Our Department fosters an inquisitive and critical approach to the study of criminal law by providing comprehensive preparation on basic principles and on recurrent themes in order to generate in the students informed insights into the fundamental concepts which are at the foundation of criminal law. The main objective is that of demonstrating how the different concepts integrate with one another into a harmonised structure which is continuously in a state of development and evolution.
During the course of their study, students analyse in detail a number of specific criminal offences which will promote and cultivate the ability of students to systematically analyse any new offences. Finally, we seek to inculcate in students an awareness and better understanding of how the rules of procedure and evidence are not just an accumulation of sterile and arbitrary precepts but are meant to ensure the realisation of the ultimate objective of the criminal trial which is the discovery of the truth and to give substance to the fundamental human rights of due process of law and freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention.