Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
| Master in law (120 ECTS) | 6 crédits | |||
| Extra courses intended for exchange students (Erasmus, ...) | 6 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The European Union is developing a political project in the field of criminal justice, which takes place in the broader framework of the establishment of an area of freedom, security and justice. This political project has given rise these 20 last years to a considerable and important legal corpus, not only from the point of view of effectiveness but also by their effect on the evolution of international criminal law, through the adoption of new concepts and paradigms.
The purpose of this course is to study this specificity, to draw the framework and to highlight the concepts and paradigms and their actual implementation in the law in force (for example the principle of mutual recognition of the judicial decisions and its translation in the European arrest warrant or in the European investigation order).
The course will be connected with what is happening today and will give attention to the ongoing negotiations (for example the establishment of a European Prosecutor's Office).
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
To know the framework of the development of the criminal law of the European Union
To understand the concepts and paradigms which make its specificity and to be able to show the relations which exist between them in this framework.
To give the student the tools to understand the decision making process of the European Union in this field.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
This course can be taken independently or complementary to the course on international and European criminal law.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Ex cathedra course and interactive work on texts and on ongoing negotiations.
Contacts with European actors involved in a negotiation.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Face-to-face
Recommended or required readings
The reference book is : Droit pénal européen. Les enjeux d'une justice pénale européenne. Bruxelles, Larcier, 2014 (2d edition), by Daniel FLORE.
If ppt presentations are used during the lectures, they will be distributed.
Assessment methods and criteria
The assessment is carried out through an oral examination, which consists of a presentation by the student of one of the legal instruments that will be studied during the lectures, to assess the students' understanding of the issues and principles governing the matter, supplemented by more precise questions, depending on the answer to the first question.
The student may dispose during the examination of all the relevant legal texts. A list of the most useful texts is distributed at the end of the course.