Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-10-2017
Abstract
The Government of Somalia and the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) jointly commissioned the drafting of a modern criminal code for Somalia that embodies fundamental Islamic principles. The proposed code developed by the Criminal Law Research Group in cooperation with the major Somali players of the criminal justice process is a modern and comprehensive penal code incorporating numerous cutting-edge innovations in drafting forms, code structure, and criminal law doctrine. It is also the first and only such code incorporating the major tenets and principles of Islamic law as currently practiced in Somalia. This two-volume report to the Somali Working Group includes a proposed draft text, draft commentary, summary grading table, milestone grading table, as well as conversion tables from the current law sections to the draft code sections and vice versa.
Keywords
Federal Republic of Somalia, Shari’a, Islamic criminal law, Muslim, International Development Law Organization, sentencing guidelines, criminal law and procedure, grading offenses
Repository Citation
Robinson, Paul H. and Research Group, Criminal Law, "Draft Report of the Somali Criminal Law Recodification Initiative" (2017). All Faculty Scholarship. 1739.
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_scholarship/1739
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