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Criminal and civil procedural law of the EU

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Criminal and civil procedural law of the EU

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Anno accademico 2023/2024

Codice attività didattica
GIU0532
Docente
Stefano Montaldo (Titolare del corso)
Corso di studio
Laurea magistrale a ciclo unico in Giurisprudenza - a Torino (D.M. 270/2004) [f004-c501]
Laurea magistrale in European Legal Studies - a Torino (D.M. 270/2004)[0703M21]
Anno
2° anno, 4° anno, 5° anno
Periodo
Primo semestre
Tipologia
Affine o integrativo
Crediti/Valenza
6
SSD attività didattica
IUS/16 - diritto processuale penale
Erogazione
Tradizionale
Lingua
Inglese
Frequenza
Consigliata
Tipologia esame
Scritto
Prerequisiti

- Appropriate spoken and written English skills
- Solid knowledge of the basics of EU law (institutional framework, sources of law, relationship with national legal orders, competences, system of judicial remedies). The core elements will be recalled at the beginning of the course and some video lessons will be made available on the e-learning page of the course.

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Sommario insegnamento

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Obiettivi formativi

The Criminal and Civil Procedural Law of the EU course is framed within the general objective of the Master Programme in European Legal Studies to provide the students with an advanced cultural and technical training on and knowledge of legal phenomena on the European and international stages. In particular, the course aims at equipping the students with an in-depth knowledge of the legal regime of the system of judicial cooperation in the EU Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. This is an increasingly important subject of EU law studies and a strategic added value for the students’ professional future.

In this context, the course is closely connected to other initiatives and learning opportunities offered by the Law Department and the Master Programme, such as the Moot Courts project, the clinical programme and several complementary courses focused on a learning-by-doing teaching and learning methodology.  

Lastly, this course builds on the dynamic approach to the acquisition of formal knowledge which characterizes the Master Programme as a whole. Therefore, the course aims at providing the students with the tools which are necessary to understand and critically analyze judicial cooperation mechanisms across the European Union, even through the combination of both a theoretical approach and the practice-oriented analysis of cases

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Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi

At the end of the course, the student should achieve the following learning objectives:

Knowledge and comprehension

- In-depth knowledge of the main mechanisms of judicial cooperation in the EU and of the general principles governing them

- Ability to analyse and understand relevant legal texts (EU acts, case law, etc.)

- Awareness of the remarkable implications of EU law in every person's situation and for the student's future professional activity

Ability to apply knowledge and comprehension 

- Ability to handle a complex reasoning on EU legal texts

- Ability to apply the rules and principles of EU law to a given situation and to catch their implications

- Ability to apply the rulea and principles of EU law to oending judicial cases, ongoing decision-making procedures and inter-institutional dynamics, to take position and coprehend their effects and implications

Autonomous intellectual approach and critical thinking

- Ability to organise the knowledge acquired and to weight its importance and relevance

- Ability to understand and to personally discuss topical issues through the lenses of EU law, both in the context of a debate and in the framework of scheduled exercises

- Ability to explain the knowledge acquired, by using an appropriate legal terminology 

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Programma

In sum, the course deals with the following topics:

Part 1 - Introduction to judicial cooperation

- Models of legal assistance and judicial cooperation

- Judicial cooperation in the framework of the development of the EU integration process

- The institutional setting and the general principles governing judicial cooperation in the European Union

- The relevant EU legal sources anf their effects

- The specific features of judicial cooperation in the EU, especially compared to traditional instruments such as extradition and mutual legal assistance  

Part 2: Judicial coperation in criminal matters 

- The European Arrest Warrant (Framework DEcision 2002/584/JHA)

- The transfer of prisoners in the EU and EU extradition law (Framework Decision 2008/909/JHA)

- The transfers of "probationers" (Framework Decision 2008/947/JHA) and persons awaiting trial (Framework Decision 2009/829/JHA)

- The Directives on procedural rights in criminal matters

- The European Public Prosecutor's Office (selected issues)

- The ne bis in idem principle and the coordination of criminal jurisdictions, including a recent European Comission's proposal for common EU rules on the transfer of criminal proceedings among the Member States

- EU substantive criminal law

Part 3: Judicial cooperation in civil matters

This part of the course will be limted to selected issues concerning jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments, authentic instruments and court agreements in civil and commercial matters.

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Modalità di insegnamento

The teaching methodologies will consist of a combination of:

- traditional frontal lessons

- individual and collective analyses of legal texts and case law on selected topical issues, on the basis of syllabus summing up the relevant materials and guiding the students through their reading

- individual and collective discussions of home assignments. These assignments (3 in total during the course) will not be compulsory. They will include the drafting of different typologies of texts (blog posts, legal opinions, factsheets, reaction papers, sample CJEU judgments or opinions of Advocates general), presentations of key case-law, answers to questions on the materials provided  

- webinars involving high-profile academics, experts and practitioners on particularly important and topical issues

- small role games such as simple moot court exercises focussing on debated technical issues concerning specific mechanisms of judicial cooperation  

PLEASE NOTE that this teaching approach requires the students' timely registration to the course on the CampusNet webpage as well as to the relevant Moodle e-learning page. The sooner the students register, the easier it is to deliver adequate an timely information on the specific scheule and features of each lesson.   

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Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento

For the students who will decide to take the home assignments (3 or 4 in total during the course, depending on their overall magnitude), the evaluation will consist of a combination of:

- the professor’s individual and detailed feedbacks on each assignment;

- a final multiple choice quiz covering all the core topics addressed during the course

Each assignment will be graded and the average of these marks will be the entry grade towards the final multiple choice test. The final test will allow the students to improve their final mark, but in the event of an unsatisfactory performance reformation in pejus will be possible.

Assignments will be checked on TurnItIn to avoid cases of plagiarism and AI-supported texts. In the event of a plagiarism or artificial intelligence alert, the student involved will be automatically deprived of the possibility to take home assignments and will have to sit for the 'traditional' written exam.  

Please note that students can be engaged in home assignments and then decide to quit and choose the ordinary written final test. 

 

For the students who decide not to take the home assignments, the evaluation will be based on a written exam consisting of 4 open questions, as follows:

- 1 theoretical question

- 1 request to take position on a givenm statement and to support the position by means of approproate legl arguments

1 analysis of an excerpt from a judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union or a provision of EU law

- 1 discussion and solution of a case.

Depending on the characteristics of the questions, the time allocated will approximately range from 1 hour to 1 hour and a half.

For the purposes of the final evaluation, the following criteria will be taken into consideration:

- formal accuracy (including grammar)

- completeness of the answers

- adequate selection of the relevant arguments

- adequate presentation of the arguments (including use of an appropriate legal terminology)

- autonomous organization and elaboration of the answer

"Incorrect" solutions to the case will not automatically determine a negative evaluation, as long as the answer will be construed on a coherent reasoning, consistent with the underlying theoretical background and adequately motivated.

 

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Attività di supporto

No specific tutoring activity has been planned.

The Moodle e-learning page of the course is a key-instrument. The students are expected to enrol to the Moodle page and to check it on a regular basis.

In particular, the Moodle e-learning page will host:

- all specific information concerning the weekly activities of the course

- the compulsory study materials, listed in clear and accessible syllabuses 

- all the presentations displayed during the lectures

- video and/or video lectures

- the case law analysed during the course 

- optional learning materials

- ancillary contents (videos, links to websites, etc.)

- sample questions and short self-evaluation tests. 

Testi consigliati e bibliografia

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The compulsory study materials will be made available on the Moodle e-learning page of the course. They will consist of legal texts, case-law and open access scholarly analyses of selected relevant topics.



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Note

aa. 2023/24: L’insegnamento è erogato per:
- European Legal Studies: esame in TAF C (integrativa) - 6 cfu - 2° anno
- Ciclo unico Giurisprudenza (Sede di Torino): esame in TAF R (affine) - 6 cfu - 5° anno

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