EuCLR European Criminal Law Review

This article is an expanded version of the author’s valedictory lecture delivered on the occasion of his retirement as Professor of Economic and European Criminal Law at Utrecht University on 10 March 2023, supplemented with footnotes. Its lecture...

The proposal for a Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive [CSDDD] has led to numerous questions in various legal areas. However, little has been examined so far regarding whether a breach of the obligations programme that member states...

Based on estimates, it can be assumed that proceeds from crime (‘dirty money’) that circulate in the global economy total annually approximately USD 1,900–4,800 billion. It is therefore understandable that significant investments have been...

The European Parliament Resolution of 10 February 2021 on the implementation of Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting victims (2020/2029(INI)), on the one hand, recalls that Member States have a...

If the use of criminal law requires that legislators carry out empirical tests to establish the inadequacy of other available enforcement systems and the necessity of resorting to the weapon of punishment, how can the Court impose direct...

Deepfakes generated by artificial intelligence (AI) are becoming a serious potential threat to democracy, particularly during electoral campaigns. The vast amount of information available, notably through social media, contributes to the danger of...