Comparative criminal law and criminal sciences
Territorial sovereignty, transnational crime, the European criminal law area and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights.
Research notebook · Studies and publications
Norm and Reality
What borders do to law, and what political programmes become when they have to be implemented.
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01 · Research areas
Two fields, one question: how does the norm hold up against reality?
Public policy and implementation
Feasibility of government programmes, coalition governance, public finance and delivery architecture.
02 · Library
Studies and commentary
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From the Engineering of Promises to the Engineering of the State
The feasibility of the Authenticity and Modernity Party’s programme for the 2027–2031 legislature
- Morocco
- public policy
- implementation
- coalition government
- public finance
- fiscal stress test
Treatise on Comparative Criminal Law. Toward a Post-National Criminal Law?
Crisis of territorial sovereignty and the reconfiguration of normative frameworks in the age of transnational crime
Commentary
This text runs counter to a teaching tradition that still presents criminal law as a finished national edifice. It starts from the major schools of penal thought to show that territoriality, the pillar of modern criminal law, is no longer enough when crime plays out across several continents and in digital space.
- post-national criminal law
- territorial sovereignty
- transnational crime
- schools of criminal thought
- ECHR
- legality principle
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03 · About
The author, in brief
Researcher in comparative criminal law and criminal sciences
A researcher in comparative criminal law and criminal sciences, Hafid Boutchakkoucht studies what borders do to law, and what political programmes become when they have to be implemented. He is the founder and president of Cross Borders, a non-profit running European mobility and inclusion projects.
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04 · Contact
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To respond to a publication, or to propose a collaboration, a talk or an interview: hafidboutchakkoucht@gmail.com
Commentary
This note does not judge the programme on its intentions but on its capacity to be delivered. Its thesis fits in one phrase, the “paradox of the narrow mandate and the broad programme”: a programme designed for an absolute majority will have to be implemented by a coalition, on a limited electoral mandate and with a first budget prepared by the outgoing government.