should consider protecting certain goods or interests by means of criminal law, they seem to differ in whether these goods should be of an individual or collective nature. Given their pivotal role in imposing specific normative perspectives on criminal law, it is necessary to improve our understanding of the contemporary meaning of public goods and legal interests, in order to critically analyze and circumscribe the proper scope of criminal law.
The theme of the conference will be scrutinized from three angles – national criminal law, EU criminal law, and international criminal law – and it will be examined from a general perspective as well as in relation to specific areas of crime, and alternately in plenary sessions and in parallel discussion groups.
The organizing committee
- Prof. Jannemieke Ouwerkerk (Leiden University)
- Prof. Jeroen ten Voorde (Leiden University)
- Konstantinos Zoumpoulakis (Leiden University)
- Prof. Jacob Öberg (University of Southern Denmark)
Target audience
Legal scholars and practitioners.
Remote attendance
Unfortunately, remote attendance is not available for this conference.
Funding
The conference is funded by the Leiden University Fund (LUF), the Department of Criminal Law of Leiden Law School and Brill Publishers.
Do you have any questions?
We will gladly answer them.
E-mail: pao@law.leidenuniv.nl
Phone: +3171 527 8666
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Conference day 1
Thursday 22 June 2023
| 09:00 | Registration |
| 09:30 | Welcome and Opening of the Conference |
| 09:45 | Keynote speech Prof. Nina Peršak Scientific Director, Institute for Criminal-Law Ethics and Criminology (Ljubljana); Full Professor of Law, University of Maribor |
| 10:30 | Coffee break |
| 11.00 | Session I: Legal interests and public goods in contemporary domestic criminal law Speakers:
Moderator: |
| 12:30 | Lunch break (KOG Restaurant) |
| 14:00 | Session II: Legal interests and public goods in EU and international criminal law Speakers:
Moderator: |
| 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 | Roundtable: Democracy, rule of law and the role of criminal law Speakers:
Moderator: |
| 17:30 | End of conference day 1 / Drink Reception |
| 19:30 | Conference Dinner (Restaurant Wielinga) |
Conference day 2
Friday 23 June 2023
| 09:30 | Coffee and welcome |
| 10:00 |
Session III: Legal interests and public goods in national and transnational law-making: Practitioner's views
Moderator: prof. Jannemieke Ouwerkerk (Leiden University) |
| 10:45 | Coffee break / Dividing participants into discussion groups |
| 11:00 |
Parallel discussion groups - Round I
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| 12:30 | Lunch break (Restaurant Het Prentenkabinet) |
| 13:30 |
Parallel discussion groups - Round II
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| 15:00 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 |
Closing session: What's the future of the concept of legal interests in criminal law and what it means for our research agenda? |
| 16:30 | End of the conference |
Kamerlingh Onnes Gebouw
Steenschuur 25, 2311 ES LEIDEN
| € 70,- | (excl. VAT) regular fee |
| € 20,- | (excl. VAT) reduced fee for PhD candidates and students |
| Fee is including coffee/tea, lunch on both days, conference materials, and drinks reception on Thursday 22 June 2023 | |
| € 60,- | Optional dinner on Thursday 22 June 2023 |
Contact details
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By phone:
+31 (0) 71-5278666
By mail:
pao@law.leidenuniv.nl