Publications
by Ester HERLIN-KARNELL - article
What principles drive (or should drive) European criminal law?
The entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty has changed the framework and possibilities of the development of European Union (EU) criminal law. Gone is the long-lived and awkward cross-pillar character of EU criminal law, as mainly a third pillar EU ‘intergovernmental’ issue but also partly a first (EC) pillar question. The Lisbon Treaty marks a new era for the criminal law as it brings it...
by Carlos GOMEZ-JARA DIEZ - article
Models for a system of European criminal law: Unifications vs. harmonisation
For many years European scholars have engaged in a dialectic battle over whether the EU needs a single Criminal Code valid for all of its territory or if it is preferable to harmonize existing...
by Valsamis MITSILEGAS - article
European Criminal Law and Resistance to Communautarisation after Lisbon
The abolition of the third pillar can rightly be considered as one of the most significant constitutional developments brought about by the Lisbon Treaty. The Treaty has to a great extent...
by Katalin LIGETI - article
Judicial control in the system of mutual recognition – the ECJ’s Judgment in Mantello
With the advancement of integration in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice based on mutual recognition it was foreseeable that in the absence of European legislation the ECJ would receive...
by Andrew ASHWORTH and Mike REDMAYNE - book
The criminal process (4th edition)
The fourth edition of The Criminal Process continues in the tradition of previous editions in providing an insightful and stimulating analysis of the key issues in criminal processes and...
by Raimo LAHTI in Katalin LIGETI (Ed.), "Current issues of European and International criminal law: Lectures in memory of Imre A. Wiener" - book_chapter
From comparative criminal law to the europeanization and internationalization of criminal law
The present volume entitled "Current issues of European and International criminal law: Lectures in memory of Imre A. Wiener" constitutes the result of the Regional Conference...
by Petter ASP in Julian V. ROBERTS and Andrew VON HIRSCH (Eds.), "Previous convictions at sentencing: Theoretical and applied perspectives" - book_chapter
Previous convictions and proportionate punishment under Swedish law
This latest volume in the Penal Theory and Penal Ethics series addresses one of the oldest and most contested questions in the field of criminal sentencing: should an offender's previous...