The International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences (ISISC), located in Siracusa, Italy, organized and hosted its 7th Specialization Course in International Criminal Law, II Summer School of Palermo University and Munich University, from October 25th–November 3rd, 2007. The course was held in Siracusa and sponsored by the University of Palermo, Faculty of Law (Italy); the University of Munich, Faculty of Law (Germany); and the Association Internationale de Droit Pénal (AIDP). The Course was also organized in partnership with the following universities and Scientific institutes:
- Consejo General del Poder Judicial de España, Spain
- Fundaciòn Instituto Universitario de Investigaciòn José Ortega, Spain;
- Institute for Legal Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Science, Hungary;
- Law Institute, Lithuania;
- National Institute of Criminology, Romania;
- University of Catania, Italy;
- University of Ferrara, Italy;
- University of the Basque Country, Spain;
- University of Thessaloniki, Greece;
- University of Tilburg, The Nederlands.
The Specialization Course was attended by forty-nine participants from all over the world, including Europe, North America, South America, North Africa and Oceania. English was the official language of the course. Participants were selected among recent law graduates, practitioners, academics or students, currently pursuing higher education or careers in the fields of international criminal law and European law. Twenty-one different countries were represented among the participants involved in the Specialization Course. The course was taught and attended by seventeen distinguished faculty members and judges.
The Specialization Course consisted of two parts, which included all day lecture sessions that were followed by the presentation of practical cases. At the end, all the participants attended 19 working sessions for a total of 42 actual academic contact hours. The lectures involved the following topics:
- Panel Discussion: Problems and Perspectives of the European Reform Treaty
- Perspectives of the Reform Plans and possible Alternatives)
- Charter of Fundamental Rights and Criminal Law)
- Normative Instruments between First and Third Pillar of EU
- Common Standards of Criminal Offences and Penalties
- Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege between European Law and national law
- Responsibility of Legal Persons for Criminal Offences
- The judicial control of human rights protection by the European Court of Human Rights
- Protection of EU Financial Interests
- Protection against Environmental Crimes
- Protection of Euro and of Economic Markets
- Countering Terrorism and Organized Crime
- Procedural Guarantees and ne bis in idem
- Fighting Illegal Proceeds: Money Laundering and Confiscation
- From traditional models of judicial assistance to the principle of mutual recognition: new developments of the actual paradigma of the cooperation in penal matter
- The reception of the European Arrest Warrant within the European Union
- Normative instruments and criminal policies
- Corpus Juris for the Protection of the Financial Interest Vs. ‘Europa-Delikte’-Project: a comparison
- European Common Project to Counter Organized Crime
The second part of the course involved the presentation of five different practical cases. Participants were divided into teams of five/four, and each team present their case before panels of faculty member judges, and involved legal issues that emerged in front of the European Court of Justice. Awards were given to the best two teams.
Best Team:
Ms Selma Dzihanovic (Bosnia Herzegovina)
Ms Athina Giannakoula (Greece)
Ms Cristina Morisco (Italy)
Mr Justinas Zilinskas (Lithuania)
Mr. Devrim Aydin (Turkey)
II Best Team:
Mr Jeroen Blomsma (The Netherlands)
Mr Johannes Keiler (Austria)
Mr Asim Vokshi (Albania)
Ms Carolina Spataro (Italy)
At the conclusion of the Specialization Course, there was an awards ceremony. Ms Anne-Sophie Massa (Belgium) and Mr Wouter van Ballegooij (The Nederland) were awarded with the best overall oralist award. Furthermore, Ms Tara Smith (Ireland) received a special mention as most like to succeed oralist. Every participant in the Specialization Course received a certificate in European criminal law.
A course evaluation form was distributed to the participants of the Specialization Course. This questionnaire was separated into four major areas that the participants were asked to evaluate. Generally, the following aspects of the Specialization Course were assessed:
· The clarity and sufficiency of information that was sent out about the course.
· The general organization of the course and its subject matter and sequence of topics.
· The sources and content of course lecture sessions and the presentation of practical cases.
· The adequacy of the hotel facilities, and the administration, staff and facilities at ISISC
According to the results of this evaluation, the participants as a whole ranked the Specialization Course as generally satisfactory, or highly satisfactory, in each category. |
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