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What is Terrorism?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Arndt Sinn  and
Christoph Safferling

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The “war against terror” remains one of the most difficult challenges for criminal law, as it takes the rule of law to its constitutional limits. Eleven years after 9/11, we see that these events have led to modifications of the general structure of security laws worldwide and also in Germany. National laws have not only been extended to address modern phenotypes of terrorism and the financing of terrorism but have also been expanded to catch foreign and international organizations. Fighting terrorism can only be successful with global cooperation. The papers in this special issue were presented at the International Forum on Crime and Criminal Law in the Global Era in Beijing, and should thus be seen as part of the German-Chinese dialogue on criminal matters. As the question of how German legislation and jurisprudence react to the challenges connected to the fight against international terrorism stretch far beyond this dialogue, a special issue of the German Law Journal seems to be the perfect forum to address a wider global audience.

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German Law Journal , Volume 13 , Issue 9: What is Terrorism? , 01 September 2012 , pp. 1013 - 1015
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Copyright © 2011 by German Law Journal GbR 

References

1 See the overview regarding Germany presented by Mark Zöller, Zehn Jahre 11. September – Zehn Jahre Gesetzgebung zum materiellen Terrorismusstrafrecht in Deutschland (Ten years since 11 September – Ten years of terrorism legislation on substantive criminal law in Germany), 32 Strafverteidiger (2012), 364.Google Scholar

2 Making up the delegation were Professor Arndt Sinn (University Osnabrück) as Head of Delegation as well as Professor Georg Gesk (University Hsuan Chuang), Professor Martin Heger (Humboldt-University Berlin), Professor Bernhard Kretschmer (University Bochum), Professor Dr. Jiuan-Yih Wu (University Kaohsiung), Professor Mark A. Zöller (University Trier), Academic Councilor Liane Wörner (University Gießen), Legal Researcher Anneke Petzsche (Humboldt-University Berlin), Legal Researcher Patrick Pintaske (University Osnabrück), Legal Researcher Saleh Ihwas (University Trier).Google Scholar

3 See e.g., BGH, Judgment of 14 August 2009 – 3 StR 552/08 – reprinted in 54 BGHST 69 62 Neue Juristiche Wochenschrift 3448 (2009); see also Christoph Safferling & Timo Ide, Prosecuting Terrorism Financing in Germany: Bundesgerichtshof (German Federal Court of Justice), Judgment of 14 August 2009 – 3 StR 552/08', 11 GLJ (2010), 1292, available at: http://www.germanlawjournal.com/index.php?pageID=11&artID=1298 (last accessed: 31 August 2012).Google Scholar

4 See BVerfG, 65 Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (2012), 907.Google Scholar