Facilitating Judicial Cooperation in the EU

Giulia Lasagni, Assistant Professor in Criminal Procedure at the University of Bologna. She has extensively published on European criminal justice and its relationship with technological development, including Banking Supervision and Criminal Investigation. Comparing the EU and US Experiences (Springer/Giappichelli, 2019). She coordinated as Principal Investigator the FACILEX project that based the research of the present volume. Giuseppe Contissa, Associate Professor in Legal Informatics and IT Law at the University of Bologna. He has published extensively on AI and law, computable models of legal reasoning and knowledge, including Digital Technologies and the Law (Giappichelli, 2024). Michele Caianiello, Full Professor in Criminal Procedure at the University of Bologna and Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice. He has published three monographs and several articles on crucial topics of criminal justice, especially from comparative and supranational perspectives.

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroductionGiulia Lasagni, Giuseppe Contissa and Michele Caianiello1 Effective Rights and Remedies in the Computable Era: Facing Informative Asymmetry When AI Adds to Transnational CooperationGiulia Lasagni and Giuseppe Contissa2 International Judicial Cooperation and the EU Principle of Mutual Recognition – towards a Convergence of Systems?Michele Caianiello3 Large Language Models in the Justice DomainGiuseppe Contissa and Galileo Sartor4 Bulgaria: the EAW, EIO and Regulation 1805/2018 in the Bulgarian Legislation and Case LawMiroslava Manolova and Ekaterina Salkova5 Croatia: Effective Enforcement of Mutual Recognition Instruments in Croatia and Cases Exposing Political Influences on EU Judicial CooperationZlata Đurđević, Elizabeta Ivičević Karas, Marin Bonačić and Zoran Burić6 France: Cooperation in Criminal Matters between Mutual Recognition and Protection of Fundamental Rights – the Contribution of FranceEleonora Cervellera7 Germany: a Clash of Systems between EU Mutual Legal Assistance Instruments and National LawAnna Albrecht and Anne Schneider8 Italy: the EU Criminal Cooperation Instruments at the Test in Italy – Procedures and Critical ProfilesIsadora Neroni Rezende, Antonio Pugliese, Nicolò Gibelli and Anna Piovan9 Poland: European Arrest Warrant, European Investigation Order and Freezing and Confiscation Orders – Implementation and Transposition Process and Its DeficienciesWojciech Jasiński, Karolina Kremens and Agnieszka Frąckowiak-Adamska10 Portugal: Recognition of European Warrants and Cooperation Orders in Law and PracticeMiguel João Costa, Raquel Cardoso, António Vaz de Castro and Pedro Caeiro11 Spain: Critical Profiles in the Transposition of European Orders in Criminal MattersAna Maria Neira Pena12 The Netherlands: Implementation and Application of the European Arrest Warrant, European Investigation Order, and Freezing and Confiscation orders in the NetherlandsCamila Ugaz Heudebert, Teddy Zwackhalen, Gijs van Dijck and Menno Dolman13 Comparative RemarksGiulia Lasagni, Michele Caianiello and Isadora Neroni Rezende14 Piercing the Veil of Ignorance of Fundamental Rights Protection. What Is Transnational in EU Judicial Cooperation?Mariavittoria Catanzariti15 Mutual Recognition and Double Criminality in EAW: Comparative Challenges and Future ProspectsAlessandra Santangelo16 Access to Justice through AIMarco Billi and Alessandro Parenti17 Harmonizing Legal Terminology and Case Law Retrieval in European and National LegislationDavide Audrito, Ivan Spada, Rachele Mignone, Emilio Sulis, Luigi Di Caro, Eduard-Raul Kontos and Rohan NandaConclusionGiulia Lasagni and Giuseppe Contissa