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1 Eur. Crim. L. Rev. 1 (2011)

handle is hein.journals/euclr1 and id is 1 raw text is: European Criminal EuCLR Law Review No. 1 2011 Volume 1 Pages 1-104 Editorial Tempora mutantur! Some ten years ago, criminal law still lived in the shadows of the gardens of European politics and European law. Today, thought and debate on Europe that fails to touch on issues such as the 'European influence on criminal law' or - increasingly - 'European Criminal Law', is almost inconceivable. The mean- while indisputable importance of European criminal law has not, however, been the only and decisive motive for the editors to publish a new law journal, the European Criminal Law Review (EuCLR), which henceforth, will be published three times a year. In actual fact, it is owing to other reasons that, with this first issue, we present a new forum for academics, practitioners, politicians and legislators in Europe with an interest in Criminal Law: In our view, a frustrating and indeed detrimental gap exists between a still underdeveloped scientific and political exchange on the one hand, and the importance of European criminal law issues, which can hardly be over- estimated, on the other. It is this gap which the EuCLR wants to bridge in the years to come. Deficiencies of discussion, notwithstanding a number of valuable initiatives in the past, can be identified on several levels: In the first place, there are considerable trenches between all those who deal with identical issues and problems, but in different Member States of the European Union. Secondly, communication and 'cross- pollination' between academics and practitioners dealing with European criminal law must be qualified as highly underdeveloped; and finally, it seems to us that there is a lack of constructive discussion between the actual or supposedly existing 'camps', which - inaccurately and to a somewhat exaggerated extent - could be summarised as the 'European criminal law sceptics' on the one hand, and the 'European protagonists' on the other. As a result of these shortcomings, the topics relevant to all Member States have been discussed separately, in parallel, rather than in common debates. The frustrating lack of communication between academics and the 'real world' - by no means a European peculiarity, but known to be the case in most Member States - has reached a new and threatening dimension in the European Union. A functioning academic community throughout the Union has not yet come into being. Politi- cians, police officers and prosecutors, however, already form a small but well- functioning 'in-group'. To make things worse, the 'sceptics' and the 'protagonists'

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