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Nullum crimen sine lege
Anton Vasilescu edited this page May 9, 2023
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Nullum crimen sine legeis latin for "no crime without law."
Nullum crimen sine**legeis the principle in criminal law and international criminal law that a person cannot or should not face criminal punishment except for an act that was criminalized by law before he/she performed the act. This idea is also manifested in laws that require criminal acts to be publicized in unambiguous statutory text.
Nullum crimen sine legeis sometimes called the legality principle. It is also interchangable with "nullum poena sine lege," which translates to "no punishment without law".
For more on nullum crimen sine lege, see this Statute Law Review article, this Journal of International Criminal Justice article, and this Georgetown Law Journal article.