The administration of European and transnational criminal justice as a challenge for a modern criminal law dogmatics

Abstract

The current legal-criminal discussion is characterized by the slow but sure loss of
importance of purely national criminal law discourses, in the face of the growing
importance of the elaborations of European and international criminal law; here, it is fair to say, is where the question arises about what will happen in the future with the
dogmatics of German criminal law and its long tradition, especially taking that in Germany
itself the importance of large theoretical buildings has diminished. Furthermore, given that
it is not possible to foresee, if and / or when the member states of the European Union will
be united for the creation of a directly applicable supranational “European criminal law”,
which at least partially replaces the national criminal law, it is to foresee that this theoretical
elevation continues, although it will have to adapt to new developments. In any case, the
author considers that, in the future, criminal law theory will have to be made of criminal law
dogmatics.