BA thesis – Swiss law on sexual offences
Leiden University, 2026
Une loi, trois langues, un consentement ? Analyse lexico-sémantique et traductologique de l’article 190 du Code pénal suisse
The three language versions, which are equally authoritative, are treated as legally equivalent but do not construct consent, violence and agency in semantically identical ways. French volonté and Italian volontà leave broader room for subjective interpretation, while German-language scholarship links Wille more closely to an objectively recognisable will. The terms viol, Vergewaltigung and violenza carnale also foreground different conceptual dimensions, while the syntax does not distribute the roles of perpetrator and victim in the same way across all three versions.
The study concerns the written norm, principally Article 190(1). It identifies differences in interpretation and semantic scope; it does not empirically demonstrate that linguistic differences produce different judicial outcomes.
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LL.M. thesis – criminal liability at the preparatory stage
Open University of the Netherlands, 2020
De rekbaarheid van de strafbare voorfase in Nederland: een rechtsvergelijkend onderzoek met Duitsland naar de noodzaak van verdere oprekking van strafbaarheid in de voorfase
Based on a comparison with German law, this study concluded that a further expansion of criminal liability at the preparatory stage was not necessary in the Netherlands: existing statutory concepts already gave courts considerable interpretive room to classify a wide range of preparatory conduct.
