Criminal law occupies a central role in the “prism” of human rights, given the relevant impact of trial and punishment on the personal sphere of individuals, which may be instrumentalised in the name of security claims for political purposes. It is no coincidence that during the Age of Enlightenment the main fundamental guarantees of criminal law were enshrined in human rights declarations, with an approach now widely accepted at an international level. In fact, the “dialogue” between...

Jose Luis de la Cuesta is Honorary President of the AIDP, Professor of Criminal Law at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and Director of the Basque Institute of Criminology (Spain).

Isidoro Blanco Cordero is a member of the Committee of Reviewers of the RIDP and professor at the University of Alicante (Spain).

Miren Odriozola Gurrutxaga is the Secretary of the Scientific Committee of the AIDP, Lecturer in Criminal Law at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and member o...