Includes bibliographical references and index.

European Union and European Council, special focus on criminal law / Krisztina Karsai and Liane Wörner -- The European court system and its role in shaping European criminal law / Liz Heffernan -- Human rights protection through the lens of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the ECHR / Noreen O'Meara -- Primacy, duty of loyalty and interpretation / Emanuela Fronza -- Supranational criminal law, harmonisation and approximation / Kimmo Nuotio -- Mutual recognition and mutual trust / Philipp Ronsfeld -- Protection of the financial Interests of the EU (Art. 325 TFEU) / Stefanie Bock -- Cross-border crimes / Marianne L. Wade -- Further areas / Jan Stajnko, Petra Weingerl and Miha Šepec -- Fundamental rights protection / Martin Böse -- Extradition and surrender : from a bilateral political arrangement to a triangular legal procedure / Pedro Caiero and Miguel João Costa -- Further mutual legal assistance. The European investigation order / Lorena Bachmaier Winter -- Police (operational and other) cooperation / Kai Ambos and Peter Rackow -- Office de Lutte Antifraud (OLAF) / Olivier Cahn -- Europol / Katalin Ligeti and Fabio Giuffrida -- Eurojust / Alejandro Hernández López and Francisco Jiménez-Villarejo Fernández -- A European Public Prosecutor Office to protect common financial interests : a milestone for the EU integration process / Silvia Allegrezza -- Brexit and European Criminal Law / Valsamis Mitsilegas -- Rethinking European Criminal Law / Frank Meyer.

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