Eichmann in Jerusalem - 50 Years After: Beiträge zum Internationalen und Europäischen Strafrecht, cartea 14

Facing the EvilMaria Fernanda PalmaThe Banality of Evil or the Exceptionality of Good in Totalitarian SocietiesPaulo OteroThe Eichmann Trial: Evil as a Reaction Against Evil?Hannah Arendt, the Legal and the PoliticalAlexandre Franco de SáFrom the Total State to Totalitarianism: Carl Schmitt and Hannah ArendtMassimo La TorreHannah Arendt and the Concept of Law: Against the TraditionRui Guerra da FonsecaEichmann in Jerusalem: Between the Legal and the Political in Hannah Arendt's ThoughtEichmann in Jerusalem and Hannah Arendt's OeuvreAntónio AraújoHannah Arendt, Adolf Eichmann: Of Radical Evil and Its BanalityLuís Pereira CoutinhoThe Banality of Evil as Absence of LawMiguel Nogueira de BritoWhen Thinking Is Acting: The Concept of the Banality of Evil as a Key to Hannah Arendt's Political ThoughtThe Eichmann TrialPaulo de Sousa MendesJudging Eichmann to Render JusticeKai AmbosSome Considerations on the Eichmann CaseMiguel Galvão Teles50 Years On Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Specific Mode of Criminal Law RetroactivityReflections Starting from Eichmann in JerusalemAugusto Silva DiasThe Milgram Experiment and Criminal Liability: An Essay on the Banality of EvilCristina García PascualCan Absolute Evil Be Brought to Justice?Contemporary Experiences of Transitional JusticePablo Galain Palermo and Álvaro GarreaudTruth Commissions and the Reconstruction of the Past in the Post-Dictatorial Southern Cone: Concerning the Limitations for Understanding EvilList of Contributors

Luís Pereira Coutinho, Graduate in Law (1996), LL.M (2002) and Dr. Iur. (2008), Professor of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. Teaches Constitutional Law and Political Science. Former Assistant at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of the New University of Lisbon. Former Advisor to the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of Ministers.Maria Fernanda Palma was born in 1955. She graduated from Law School and took her Masters, PhD and Aggregation in Legal Sciences at the Lisbon Law University, where she has been teaching since 1997. She is currently Chair of Law, heads the Criminal Sciences area and is the President of the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences. From 1994 to 2007 she was a Constitutional Court Judge elected to that position by Parliament. She was United Nations Environmental Criminal Law Expert in 1994 and 1995 and a member of the Board of the Portuguese Philosophy Society in 1995 and 1996. In 1995 Maria Fernanda Palma Pereira was decorated by the President of the Republic with the designation »Grand Official of the Order of Prince Henry«. Besides her activities in Academia she is currently representative of Portugal at the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission).Paulo de Sousa Mendes, Graduate in Law (1981), LL.M. (1987) and LL.D. (2006). Professor of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. Teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedural Law, Criminology and Evidence Law. Director of the Legal Department of the Portuguese Competition Authority. Member of the Board of the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences. Held scholarships from DAAD (Munich 1986, Freiburg 1990), MPI (Freiburg 1991, 1995), and Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (Trento, Munich, Bielefeld, 2000-2004). Former Evaluator of GRECO Evaluation Team for Czech Republic (2010). Former Professor at Portuguese Military Academy. Former Member of the Supervision Committee for the Portuguese Intelligence Services and of the Portuguese Committee for the Reformation of the Penal Code and the Penal Procedural Code. Former legal expert at the Portuguese Securities and Exchange Commission.Kai Ambos: Legal education at the universities of Freiburg, Oxford (UK) and Munich 1984-1990. First State Exam in Bavaria, 1990; Second State Exam in Baden-Wuerttemberg, 1994. LL.D. 1992 and Habilitation (Post-Doc) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, 2001 (venia legendi in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Criminology, Comparative Law and Public International Law). Former senior research fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law and senior research assistant at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Acting Professor in Freiburg, summer term 2002 and winter term 2002/2003, Calls to chairs from the universities of Göttingen and Graz. Since May 2003 Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Comparative Law and International Criminal Law at the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany. Head of the Department of Foreign and International Criminal Law, Institute of Criminal Law and Justice at the University of Göttingen. Responsible for the Master Programs since April 2006. Judge at the Provincial Court Göttingen (Landgericht). Dean of Students of the Faculty of Law at the University of Göttingen between April 2008 and 2010.