Policy Work

Policy work is an integral part of the AIDP. Members of the AIDP want to contribute to the development of a more humane and efficient criminal justice.

The AIDP uses the traditional comparative law methodology in its work. Legal systems across the globe often face the same challenges and the value of functional legal comparison is to show how the different methods and approaches adopted to meet those challenges help us to better understand the problems and to learn from approaches adopted elsewhere in the world. However, the work and the methods of the AIDP do not stop at simple comparison. By working on resolutions, the explicit aim of the AIDP is to contribute to improving the law by criminal law reform.

As a societé savante, the resolutions of the AIDP are based on independent scientific work backed by all its members. AIDP resolutions are directed to national, regional, and international lawmakers. Accordingly, the AIDP has participatory status as an independent NGO in the Council of Europe as well as in the United Nations’ ECOSOC.