Coming of Age? The European Arrest Warrant at Twenty.

Annual European Criminal Law Academic Network conference, organised by the University of Westminster and Queen Mary University of London.

The conference will take place online on Zoom. Once you book your ticket, the link to the event will be sent to you closer to the date.

If you require any further information, please contact Prof Adam Lazowski at a.lazowski@westminster.ac.uk

Programme of the Conference:

Thursday 9 December 2021

All sessions in GMT time

13:00 – 13:15 Welcome from Prof. Luke Mason (Head of the Westminster Law School) and Prof. Penny Green (Head of the Department of Law, Queen Mary University of London)

13:15-14:00 Keynote speech: Twenty years of the European Arrest Warrant – an odyssey in mutual trust to an unknown destination – Professor Eleanor Sharpston QC (Trinity College, Dublin)

14:00-14:15 Q&A

14:15-14:30 Coffee break

14:30-16:00

Panel I – The European Arrest Warrant at Kirchberg: The Role of the Court of Justice

Chair: Prof. Katalin Ligeti (University of Luxembourg)

Speakers:

1) Setting the Parameters of Mutual Recognition – Prof. Anne Weyembergh (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

2) Urgent Preliminary Ruling Procedure in Practice – Prof. Sara Iglesias Sánchez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

3) Creating a Conceptual Level-Playing Field: Autonomous Concepts – Prof. Valsamis Mitsilegas (Queen Mary University of London)

16:00-16:15

Coffee break

16:15-17:45

Panel II – Fundamental Rights and the European Arrest Warrant

Chair: Prof. Sabine Gless (Universität Basel)

Speakers:

1) Harmonisation in the field of Defence Rights – Prof. Silvia Allegrezza (University of Luxembourg)

1) Fundamental Rights in the Operation of the European Arrest Warrant – Prof. Pedro Caeiro (Universidade de Coimbra)

2) Rule of Law Crisis and the European Arrest Warrant: is this the End of Mutual – Prof. Dimitry Vladimirovich Kochenov (Central European University)

Friday 10 December 2021

All sessions in GMT time

11:00-13:00

Panel III – Constitutional principles of the Member States, national diversity, and the

European Arrest Warrant

Chair: Prof. Araceli Turmo (Université de Nantes)

Speakers:

1) The EAW and National Constitutional Identity- the approach of German Constitutional Court – Prof. Frank Meyer (Universität Zürich)

2) Constitutional Identity in European Criminal Law- from Melloni to Taricco - Prof. Rosaria Sicurella (Università di Catania)

3) Dual Criminality – Prof. Marta Muñoz de Morales Romero (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha)

4) Judicial Independence and the European Arrest Warrant – Dr Leandro Mancano (University of Edinburgh)

13.00-13.30

Lunch

13.30-15:30

Panel V – External Dimension of the European Arrest Warrant

Chair: Prof. Robert Kert (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien)

Speakers:

1) Post-Brexit Arrest Warrant Modus Operandi – Prof. Adam Lazowski (University of Westminster)

2) Norway Arrest Warrant in Operation – Dr. Annika Suominen (Stockholmsuniversitet)

3) Pre-accession Policy as a Vehicle for building the Mutual Trust – Dr. Marloes Spreeuw (University of Westminster)

4) Extradition to third countries: Petruhhin and follow up case-law – Dr Miguel João Costa (Advisor at the Constitutional Court of Portugal; Guest Lecturer at Faculty of Law, UCILeR, Univ Coimbra)

The End