European police and criminal law co-operation

This is volume 5 in the series Swedish Studies in European Law, produced by the Swedish Network for European Legal Studies. It focuses on EU criminal law and transnational police cooperation.

Against the background of the most important changes introduced by the Lisbon Treaty in the area of criminal law and police cooperation, this volume is divided into four main sections. Each section analyses some specific challenges.

The first section includes a critical analysis of the boundaries of the new criminal law competencies, as well as some more general challenges for EU criminal law. Specific focus is set on the lawmaking process.

The second section deals with EU criminal law and fundamental rights, in particular the protection of personal data and individual privacy. In this section, focus is on the implementation of EU law into national legal orders and the challenges that this process brings with it.

The third section maps out specific challenges in transnational police cooperation, in particular the important issue of sharing of information between law enforcement agencies and its potential impact on the protection of fundamental rights.

In the fourth section, focus is shifted toward networks, horizontal agency and multi-level cooperation in a wider sense within the area of freedom, security and justice.

Contents:

1. Introduction - Maria Bergström & Anna Jonsson Cornell

Part I. EU Criminal Law
2. Recent Developments in the Field of Substantive and Procedural EU Criminal Law: Challenges and Opportunities - Ester Herlin-Karnell
3. Conditions for the Legislative Procedure in the Area of Criminal Law: Before and After the Lisbon Treaty - Anna Wetter
4. European Criminal Law: Challenges for the Future - Petter Asp

Part II. EU Criminal Law and Fundamental Rights
5. Mass Surveillance and Data Protection in EU Law: The Data Retention Directive Saga - Theodore Konstadinides
6. Ne Bis In Idem in Criminal Proceedings - Alexandros-Ioannis Kargopoulos
7. Mutual Trust and Political Intentions: The European Arrest Warrant and the Nordic Arrest Warrant - Per Ole Träskman

Part III. EU Police Cooperation
8. EU Police Cooperation Post-Lisbon - Anna Jonsson Cornell
9. Council of Europe Standards on Police Data Storage and Sharing - Iain Cameron

Part IV. New Configuration and Dynamic Evolution
10. In Search of a New Lens! - Bo Wennström
11. The Dynamic Evolution of EU Criminal Law - Maria Bergström