Event

Summer Course on European Criminal Justice

Objective

This online summer course over five half-days will introduce legal practitioners to practical aspects of European criminal justice.

Key topics

• The institutional framework of European criminal justice
• The impact of digitalisation, AI, and new technologies in criminal proceedings
• Obtaining (e-)evidence with the European Production and Preservation Orders, the EIO, and proposals for the admissibility of evidence and an e-CODEX system
• Mutual legal assistance and the EU’s relations with third countries
• Mutual recognition instruments – such as the EAW – under the jurisdiction of the CJEU
• Europol’s and Eurojust’s mandates and the work of the EPPO
• EU legislation against corruption, cybercrime, environmental crime and new Euro-crimes
• The rights to interpretation and translation, information, access to a lawyer, legal aid, and children in criminal proceedings
• Transfer of criminal proceedings, conflicts of jurisdiction, and the supervision of pre-trial detention, custodial sentences and probation

Who should attend?

Judges, public prosecutors, defence lawyers, police officers and civil servants seeking an introduction to European criminal justice.

Interactive Online Summer Course

The summer course will be online. You will be able to interact immediately and directly with our top-quality speakers and other participants, break out into working groups and work collaboratively on case studies and quizzes. We will make the most of the technical tools available to deliver an intensive, interactive training experience. As the platform is hosted on our own server, the highest security settings will be applied to ensure that you can participate safely in a high-quality online training environment.