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; 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

Contents
1 EU criminal law: a research handbook 1
Maria Bergström, Valsamis Mitsilegas and Teresa Quintel
2 The Court of Justice of the European Union and fundamental rights in
the field of criminal law 6
Koen Lenaerts and José A. Gutiérrez-Fons
PART I CONSTITUTIONAL DIMENSION
3 The normative legitimacy of EU criminal law: a focus on EU criminalisation 29
Irene Wieczorek
4 EU competence in criminal matters 60
Rosaria Sicurella
5 Mutual recognition, fundamental rights and the rule of law in Europe’s
area of criminal justice 89
Valsamis Mitsilegas
6 Fundamental rights, national identity and EU criminal law: an update 107
Alexandros-Ioannis Kargopoulos
PART II PROCEDURAL AND FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS DIMENSION
7 Criminal procedure in Europe’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice:
the rights of the suspect 134
Jacqueline Hodgson
8 The principle of ne bis in idem in Europe’s Area of Freedom, Security
and Justice 161
Anne Weyembergh
9 Cross-border gathering of electronic evidence in the EU: toward more
direct cooperation under the e-Evidence Regulation 183
Vanessa Franssen
10 Variety, velocity, and volume of personal data in criminal investigations
and proceedings: the limits drawn by the purpose limitation and data
minimization principles in Directive (EU) 2016/680 211
Paul De Hert and Juraj Sajfert
11 Once upon a time … Digital Rights Ireland: the never-ending saga of
data retention in the EU 228
Luisa Marin and Sarah Tas
PART III RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER FIELDS OF LAW
12 EU criminal law and its complicated relationship to the internal market 251
Ester Herlin-Karnell
13 The relationship between EU criminal law and environmental law 264
Grazia Maria Vagliasindi
14 The criminalisation of irregular migration under EU law: an evolving
human-rights centred legal framework? 294
Niovi Vavoula
PART IV EU CRIMINAL OFFENCES AND SANCTIONS
15 Money laundering 320
Maria Bergström
16 Organized crime 341
Saskia Hufnagel
17 Punishing corruption in the public and the private sector: key issues on
current EU policy and rule-of-law challenges 361
Maria Kaiafa-Gbandi and Athina Giannakoula
18 EU anti-terrorist sanctions 390
Iain Cameron
PART V CRIMINAL JUSTICE AGENCIES IN EUROPE’S AREA OF
FREEDOM, SECURITY AND JUSTICE
19 Eurojust @ 20: a successful modernization of the agency? 407
Chloé Brière
20 Europol 427
Thomas Wahl
21 The European Public Prosecutor’s Office 460
Katalin Ligeti
PART VI THE EXTERNAL DIMENSION
22 EU criminal law and EU enlargement 492
Adam Łazowski
23 Criminal justice and security cooperation after Brexit 514
Valsamis Mitsilegas
24 Transatlantic cooperation in criminal law 538
Elaine Fahey
25 The relationship between European and international criminal law (and
the absent (?) third) 554
Pedro Caeiro
26 The vital but limited external constitution of EU criminal law 576
Theodore Konstadinides