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Obedience to Superior Order and Corporal Punishment as an Educational Method
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 July 2014
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My lecture deals with three loosely connected topics, which are treated together in German textbooks.
1. Acts authorized by law as mentioned in article 49, section 1, of the draft.
2. Acts on the order of an authority, as mentioned in article 49, section 2, of the draft.
3. Acts for the purposes of education, as mentioned in article 49, section 5, of the draft.
Initially, a German scholar would be tempted to view the provision in article 49, section 1, as redundant. From a German point of view, it is evident that someone, who is authorized by law to act in a certain way, does not do so unlawfully. One of the first principles German students learn in their criminal law lectures, is that every act permitted by statute is in effect the justification of what is by definition a criminal offence. This is derived from a principle, which we call “unity of law”. This means that there may not be any contradictions in the law, and that an act permitted by it cannot also be forbidden by criminal code.
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- Israel Law Review , Volume 30 , Issue 1-2: Reform of Criminal Law , Spring Winter 1996 , pp. 154 - 160
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- Copyright © Cambridge University Press and The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1996
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Prof. Dr., University of Dresden.
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