Adán Nieto-Martín

The European Criminal Policy Initiative (ECPI) proudly presents this volume, which contains "A Manifesto on European Criminal Procedure Law" in five different language versions (English, German, Spanish, Italian and Romanian) as well as short explanatory articles written by members of the ECPI. The manifesto focuses on the cooperation in criminal proceedings within the EU. In the manifesto the ECPI - which was founded in 2008 and is composed of 16 criminal law scholars from ten EU member states - presents a set of principles that should guide and be observed by different EU bodies when legislating in the field of criminal procedure law. The present manifesto follows the "Manifesto on European Criminal Policy" of 2009, which focused on similar guidelines for the European legislature as regards substantive criminal law.

This book explores the emergence of an ius puniendi outside state criminal law and beyond international criminal law. The study connects with the reflections that have been made for some years in global law studies, showing how this trend also has a clear manifestation in the field of criminal law. The analysis begins by mapping out the different manifestations of this new global criminal regulation. This includes very diverse areas, ranging from judicial cooperation to the problems involved in the application of criminal sanctions in failed states, or investigations carried out on the internet. New sanctioning systems are also studied, such as the debarment regime of the World Bank or the sanctions in the hands of international sports federations. It is a question of discovering all criminal law – understood in a broad sense – that lies outside the confines of the state.