title: The Evolution, Effectiveness, and Limitations of Principle of Legality: An Analytical Study
abstract: The principle of legality has great significance in criminal law. The principle fundamentally evinces no punishment without Penal laws. With this purpose, this article endeavours to critically analyse the historical discourse of the principle to highlight its significance after World War II in the Nuremberg trials. This article inspects the reasons which German jurists criticise the effectiveness and retrospective nature of the punishment of the principle. To this end, this article surveys the p
journal: Pakistan Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences