The Cambridge Companion to European Criminal Law

by Kai Ambos (Editor), Peter Rackow (Editor)

Overview

European Criminal Law has developed into a complex, jagged subject matter, which at the same time has become increasingly important for everyday criminal law practice. On the one hand, this work aims to do comprehensive justice to the complexity of the matter without sacrificing readability. In order to achieve this, the book's structure enables legal scholars and experienced practitioners to access the information relevant to them in a targeted manner and, at the same time, enables less oriented readers to gain access to European criminal law. Thus, the volume both answers basic questions and offers discussion in more specialised areas. Written by experts in the field, the book offers discussions which are both of the highest academic standards and accessibly readable.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108799799
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	02/16/2023
Series:	Cambridge Companions to Law
Pages:	500
Product dimensions:	5.94(w) x 8.94(h) x 1.18(d)

About the Author

Kai Ambos is Chair for Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Comparative Law, International Criminal Law and Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, Georg-August-University Göttingen. He is also Acting Director at the Institute for Criminal Law and Justice, Director of the Centro de Estudios de Derecho Penal y Procesal Penal Latinoamericano (CEDPAL), Judge Kosovo at the Specialist Chambers of The Hague, Netherlands, and Advisor (amicus curiae) of the Colombian Special Jurisdiction for Peace.

Peter Rackow is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice and the Department of Foreign and International Criminal Law, Faculty of Law, Georg-August-University, Göttingen.

Table of Contents

Part I. Foundations of European Criminal Law: 1. European Union and European Council, special focus on criminal law Krisztina Karsai and Liane Wörner; 2. The European Court System and its role in shaping European criminal law Liz Heffernan; Part II. Purposes and Principles: 3. Human Rights Protection through the Lens of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the ECHR Noreen O'Meara; 4. Primacy, Duty of Loyalty and Interpretation Emanuela Fronza; 5. Supranational criminal law, harmonisation and approximation Kimmo Nuotio; 6. Mutual recognition and mutual trust Philipp Ronsfeld; Part III. European Substantive Criminal Law: 7. Protection of the Financial Interests of the EU (Art. 325 TFEU) Stefanie Bock; 8. Cross-Border Crimes Marianne L. Wade; 9. Further Areas Jan Stajnko, Petra Weingerl and Miha Šepec; Part IV. European Criminal Procedure: 10. Fundamental Rights Protection Martin Böse; 11. Extradition and surrender: from a bilateral political arrangement to a triangular legal procedure Pedro Caiero and Miguel João Costa; 12. Further mutual legal assistance. The European Investigation Order Lorena Bachmaier Winter; 13. Police (operational and other) cooperation Kai Ambos and Peter Rackow; Part V. Institutions: 14. Office de Lutte Antifraud (OLAF) Olivier Cahn; 15. Europol Katalin Ligeti and Fabio Giuffrida; 16. Eurojust Alejandro Hernández López and Francisco Jiménez-Villarejo Fernández; 17. A European Public Prosecutor Office to Protect Common Financial Interests: A Milestone for the EU Integration Process Silvia Allegrezza; Part VI. Perspectives: 18. Brexit and European Criminal Law Valsamis Mitsilegas; 19. Rethinking European Criminal Law Frank Meyer.