Crisis of the Criminal Law in the Democratic Constitutional State

Eduardo Demetrio Crespo (Solothurn, 1970) is Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Toledo (Spain). His work, partly conducted at the Universities of Cologne, Cambridge, and European University Institute of Florence, includes publications on Sentencing and Philosophy of Punishment, General Theory of Crime and Economic Criminal Law. His main books are: Prevencion general e individualizacion judicial de la pena (1999), La tentativa en la autoria mediata y en la actio libera in causa (2003), Responsabilidad penal por omision del empresario (2009), Fragmentos sobre Neurociencias y Derecho penal (2017) and El Derecho penal del Estado de Derecho entre el espiritu de nuestro tiempo y la Constitucion (2020). He is currently focused on interdisciplinary research between Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence and Criminal Law. Alfonso Garcia Figueroa (Madrid, 1968) is full Professor of Legal Philosophy at the Faculty of Law of the University of Castilla-La Mancha at Toledo (Spain). His research, partly undertaken at the Universities of Catania, Oxford and Kiel, includes works on legal theory, legal argumentation, political philosophy and philosophy of sport. He has held seminars at High Courts in Mexico, Brazil, El Salvador and Peru and he has also collaborated on a regular basis as an ethics expert with the Research Executive Agency of the European Commission (REA) at Brussels. His main books are: Criaturas de la moralidad (Madrid, 2009), Pleitos divinos (Lima, 2014) and Moral de victoria. Una filosofia del deporte (Barcelona, 2021). Gema Marcilla Cordoba is a Professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, since 2007. She graduated from the School of Law (1995), Specialist in Constitutional Law and Political Science (CEPC, 1998), and Doctor in Law (2003). She is the author of the publication Legislative Reasonableness (CEPC, 2005). She has published in legal sciences specialized and prestigious journals and editorials. For instance, "Professional ethical codes and Ethical codes for the exercise of public office" (ACFS, 2019); "Proportionality in Lawmaking" (Springer, 2019); "Criminal Garantism and Sexual Offenses" (Palestra, 2020). She has completed two research fellowships in Germany (Max-Planck Institut in Heidelberg) and two in England, at the University of Oxford and a short one at the University of Birmingham (2018). She has lectured in face-to-face and online postgraduate courses in Spanish and Latin American universities.

Preface.- Part I: Legitimacy of Punishment in the Democratic Constitutional State.- Is it possible to limit the penal intervention in the 21st century?.- Review on Retribution as Punishment Purpose.- Crises of the ultima ratio Principle shall we resume the Constitutional Criminal Law Guidance?.- Enforced Disappearance: A precedent of the Enemy Criminal Law.- Part II: Crisis of Warranty Thinking in the Democratic Constitutional State and Criminal Law.- Criminal Law and Legal Theory: Not Just Legal Dogmatics, But Never Without it.- The Populist Traces of Punitive Feminism.- Harm, offense, and the Hate Speech.- For a feminist and Guarantism-based Methodology in the Criminal Protection of Sexual Freedom.- Legal Defeasibility The Limits Between Ductile Law and Arbitrary Law.- Punishment and Communication in the Post Truth Society.- Presumption of innocence and pre-trial detention in the light of Directive (EU) 2016/343.-Part III: Expansion and Trivializacion of Criminal Law in the Democratic Constitutional State.- Criminal Law Protection of Competition: An Instance of Punitive Excess?.- The Impact of Soft law on the Expansion of Criminal Law.- Contentious Politics and Penal Expansion in Spain:  A Decade of Criminalization of Protest.- Ceilings for the criminal liability of Internet Service Providers.- Part IV: Paradigm of Danger and Security in the Criminal Law in the Democratic Constitutional State.- Why do They Call it ´Dangerousness´ When They Mean ´Risk Assessment? Using Risk Assessment in the Spanish Criminal Justice System.- Criminal Law of Security: Serious Crime and Visibility.