Publications

Over recent years most of the criminal justice systems in Europe have witnessed a tendency to enhance the role of pre-trial inquiries. Different kinds of pre-trial measures have had a heavy impact on the fundamental rights of individuals involved in criminal procedures. The book contains a comparative study of four European countries on pre-trial precautionary measures limiting personal...

Criminal law is one of the most rapidly changing areas of contemporary EU law and integration. The Treaty of Lisbon has elevated it to a central place in the constitution of the EU, within the...

Valsamis Mitsilegas presents the Editorial to The Future of Criminalisation in Europe, a special double issue of the New Journal of European Criminal Law.

The contributions presented in this volume are the result of research activities and interdisciplinary encounters organised by the Nordic Network of Law and Literature. They focus on current...

Access to legal advice already pre-trial is an essential element of the fair trial principle. It is widely acknowledged that pre-trial proceedings often predetermine the outcome of the whole...

The Nuremberg judgment concerning the crime against peace failed to provide a persuasive argument that the convictions for this crime were in keeping with the principle nullum crimen sine lege and...

In Scandinavia, women's law was established as a distinct legal discipline in university teaching and legal scholarship in the mid 1970s. Scandinavian women's law has been mainstreamed into the...