Publications

While the focus of the European Union in criminal law over the last decades has predominantly been on the implementation of the principle of mutual recognition, the EU also further developed its influence on substantive criminal law. This book addresses the issues at stake. In the first section, fundamental questions for the development of a coherent general part of European criminal law are...

This article outlines the legal grounds which allow for spontaneous exchange of information at the judicial level within the European Union, clarifying the purposes and modalities of such...

In order to support and strengthen the interaction between judicial and police authorities across the EU, Art. 82 (2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) confers upon the...

The European Union (EU)’s current provisions on the trafficking in human beings (THB) are providedfor, inter alia, in Council Framework Decision 2002/629/JHA. The Council of Europe have morerecent...

In a ruling of 17 September 2009 the European Court of Human Rights has reinterpreted Article 7 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The two most important issues in the Court's...

This article critically analyses the recent eforts of the European Union to deal with the problem of disproportionate European Arrest Warrants.

This article deals with the question of which state, in the case of overlapping jurisdictions, should investigate, prosecute and try offences in the European area of freedom, security and justice...