Eu Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters

Aims of the course can be listed as it follows:
1.Giving the students an updated, complete background of notions about judicial cooperation in criminal matters, underlining the strict relationship between the mutual recognition principle (and mutual trust) and the free movement of persons in the Area of Freedom Security and Justice.
2.Improving the students' ability to work with principles and provisions. Students will be expected to successfully apply the notions learnt during the course to practical cases, through the study of official documents of the EU and, in particular, the case-law of the European Court of Justice and of the nationals Courts (i.e. Corte costituzionale e Corte di Cassazione).
3.Developing autonomous ability to convincingly debate and to put forward arguments with respect to the subjects of the course.
4.Allowing students to acquire legal terminology skills. Students will be expected to express the knowledge acquired during the course in a coherent, well-argued fashion as well as with proper legal terminology.
5.Improving the students' ability to learn, in autonomy, new notions, in order to further develop and update their knowledge of EU criminal law, by applying the legislative framework as well as the relevant case-law, also at a national level.
6.Giving students notions which can be helpful in a multi-disciplinary prospective;
7.Developing a complete background of knowledge and competences for professional careers, especially for those which deals with Criminal Law.

By the end of the course, students will be expected to have acquired: (i) an adequate knowledge and understanding of the European integration process and of the rules and principles which regulate the judicial cooperation in criminal matters between the EU Member States; (ii) the ability to work with principles and legal rules, as well as to apply the notions learnt to practical cases; (iii) the ability to interpret the legal rules studied and to take properly argued and legally sound positions on the subjects of the course; (iv) a deep knowledge of the legal terminology related to the matter of the course; (v) the basic skills to further develop and update their knowledge of EU law, especially in the field of the course.