The International Association of Penal Law (AIDP) was founded in Paris on March 14, 1924. It emerged from a reorganization of the International Union of Penal Law (UIDP), founded in Vienna

Vienna

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 in 1889 by three prominent lawyers - specialists of the criminal law

Criminal law

Criminal law, is the body of law that relates to crime. It might be defined as the body of rules that defines conduct that is not allowed because it is held to threaten, harm or endanger the safety and welfare of people, and that sets out the punishment to be imposed on people who do not obey...

: Franz von Liszt

Franz von Liszt

Franz Ritter von Liszt was a German jurist, criminologist and international law reformer. As a legal scholar, he was a proponent of the modern sociological and historical school of law...

, Gerard Van Hamel and Adolphe Prins, which was dissolved after the First World War.

Before 1939, the leading figures of the Association were Vespasien Pella

Vespasien Pella

Vespasien Pella was a Romanian legal expert.-Legal career and opinions:During the interwar period, he promoted the notion of international criminal proceedings against heads of state found guilty of crimes against humanity, through the establishment of a special international tribunal for that...

 from Romania

Romania

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, Henri Donnedieu de Vabres

Henri Donnedieu de Vabres

Henri Donnedieu de Vabres was a French jurist who took part to during the Nuremberg trials after World War II. He was the primary French judge during the proceedings, with Robert Falco as his alternate.Donnedieu was born in Nîmes...

 and Jean-Andre Roux from France

France

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, Henri Carton de Wiart

Henri Carton de Wiart

Henri Victor Marie Ghislain, Count Carton de Wiart was the 23rd Prime Minister of Belgium from 20 November 1920 to 6 May 1921. He was from an aristocratic family....

 from
Belgium

Belgium

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, Megalos Caloyanni from Greece

Greece

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 and Emil Stanisław Rappaport

Emil Stanisław Rappaport

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 from
Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

The AIDP is the oldest global organization bringing together specialists of the criminal law and one of the oldest scientific societies in the world.

External links

• Webpage of AIDP