Conference on Criminal Guilt as a Category and as a Principle

On Wednesday, October 29, at 10:00 a.m., in the Salón de Grados (Graduate Hall) of the Puerta de Toledo Campus at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, the “Conference on Criminal Guilt as a Category and as a Principle” will take place.

The conference will be held in a hybrid format (in-person and online).
In-person attendance requires prior registration through the QR code included in the event poster.
To follow the event online, no registration is required; simply access the following live streaming link: link.
Please note that online participation does not entitle attendees to receive a certificate of attendance.

Program

10:00 – Presentation of the book “Culpabilidad penal, interpretaciones clásicas y actuales” (Criminal Guilt: Classical and Contemporary Interpretations, Tirant Lo Blanch / Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2025), edited by Ulfrid Neumann and Carmen Eloísa Ruiz López.
Translated by Jaime Cancio Fernández.
Moderator: Manuel Cancio Meliá (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid – UAM).

10:30 – Lecture by Ulfrid Neumann (Professor Emeritus, University of Frankfurt am Main): “Aspekte des strafrechtlichen Schuldprinzips” (Aspects of the Principle of Criminal Guilt).

11:25 – Coffee Break

12:00 – Seminar: “Criminal Guilt as a Category and as a Principle”
Moderator: Jacobo Dopico Gómez-Aller (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid – UC3M)

Speakers:

• Mercedes Pérez Manzano (UAM): “The Foundation of Guilt in the 21st Century”

• Mariano Melendo Pardos (UNED): “Guilt and Awareness of Wrongfulness: Is it Necessary to Reform Article 14.3 of the Criminal Code?”

• María Martín Lorenzo (UCM): “On Criminal Excuse: Legally Comprehensible Reasons for Unlawful Conduct”

13:30–14:30 – Debate

14:30 – Lunch