EU-US Cooperation in Criminal Matters

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Students will work on cases relating to most popular instruments in such cooperation, namely extradition and mutual legal assistance with a focus on electronic evidence-gathering. To that end the students will analyze and apply the adequate legal framework (EU-US Mutual Legal Assistance Agreement and EU-US Extradition Agreement and domestic acts accompanying it). Given the transnational character of the course students will also have a unique opportunity to cooperate with their foreign colleagues. That will consist of conducting hypothetical cases relating to extradition and evidence-exchange between EU-US. The students will both issue requests abroad and execute the requests coming from their foreign colleagues. This exercise will not only be a chance of practicing the international procedure, but also reporting and overcoming obstacles to cooperation in criminal matters, such as double criminality, surrounding of citizens, admissibility of foreign evidence, data protection.