The European Court of Justice and international Courts

The Court of Justice of the European Union has exclusive jurisdiction over European Union law and holds a broad interpretation of these powers. This, however, may come into conflict with the jurisdiction of other international courts and tribunals, especially in the context of so-called mixed ...

European federal criminal Law

the federal dimension of EU criminal Law

For decades, the EU has developed a system of criminal justice consistent with the mixed (sometimes contradictory) tendencies embedded in its very own structure. The Lisbon Treaty consolidated some federal elements that have an impact on the future development of this area of law. The ...

The possibility of european judicial culture

In this inaugural lecture, delivered at the Erasmus University Rotterdam on 21 November 2014, Elaine Mak outlines how legal research, integrating comparative and empirical methods, can provide insights to assist European judiciaries in responding to current challenges. Two important challenges relate to the on-going process ...

La vida familiar en la jurisprudencia del Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos

una interpretación constructiva

El derecho fundamental al respeto de la vida familiar ha sido objeto de una interpretación extensiva y constructiva por parte del Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos en el marco del control que ejerce de las vulneraciones estatales como garante del Convenio de Derechos Humanos, sirviéndose ...

The European Convention on Human Rights

a commentary

The European Convention on Human Rights: A Commentary is the first complete article-by-article commentary on the ECHR and its Protocols in English. This book provides an entry point for every part of the Convention: the substance of the rights, the workings of the Court, and ...

El derecho a la tutela judicial efectiva en la jurisprudencia del Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos

El derecho a la tutela judicial efectiva en el ámbito del Convenio Europeo de Derechos Humanos (CEDH) ofrece un amplio conjunto de instrumentos orientados a la consecución de uno de los máximos objetivos de la Justicia: la efectiva garantía de la seguridad jurídica. Este derecho ...

Manual de ámbito jurisdiccional comunitario e internacional

guía práctica para abogados ante la UE y el TEDH

Este manual tiene como objetivo ofrecer a los abogados una guía práctica para el ejercicio de la profesión ante los órganos jurisdiccionales internacionales donde es más frecuente su actuación: el Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea y el Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos. Para ...

Administrative measures to prevent and tackle crime

legal possibilities and practical application in EU Member States

Criminals and persons involved in serious and organized crime often do not limit their activities to purely illegal ones such as drug trafficking, fraud or property crimes. They also invest money in legal activities and businesses, for instance to exploit there venues of their crimes ...

Judging Europe's judges

the legitimacy of the case Law of the European Court of Justice

After successive waves of EU enlargement, and pursuant to the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the European Court of Justice finds itself on the brink of a new era. Both the institution itself and the broader setting within which it operates have become ...

Negotiated settlements for corruption offences

a european perspective

EU Member States must continually review their anti-corruption policy and regulation to ensure that they provide effective, proportionate and dissuasive criminal penalties to protect the financial interests of the EU. Best practices from other countries can provide guidance. The US practice of negotiated settlements for ...

Preventing money laundering

a legal study on the effectiveness of supervision in the European Union

Money laundering is criminalised virtually all around the world and has been a law enforcement priority since the early 1990s. The international nature of money laundering, combined with estimations on the scope and the distorting effects it may bring about, make it a grave danger ...

Cooperative agreements between public authorities

the influence of CJEU case Law on national legal systems

In the last couple of decades the national administrative law of the Member States has been influenced by case law from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). One of the main objectives of this research is to examine this influence and more ...

Derecho penal europeo y legislación española

las reformas del Código Penal

Este libro aborda en qué medida el legislador español está siendo fiel en sus diferentes reformas del Código Penal al "mandato" europeo contenido en las diferentes Directivas y Decisiones marco de la Unión Europea en ámbitos objeto de armonización por ésta, tratando de destacar posibles ...

La orden europea de protección

su aplicación a las víctimas de violencia de género

La Directiva 2011/99/UE, sobre la orden europea de protección, establece un mecanismo de cooperación judicial en la Unión Europea que tiende a garantizar la protección de las víctimas de violencia cuando circulen o se desplacen por el territorio de los Estados miembros. El ...

Europäisches strafrecht

gegenwärtige rechtslage und künftige perspektiven

Obwohl europäische Vorgaben das nationale Strafrecht in vielfältiger Weise beeinflussen, gilt das Europäische Strafrecht immer noch als unbekanntes Rechtsgebiet. In dieser Studie werden nach der Darstellung der Entstehungsgeschichte die strafrechtlichen Zuständigkeiten der Union ausführlich analysiert. Dabei kommen Fragen wie das Anerkennungsprinzip, die unmittelbare Strafrechtssetzungskompetenz oder ...

Selecting Europe's judges

a critical review of the appointment procedures to the European Courts

The past decade has witnessed change in the ways judges for the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights are selected. The leitmotif has been securing greater professional quality of the judicial candidates, and, for this purpose, both ...

Europäisches vertragsrecht

Unter "Europäischem Vertragsrecht" versteht dieses Buch die Regeln, die den Rechtsordnungen der europäischen Länder gemeinsam sind: Wie kommt ein gültiger Vertrag zustande? Nach welchen Regeln wird beurteilt, ob eine Vertragspartei die Erfüllung des Vertrages verlangen, von dem Vertrag Abstand nehmen, ihn widerrufen oder kündigen oder ...

Historias del país de las hadas

la jurisprudencia constitucionalizadora del Tribunal de Justicia

El objetivo de este libro es ofrecer una reflexión sobre el estado del Derecho constitucional europeo poco después del quincuagésimo aniversario de Van Gend en Loos, la histórica decisión del Tribunal de Justicia (TJ) que ha puesto las bases para la constitucionalización del Derecho de ...

Constitutionalism of European Supranational Courts

recent decelopments and challenges

This book analyses the recent development and challenges in the evolving constitutionalism of the European area as it has been developed by interaction of the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union. This book publishes the result of ...

Europe's justice deficit?

The gradual legal and political evolution of the European Union has not, thus far, been accompanied by the articulation or embrace of any substantive ideal of justice going beyond the founders' intent or the economic objectives of the market integration project. This absence arguably compromises ...