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SUMMARY:‘The recent debate on an EU criminal policy and the challenges r
 elated to a criminal law-centred model’ - Irene Wieczorek  PhD Researche
 r (Vrije Universiteit Brussels-Université Libre de Bruxelles)\, Visiting 
 student at the University of Cambridge 
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DESCRIPTION:Since its creation\, the EU has progressively gained growing c
 ompetence to harmonise substantive criminal law. This occurred through Tre
 aty amendments\, but also through case law of the Court of Justice of the 
 European Union. The Treaty of Lisbon has codified all these previous devel
 opments\, entrusting at present the EU with a quite wide competence to imp
 ose harmonised definition of offences and sanctions to Member States. As a
  consequence\, next to this competence expansion\, a debate has recently d
 eveloped as to what would be a suitable EU criminal policy\, i.e.\, on whi
 ch principles or criteria should guide the exercise of these wide powers. 
 Both the institutions and academics in scholarly writings have expressed t
 hemselves on the point\, some pleading in favour of a more European-centre
 d model\, some arguing that some specific general principles of criminal l
 aw should be included. In the presentation\, Irene will firstly touch upon
  the origins and the need for such a debate on a criminal policy for the E
 U\, and secondly upon its terms. She will finally provide some critical re
 flection on its most audacious proposal\, i.e.\, to also include general p
 rinciples of criminal law as binding at the EU level.
LOCATION:Faculty of Law\,  Room B16
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