Criminal law and ethics - (conference in person on November 17 and 18, 2022 in Metz) - Université de Lorraine - registration
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If criminal law and ethics are naturally presented as two normative fields that are not easily compatible, they nevertheless share strong links. In particular, they are linked to protected values, values that are sometimes in conflict. Thus, criminal law has an ethical dimension. Important points of convergence bring these two fields together to the point that they seem to compose together. One thinks of the multiple incursions of ethics in criminal business law, in criminal health law or in criminal environmental law. Moreover, criminal law is going through an axiological crisis. Can ethical reflection - which proposes to question the rationality of criminal law and requires a reflection on right action, which sometimes induces a tension between the legal and the good - allow us to overcome this crisis? Is ethics likely to enlighten and favour the interpretation of the rule of criminal law by the ideological diversity it mobilizes? Does ethics then present itself as a guide for the legislator? An aid in determining the content of offences or their justification? A support for the judge's reflection in the arbitration between protected social values? Does professional ethics guide the attitude of certain legal professionals (magistrates, lawyers, SPIP, etc.) or those subject to criminal law (doctors, companies, etc.)?
This event aims to identify the contours of the relationship between these two normative fields in order to measure the contributions and limits of their interactions both in substantive criminal law and in criminal procedure.
Program (November 17 and 18, 2022) - pdf of 8 pages
Registration
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