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27 Crim. L.F. 1 (2016)

handle is hein.journals/crimlfm27 and id is 1 raw text is: Criminal Law Forum (2016) 27:1-2 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016 DOI 10.1007/s10609-016-9278-3 KAI AMBOS* CrossMark PREFACE OF THE NEW EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Criminal Law Forum is a renowned journal, well known in the An- glo-American world and also, albeit less so, in continental Europe. Thus, it is a great honour for me to have been asked by the former editor-in-chief, William Schabas, and one of the founding editors, Roger Clark, to take over the editorship of the journal with this issue. There is, of course, always room for improvement. The Journal, especially in recent years, has had a strong focus on international criminal law and justice. This is an increasingly important field with a universal reach, but there are also other important areas which should be covered by an international criminal law journal. First, the journal could become a forum for solid and innovative research in comparative criminal law and justice. Such research is strongly needed; existing research in English language is often limited to English- speaking (Anglo-American) jurisdictions, research on other jurisdic- tions predominantly being in non-English languages. Comparative criminal justice, in contrast to comparative criminal law, is a younger field with its special research needs. Even more strongly than com- parative criminal law, it relies on interdisciplinary methods, stemming from criminal law, sociology and criminology, but also from political and police science. David Nelken's innovative book Comparative Criminal Justice (2010) is an excellent introduction into this area of research. Finally, European criminology, differently from its Ameri- can counterpart, is often oriented toward integrating the normative perspective of criminal law and human rights into its approach, blurring somewhat the lines between comparative criminal law, comparative criminal justice and comparative criminology. In any case, relevant publications from comparative criminology are also welcome. Secondly, the journal should take a strong(er) interest in European Criminal Law (ECL). This is a highly complex and nuanced area of law, stretching, as ECL in the broad sense (referring to the Council of * Kai Ambos, G6ttingen, Germany, 31 January 2016. E-mail: kambos@gwdg.de

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