On the 1st of December 2011 the first edition of the new legal periodical ‘Thesis’, issued by the Association of the Bulgarian Prosecutors, was presented in the Palace of Justice in Sofia. The periodical succeeds the Bulletin which has been issued by the Association for many years and for the coming two years will be published with the financial support of the America for Bulgaria Foundation.
The concept of the periodical is influenced by a strive that the periodical be developed on professional bases, achieve sustainability and integrate knowledge from different areas of law an humanitarian science with the immediate work of prosecutors. It is issued in implementation of the policy of the prosecutors’ association to open the professional community towards the general public and towards other legal professions and to improve the quality of the prosecutors’ activities as a contribution to the reform in the criminal justice and in the state prosecution.
The periodical is prepared by a small Editorial team where scientific editting of analytical acticles and the administration of the team activities are vested on voluntary bases in two representatives of the Justice Development Foundation – respectively, Iva Pushkarova, PhD, and Petya Popova. That form of cooperation is implemented within the framework of the partnership between the JDF and the professional association of the prosecutors.
The work of the Editorial team is supported by a broader Public Council which unites distinguished representatives of legal science and administration of criminal justice, as well as spesialists in other areas of humanitarian knowledge (criminology, forensic psychology and psychiatry, sociology) and journalists.
The first edition of the periodical addresses issues of the judiciary reform (related to the electronic system for crime-rate monitoring and to the independence of judiciary). In its sciencntific and prasctical-science part it contains articles dedicated to:
Legal contracts and criminal liability (Stephan Milev); Specific features of the investigation of cases on property fraud (Peter Raymundov, PhD); Intellectual property contracts and computer crime (Plamen Datsov, judge in the Sofia Apellate Court); Potential conflicts with criminal law relevance between the substitute mother and the accepting parents (Stoyan Stavru, PhD, JDF); Seisure and confiscation of criminally achieved property under the EU law (Todor Kolarov, Head of the Commission for Confiscation of Illegally Achieved Property); Legal regulation of the protection of the financial interests of the EU (Hristo Hristev, PhD, JDF) and Celling and buying of votes as crimes against election rights (Tsvetana Petrova, Ministry of Interior Academy).
The event was attended by representatives of the Union of Jusrists in Bulgaria, National Union of Legal Consultants, the Chamber of Investigators, the Supreme Council of Lawyers, Open Society Institute, Center for the Study of Democracy, the Justice Development Foundation, journalists.
Additional information for the periodical is available in Bulgarian at: http://apb.prb.bg/home/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=328%3Aparvi-broi-na-spisanie-qtezaq&catid=99%3Aspisanie-qtezaq&Itemid=130&lang=bg.
