This virtual course will be run by prominent lawyers and given by distinguished experts in the field, hailing from a variety of European countries, drawn not just from the ranks of judges but from the academic world too, in addition to the chief European institutions entrusted with judicial cooperation in criminal matters (EUROJUST and the European Judicial Network).
Among the teaching staff, it is the tutors who, alongside the creators of the course's subjects, stand out, as the cornerstone of the course’s methodology and those who will provide participants with personalised attention. Tutors will organise practical cases together with points of discussion in each of the main areas making up the course.
The course uses a mixed structure that combines an initial e-learning phase (March-October 2009) with a personally-attended closing session which will be given in November 2009 in the city of Seville for those students who have achieved all their academic aims.
Its content, along with its audio-visual presentations, will focus on the instruments of judicial cooperation in criminal matters within the framework of the Council of Europe and European Union; the principle of mutual recognition and its development; the bilateral and multilateral instruments of judicial cooperation in criminal matters; and studying cooperation support institutions and training in using technical tools (Atlas, Prontuario, Compendium and Fiches Belges).
It is hoped this course will enhance the mutual confidence of European judges within the Common Space on Freedom, Security and Justice, and familiarise them with the legal instruments for cooperation in criminal matters and the legal systems of other EU Member States. The ultimate aim is to promote both the mutual recognition of court judgments given in other countries and the use of multilateral instruments for cooperation in judicial cooperation in criminal matters.