In the EU's fast-growing Area of Freedom, Security and justice, the principle of mutual recognition should play a key rote in the field of judicial cooperation

In the European Union, international cooperation in criminal matters has grown exponentially over the past few decades. Importantly, there are a wide variety of

The European Council set out the 2007 specific program on 'Criminal Justice' as part of the General Program on Fundamental Rights and Justice. The concrete obje

Since the early 1990s, cross-border police and judicial cooperation has become a very important domain of the European Union. The Lisbon Treaty – if accepted

In this book legal and criminological scholars offer advanced analyses of the exercise of the substantive criminal law competences of the EU.