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Mario Romano
Italian criminal law has undergone important reforms over the last ten years. Tax law, bankruptcy law as well as corporate law have been thoroughly amended, so that their relationship with criminal law is now significantly different from what it used to be up to the recent past. As a result, the task Italian criminal lawyers are now facing i.e. to build the scattered, piecemeal solutions brought about by this wave of new legislation into a coherent system, is a difficult one. While the reform of criminal tax law, which was adopted in 2000, deserves appreciation, the one which affected corporate criminal law in 2002 pose serious problems as to its consistency with the economic and legal system of a modern democracy. The changes made to bankruptcy law in 2005 and 2006 are also perplexing, since they have modified only the titles concerning corporate law aspects leaving untouched the criminal sanctions. At present, the distinctive feature of Italian criminal law of corporation seems to be the lack of homogeneity between its various parts, , thus making global reform proposals both necessary and desirable in order to achieve a satisfactory level of guarantees for stakeholders and citizens at large.
