Meaning and limits of the exception criminal

Abstract

The present paper studies the relationship between criminal law and exception. In the first part are presented the categories of legality and legitimacy, in relation to the crisis of the liberal state. The second part presents the theory of Agamben on the state of exception, seeing a connection with the legal theory of Jakobs.

Keywords

• criminal law
• state of exception
• liberal state
• feindstrafrecht