This fourth edition explains European criminal law as a multi-level field of law, in which the EU has a normative influence on all criminal proceedings, but also on aspects of substantive criminal law and on the co-operation between Member States. It analyses the contours of the emerging criminal justice system of the EU and presents a coherent picture of the legislation enacted, the case law on EU level and its influence on the national crimi...

This fifty-fifth volume of annotated leading case law of international criminal tribunals contains the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 (2011-2012).

This fifty-fourth volume of annotated leading case law of international criminal tribunals contains the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 (2009-2011).

This book outlines in an accessible manner the wide-ranging and revolutionary development of one of the most crucial and dynamic EU policy areas since the Maastricht Treaty: that of police and judicial cooperation between its Member States. It examines the subject in light of burning issues surrounding migration, terrorism and, of course, Brexit.

Volume I addresses the legal question of to which extent domestic initiatives involving the regulation of cannabis cultivation for recreational use are compatible with the relevant UN narcotic drugs conventions and European Union law. Volume II takes an innovative approach to this issue and approaches the possibility for regulation of cannabis for recreational use from the perspective of positive human rights obligations.

This study addresses the legal question of to which extent domestic initiatives involving the regulation of cannabis cultivation for recreational use are compatible with the relevant UN narcotic drugs conventions and European Union law.

This study takes an innovative approach to this issue and approaches the possibility for regulation of cannabis for recreational use from the perspective of positive human rights obligations.

In dit boek wordt deze vreedzame revolutie behandeld in functie van de actieprogramma’s (het Brussels Programma, het Tampere Programma, het Haags Programma en het Stockholm Programma) die bij alle belangrijke wijzigingen van de constitutionele verhoudingen in de Europese Unie werden geformuleerd: het Verdrag van Maastricht, het Verdrag van Amsterdam, het Verdrag van Nice, het Verdrag van Rome en het Verdrag van Lissabon.

Through the establishment of EU criminal law, EU actors have come to influence the definition and interpretation of domestic crimes and penalties. Both the EU legislature and the CJEU define and interpret provisions of EU law with relevance for the determination of criminal liability and the prescription of applicable penalties in the law of the Member States. This influence on substantive criminal law raises questions about the limits to thes...