19. Polish-Austrian Seminar on Criminal Law
Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw
Faculty of Law, University of Salzburg
Methods of the Criminal Law Interpretation
Thursday, April 26th
9.00–12.00
Session “General rules of interpretation”
(Conference Room of the Faculty – s. 209, CI I)
Chair: prof. Eleonora Zielińska
Ulrich Palma
Standard methods of interpretation (including the questions of a hierarchy, typus and
flexible system)
Mag. Krzysztof Szczucki
Constitutional norms context in criminal law
Marcus Sonnberger
“Unity of the legal system” (“Einheit der Rechtsordnung”) and criminal law
Laura Christin Quehenberger
The limits of legal interpretation: doing politics?
12.00
Lunch
16.00–18.00
Session “Fundamental principles of criminal law” (s. 209, CI I)
(Conference Room of the Faculty – s. 209, CI I)
Chair: Prof. Kurt Schmoller
Julia Katharina Pleiel
Limits of the “nulla poena sine lege” principle
Jakub Majcherek
The significance of the “nulla poena sine lege” principle
Marek Żukowski
The Criminal law as a limit of the right to privacy – the interpretation of the European
Convention on Human Rights in judgments of ECHR
Martha Harreiter
Dealing with equivalent legal characteristics in criminal law
Monday April 30th
9.00
Meeting in the Centre of Electronic Surveillance
11.00–13.00
Session “Dogmatic structures in the light of principles of interpretation”
(Conference Room of the Faculty – s. 209, CI I)
Chair: Dr Michał Królikowski
Prof. Kurt Schmoller
Interpretation of “causing a result” in criminal law
Mag. Brigitte Schuller
Interpretation of the principle of guilt with regard to fully drunk persons
Kazimierz Ujazdowski
Does lex sportiva change the way of interpretation of penal regulations?
Mag. Nikodem Rycko
Interpretation of the notion of "organised group" with regard to the forms of committing
an offence in Polish criminal law
Jan Chmielewski
How to interprete “crime scene” in the internet crimes?
13.00
Lunch
16.00–18.00
Session “Interpretation of the norms of the criminal proceedings”
(Conference Room of the Faculty – s. 209, CI I)
Chair: Prof. Otto Lagodny
Prof. Piotr Kruszyński
“In dubio pro reo” as a fundamental principle of the criminal proceedings
René Koplenig
“In dubio pro reo” and “in dubio pro libertate” as a rule of interpretation?
Dr. Nina Marlene Schallmoser
Power to interpret: The relation between courts dealing with the same legal problem
(e. g. Constitutional Court and Supreme Court)
Mag. Mateusz Zreda
Legal aid in criminal proceedings in international courts decisions
Tuesday May 1st
10.00–12.00
Session “Methods of interpretation in the international criminal law”
(Conference Room of the Faculty – s. 209, CI I)
Chair: Doc. dr Anna Walczak-Żochowska
Prof. Otto Lagodny
The European Court of Justice and its way of interpretation
Dr Michał Królikowski
Interpretation of international criminal law in its subregimes
Raphael Albert
The International Criminal Court and its way of interpretation
Lukas Breineder
Interpretation of international treaties or conventions