Criminal Law

The Criminalization of Lying:
Under What Circumstances, if any, Should Lies be Made Criminal?

Bocconi Sch. L. Student-Ed. Papers, No. 2011-06/EN by BRYAN H. DRUZIN This paper argues that lying should be a crime. In doing so we propose the creation of a wholly new category of crime, which we term “egregious lying causing serious harm.” The paper has two broad objectives: the first is to make the case [...]


On Universal Jurisdiction—Birth, Life and a Near-Death Experience?

Bocconi Sch. L. Student-Ed. Papers, No. 2009-08/EN (published in Bocconi Sch. L. Student-Ed. Papers (ed), Law & Globalization (VDM Publishing 2009)) by HELENA GLUZMAN This paper investigates the topic of universal jurisdiction, ie the supranational prosecution and repression—without the necessity of a link between the accused and the prosecuting state—of crimes of such gravity and [...]


New Perspective on Market Abuse: Outsider Trading as an Outlawed Conduct

ILSU Working Paper No. 2008-04/IT by JACOPO BUSNACH RAVENNA The following paper illustrates how the Market Abuse Directive 2003/6/EC has backed up previous legislation by contemplating a new form of outlawed behaviour which an outsider may carry out by exploiting her informative advantage. After a general analysis of the features of such conduct, relevant for [...]