The European Investigation Order: Legal Analysis and Practical Dilemmas of International Cooperation

This book is the last and final part of the project European Investigation Order - legal analysis and practical dilemmas of international cooperation - EIO-LAPD in the EU Justice Programme. It presents a contribution to the European-wide discourse on how to enhance the effectiveness and the practical implementation of the Directive 2014/41/EU on the European Investigation Order in Criminal Matters of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 April 2014 (EIO). Through national reports (Part I), the analysis of selected topics (Part II), and shorter case comments (Part III), the book's objective is to equip target groups with specialised knowledge about the cross-border evidence gathering procedure described in the Directive 2014/41/EU. Unlike other parts of the project, this monograph is targeted at the legal community, students of law, NGOs and the interested public. Its goal is to achieve a greater inclusion of dilemmas connected with the practical application of the Directive into the legal and public discourse.

Kai Ambos has a Chair for Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Comparative Law and International Criminal Law at the University of Göttingen, Germany and is Acting Director of the Institute of Criminal Law and Justice. He is Judge at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague; Advisor (amicus curiae) of the Colombian Special Jurisdiction for Peace; Director of the Centro de Estudios de Derecho Penal y Procesal Penal Latinoamericano (CEDPAL); Editor-in-Chief of Criminal Law Forum and Life Member Clare Hall College, University of Cambridge. His main research lies in criminal law and procedure, comparative law and international criminal law, with a regional focus on Latin America, Portugal, Spain and Eastern Europe.

Peter Rackow is an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen since 2018 and executive director of the Göttingen Association for Criminal Law, Criminal Justice and Criminology and their Application since 2021. After his Habilitation in 2007, he taught at the German Police University (Deutsche Hochschule der Polizei) in Münster-Hiltrup and subsequently worked as a lawyer specialising in traffic law. He is also a long-standing member of the Lower Saxony State Judicial Examination Office (Landesjustizprüfungsamt, Celle). His main areas of interest are national criminal law in the area of offences against public order and European criminal law as well as mutual legal assistance.

Miha Sepec, associate professor of criminal law, graduated in 2010 at the Faculty of Law of University of Ljubljana and later in 2015 finished his PhD in criminal law field at Faculty of Law of University of Maribor. He has published more than 150 works in the field of criminal law, international and constitutional law. His specialization is cybercrime, criminal law theory, criminal process, media law, and criminal constitutional doctrine. He is the single author of a scientific monography Cybercrime: Criminal Offences and Criminal Law Analysis, editor and leading author of the Commentary of the Slovenian Criminal Code and one of the authors of the Commentary of the Slovenian Constitution.