Publications
by Alessandro Bernardi and Adriano Martufi - collective_book
Prison Overcrowding and Alternatives to Detention. European Sources and National Legal Systems.
This book represents the main output of the research project titled “Prison overcrowding and alternatives to detention”, funded by the European Commission and completed in the spring of 2016. The resarch started from the acknowledgment that both European and national legal sources increasingly associate the use of non-custodial sanctions and measures with the “pragmatic” objective of reducing...
by Claudio MATERA, Maria FLETCHER and Ester HERLIN-KARNELL (Eds.) - book
The European Union as an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
This book presents a collection of essays on key topics and new perspectives on the EU’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ). Europe’s area of freedom, security and justice is of...
by Margarida Santos - book
"Para um (novo) modelo de intervenção penal na União Europeia: uma reflexão a partir do princípio da legalidade como limite material de atuação da Procuradoria Europeia" (To a [new] model of criminal intervention in the EU: a reflection on the legality p
The present thesis dwells on the challenges, problems and perspectives of a (new) criminal law intervention model in the European Union, mostly based on the (possible) creation of a European Union...
by André Klip - article
Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters in the Western Balkan
The central focus of the study is what obstacles might exist in national legislation and practice of the Western Balkan states that might hinder or complicate the efficiency of international...
by A. Weyembergh and C. Brière - study
Towards a European Public Prosecutor's Office
This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the LIBE Committee, analyses the proposal for a Regulation...
by Leandro Mancano - article
The Place for Prisoners in European Union Law?
In recent years, a territorially unbounded power to imprison individuals within the European Union (EU) has been developing. Such a dynamic has significantly impacted on EU citizenship law, which...
by Hannah Quirk - book
The rise and fall of the right of silence
Within an international context in which the right to silence has long been regarded as sacrosanct, this book provides the first comprehensive, empirically-based analysis of the effects of...