Research handbook on EU criminal law / edited by Valsamis Mitsilegas

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitsilegas, Valsamis, 1971- author.

Contributor:

Mitsilegas, Valsamis, 1971- editor.

Bergström, Maria, 1969- editor.

Konstadinides, Theodore, editor.

Series:

Research handbooks in European law.

Research handbooks in European law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal law--Research--European Union countries.

Criminal law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (658 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, United Kingdom : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

EU criminal law is one of the fastest evolving, but also challenging, policy areas and fields of law. This Handbook provides a comprehensive and advanced analysis of EU criminal law as a structurally and constitutionally unique policy area and field of research. With contributions from leading experts, focusing on their respective fields of research, the book is preoccupied with defining cross-border or 'Euro-crimes', while allowing Member States to sanction criminal behaviour through mutual cooperation. It contains a web of institutions, agencies, and external liaisons, which ensure the prote

Contents:

Front Matter; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Abbreviations; Table of cases; Table of legislation; Introduction; 1. The European Court of Justice and fundamental rights in the field of criminal law; PART I INSTITUTIONAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK OF EU CRIMINAL LAW; 2. The institutional framework; 3. EU competence in criminal matters; 4. EU criminal law flexibility: what lessons from the UK Protocol No. 36 saga?; PART II THE HUMAN RIGHTS DIMENSION OF EU CRIMINAL LAW; 5. EU criminal law and fundamental rights; 6. Fundamental rights, national identity and EU criminal law

7. Mutual recognition, mutual trust and fundamental rights after Lisbon8. Criminal procedure in Europe's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice: the rights of the suspect; 9. The principle of ne bis in idem in Europe's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice; 10. The fate of the Data Retention Directive: about mass surveillance and fundamental rights in the EU legal order; PART III RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER FIELDS OF LAW; 11. Is administrative law still relevant? How the battle of sanctions has shaped EU criminal law; 12. The relationship between EU criminal law and competition law

13. The relationship between EU criminal law and environmental law14. The interplay between EU immigration law and national criminal law: the case of the Return Directive; 15. European criminal law and national criminal law; PART IV EU CRIMINAL OFFENCES; 16. Money laundering; 17. Organized crime; 18. Punishing corruption in the public and the private sector: key issues on current EU policy and rule-of-law challenges; 19. Terrorism; 20. Evolution of the EU action against trafficking of human beings; PART V CRIMINAL JUSTICE AGENCIES IN EUROPE'S AREA OF FREEDOM, SECURITY AND JUSTICE

21. Eurojust22. Europol; 23. The European Public Prosecutor's Office; PART VI THE EXTERNAL DIMENSION; 24. EU criminal law and EU enlargement; 25. Transatlantic cooperation in criminal law; 26. EU anti-terrorist sanctions; 27. EU law and international cooperation in criminal matters: a tale of legal competence and political competency; 28. The relationship between European and international criminal law (and the absent(?) third); Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78347-331-2