RIDP2020 Vol.91 / Subscription – Revue Internationale de Droit Penal / 2 Issues + Password

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On the first Issue:
In his Encyclical Letter on Care for our Common Home (Laudato Si’), Pope Francis stated that air pollution, deficient waste management, climate change, desertification of soils, deterioration of water quality and loss of biodiversity are some of the main manifestations of the environmental crisis produced by a scheme of technocratic power, characterized by a deviant anthropocentrism. In fact, the growing awareness of the need to protect the environment has been decisive for the recognition of the human right to a healthy environment, the legislative development of legal tools for environmental protection and the conclusion of international agreements on this matter. Criminal law has been part of this regulatory evolution on the assumption that, although it is not able to solve such complex problems alone, nonetheless it should not fail to address the violation of the essential legal interests at stake.

This volume brings together major contributions to the 7th AIDP Symposium for Young Penalists (Rome, 11-12 November 2019), organised by the AIDP Young Penalists Committee in collaboration with the Italian AIDP National Group and Luiss University, Rome. The conclusions of the Symposium were presented during the XXth International Congress of Penal Law in the session dedicated to ‘Corporate Criminal Law and Environmental Protection’.

On the second Issue:
This issue puts together the proceedings of the AIDP XX International Congress of Penal Law ‘Criminal Justice and Corporate Business’ held on 13th-16th November 2019, organised by the Italian National Group in collaboration with Luiss Guido Carli University. The Congress was the opportunity for over six hundred representatives of the AIDP national groups from all over the world to convene in Rome, Italy – a place that was last home to this meeting crucial for the life of the Association fifty years ago – to finalise the work of the International Colloquia.

As the title explains, the 2019 International Congress has focused on the relationship between criminal justice and corporate business, reflecting the work of the AIDP over the past five years on individual liability for business involvement in international crimes, food regulation and criminal law, the interplay between administrative and criminal enforcement, the prosecution of corporations for violations of international law and related jurisdictional issues.

The volume is divided into thematic sections and collects the major contributions to the XX International Congress, dealing with issues concerning corruption, financial markets and the role of criminal law; economic crime and the role of new technologies; corporate liability, business integrity and human rights protection; new perspectives related to the criminal justice and corporate business landscape. It also contains the resolutions adopted across the four International Colloquia preceding the XX international Congress.

The articles published in this issue testify to the lively and cross-cutting debate that took place during the numerous plenary and parallel sessions of the Congress and that involved representatives of academia, institutions, governments, the judiciary, and the corporate community.