Università Roma Tre

The seminar “Criminal law between national identity and europeanization” aims to examine the process of Europeanization that concerns ever more the national criminal law. The Europeization will be examined from the perspective of EU law and ECHR system.

Short program:
- Criminal Law and European Law: History of a complicated binomial

- The reflexed effects of European law on national criminal law:
- The conforming interpretation
- The principle of primacy
- Effects in bonam partem and effects in malam partem
- Case law

- The obligations of protection trough criminal law

- The protection of human rights in Europe

- Article 7 ECHR: a new face to the principle of legality in criminal law?
- The gradual overcoming of national "double tracks"
- The new prospects of "European criminal jurisprudential law"
- Case law

The texts to use will be indicated to the students during the lessons.