Research Handbook on EU Criminal Law

Edited by Valsamis Mitsilegas, Professor of European and Global Law, Dean of the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool, UK and Co-coordinator of the European Criminal Law Academic Network (ECLAN), Maria Bergström, Associate Professor of European Law, Faculty of Law, Uppsala University, Sweden and Teresa Quintel, Doctor of Laws, Secretariat of the LIBE Committee – European Parliament, Belgium

‘This new edition provides an in-depth and detailed analysis of a wide range of current and essential topics in EU criminal law, with a focus on recent and future developments. Covering such diverse areas as the constitutional dimension, procedural and substantive law, but also the relationship with other areas of EU law and the external dimension, the book represents an important addition to literature on the topic.’

• Contents1 EU criminal law: a research handbook 1Maria Bergström, Valsamis Mitsilegas and Teresa Quintel2 The Court of Justice of the European Union and fundamental rights inthe field of criminal law 6Koen Lenaerts and José A. Gutiérrez-FonsPART I CONSTITUTIONAL DIMENSION3 The normative legitimacy of EU criminal law: a focus on EU criminalisation 29Irene Wieczorek4 EU competence in criminal matters 60Rosaria Sicurella5 Mutual recognition, fundamental rights and the rule of law in Europe’sarea of criminal justice 89Valsamis Mitsilegas6 Fundamental rights, national identity and EU criminal law: an update 107Alexandros-Ioannis KargopoulosPART II PROCEDURAL AND FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS DIMENSION7 Criminal procedure in Europe’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice:the rights of the suspect 134Jacqueline Hodgson8 The principle of ne bis in idem in Europe’s Area of Freedom, Securityand Justice 161Anne Weyembergh9 Cross-border gathering of electronic evidence in the EU: toward moredirect cooperation under the e-Evidence Regulation 183Vanessa Franssen10 Variety, velocity, and volume of personal data in criminal investigationsand proceedings: the limits drawn by the purpose limitation and dataminimization principles in Directive (EU) 2016/680 211Paul De Hert and Juraj Sajfert11 Once upon a time … Digital Rights Ireland: the never-ending saga ofdata retention in the EU 228Luisa Marin and Sarah TasPART III RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER FIELDS OF LAW12 EU criminal law and its complicated relationship to the internal market 251Ester Herlin-Karnell13 The relationship between EU criminal law and environmental law 264Grazia Maria Vagliasindi14 The criminalisation of irregular migration under EU law: an evolvinghuman-rights centred legal framework? 294Niovi VavoulaPART IV EU CRIMINAL OFFENCES AND SANCTIONS15 Money laundering 320Maria Bergström16 Organized crime 341Saskia Hufnagel17 Punishing corruption in the public and the private sector: key issues oncurrent EU policy and rule-of-law challenges 361Maria Kaiafa-Gbandi and Athina Giannakoula18 EU anti-terrorist sanctions 390Iain CameronPART V CRIMINAL JUSTICE AGENCIES IN EUROPE’S AREA OFFREEDOM, SECURITY AND JUSTICE19 Eurojust @ 20: a successful modernization of the agency? 407Chloé Brière20 Europol 427Thomas Wahl21 The European Public Prosecutor’s Office 460Katalin LigetiPART VI THE EXTERNAL DIMENSION22 EU criminal law and EU enlargement 492Adam Łazowski23 Criminal justice and security cooperation after Brexit 514Valsamis Mitsilegas24 Transatlantic cooperation in criminal law 538Elaine Fahey25 The relationship between European and international criminal law (andthe absent (?) third) 554Pedro Caeiro26 The vital but limited external constitution of EU criminal law 576Theodore Konstadinides